إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَ أَن تَشِيعَ ٱلْفَـٰحِشَةُ فِى ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ فِى ٱلدُّنْيَا وَٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
Innal lazeena yuhibboona an tashee'al faahishatu fil lazeena aamanoo lahum 'azaabun aleemun fid dunyaa wal Aakhirah; wallaahu ya'lamu wa antum laa ta'lamoon
اور جو لوگ اس بات کو پسند کرتے ہیں کہ مومنوں میں بےحیائی یعنی (تہمت بدکاری کی خبر) پھیلے ان کو دنیا اور آخرت میں دکھ دینے والا عذاب ہوگا۔ اور خدا جانتا ہے اور تم نہیں جانتے
Those who love to see indecency spread among the believers will have a painful punishment in this world and the next. God knows, and you do not know.
What the verse names is an appetite: loving to see a story travel. That puts the person who passes it on with relish inside the same sentence as whoever started it, and the punishment named reaches into this world as well as the next. The passage has already charged people with speaking about what they had no knowledge of, and it closes by setting God's knowledge against theirs — the same missing knowledge that made the talk feel harmless.