Why is the punishment of stoning not applied to men in adultery crimes as it is applied to women? Is the reason for this the difficulty of proving adultery against men, or is it the deliberate attempt by Western media to portray Islam as a religion that oppresses women? And must a husband invoke the curse (mula'anah) upon his adulterous wife, or is it permissible for him to conceal her sin? If adultery is proven against the woman through mula'anah, is the prescribed punishment also carried out on the adulterous man with her, or only on her? And if the man denies adultery, is her confession and her husband's testimony sufficient to carry out the punishment on him? Or does the ruler (wali al-amr) not investigate the man's situation and suffice with carrying out the punishment on the woman upon whom her husband invoked the curse?

A man is not obligated to perform li'an (oath of condemnation) if he learns of his wife's adultery. Rather, he may conceal her act and keep her under his marital bond if she repents and turns to Allah, and he will be rewarded for his concealment of her, unless her pregnancy from this adultery becomes apparent. If her pregnancy becomes apparent, then he must perform li'an to disavow the lineage of this pregnancy from himself. If the woman performs li'an against her husband, the hadd (prescribed punishment) is dropped from her. The hadd for adultery is not carried out on a man who committed adultery except by his confession or by the testimony of four witnesses against him, and it is not carried out based on the woman's confession or her husband's statement. The widespread films depicting the stoning of women may not be reliable, and Islam has made the conditions for proving adultery very strict for both genders.