وَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَشْهَدُونَ ٱلزُّورَ وَإِذَا مَرُّوا۟ بِٱللَّغْوِ مَرُّوا۟ كِرَامًا
Wallazeena laa yash hadoonaz zoora wa izaa marroo billaghwi marroo kiraamaa
And those who do not bear false witness, and who, when they pass by idle talk, pass by with dignity.
Shahida does two jobs in Arabic, to testify and to be present, and both readings of this clause have been held: refusing to give false witness, and refusing to sit where falsehood is being staged. Zūr is named from a turning aside, which puts the weight on truth bent off its line. The trait is left in its general form and never narrowed to one of the two.