Appendix 37
of the
Authorized English translation of the Quran
by
Dr. Rashad Khalifa
If a thief steals a thousand
dollars from you, and they put him in prison, what do you get? If the
thief has a wife and children, what is their crime?
Why should they be deprived of their
father?
The Quran solves this problem,
as well as the problems associatedwith the criminal justice systems
prevalent in today's world.
Equivalence is the Law [2:178-179]
According to the Quranic
criminal justice, the thief who is convicted of stealing a thousand
dollars from you must work for you until you are fully paid for the
thousand dollars you lost, plus any other
damage and inconvenience the theft may
have caused you. At the same time, the thief's innocent wife and
children are not deprived of their man, and the expensive prison
system is eliminated. Imprisonment is a cruel and inhumane punishment
that has proven useless to all concerned.
Contrary to common belief, the
thief's hand shall not be cut off. Thank God for His mercy and His
mathematical miracle in the Quran, we know now that the thief's hand
is to be marked. Marking the hand of the thief is stated in
5:38. The
sura and verse numbers add up to 5+38 = 43.
The other place in the Quran where "the
hand is cut" is found in
12:31.
This is where we see the women who admired Joseph so much, they "cut"
their hands. Obviously, they did not sever their hands; no one can do
that. The sura and verse numbers add up to 12+31=43, the same total as
in 5:38.
This gives mathematical confirmation that the Quranic law calls for
marking the hand of the thief, not severing it. Additional
mathematical confirmation is provided: 19 verses after
12:31, we
see the "cutting of the hand" again.
Punishment in Islam (Submission) is based
on equivalence and social pressure
(2:178,
5:38,
24:2).
The blasphemy called "Hadith &
Sunna" has instituted stoning to death as the punishment for married
adulterers. This is not God's law.
As stated in
24:2, the punishment for adultery is whipping in public; a hundred
symbolic lashes. As pointed out above, the basic punishment is social
pressure and scandalizing the criminal. Whipping in public achieves
this goal.
In dealing with murder, the
Quran definitely discourages capital punishment (2:179).
"The
free for the free, the slave for the slave, and the female for the
female" (2:178).
Due to human meanness and
injustice, many people cannot even imagine what this Quranic law says.
They refuse to accept the clear
injunctions that strict equivalence must be observed - if a woman
kills a man, or a man kills a woman, or a slave kills a free person,
or a free person kills a slave, capital punishment cannot be applied.
The Quran prefers that the
murderer compensate the victim's family. Killing the murderer does not
bring the victim back, nor does the family of the victim benefit from
executing the murderer. The compensation, however, must be sufficient
to be a deterrent for others. In Islam (Submission), the victim and/or
the victim's family are the judges for all crimes; they decide what
the punishment shall be under the supervision of a person who knows
the Quran.
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