"That is more likely" to be more appropriate "that they should give the testimony according to its proper manner, or else fear that oaths will be returned after their oaths." Al-Hasan said: Thus, Allah intended that the witnesses should deter one another.

Yahya said: In the view of Al-Hasan, it was not abrogated. Some people say: It is abrogated, and witnesses do not swear oaths today; if they are just, their testimony is valid, and if they are not just, their testimony is not valid. Allah says: "And bring to witness two witnesses from among your men. And if there are not two men [available], then a man and two women from those whom you accept as witnesses." He also said in Surat al-Talaq: "And bring to witness two just men from among you," and He did not mandate that the witness must swear an oath.

His saying: "And fear Allah and listen, and Allah does not guide the defiantly disobedient people," means: those who die in their state of polytheism.

Surat al-Ma'idah from verse (109) to verse (113).