Appendix 37
Criminal Justice
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
associated with 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 Submission (Islam) 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 Submission
(Islam), 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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