October 3
God hath imposed a fine on every adulterer and adulteress,
to be paid to the House of Justice: nine mithqáls of gold, to be doubled
if they should repeat the offence. Such is the penalty which He Who is the Lord
of Names hath assigned them in this world; and in the world to come He hath
ordained for them a humiliating torment. Should anyone be afflicted by a sin,
it behoveth him to repent thereof and return unto his Lord. He, verily,
granteth forgiveness unto whomsoever He willeth, and none may question that
which it pleaseth Him to ordain. He is, in truth, the Ever-Forgiving, the
Almighty, the All-Praised. (Baha’u’llah, ‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
