{"id":6561,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/harsh-islamic-pnushments\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:20:58","slug":"harsh-islamic-pnushments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/harsh-islamic-pnushments\/","title":{"rendered":"Harsh Islamic Pnushments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Islamic  punishments like, for example, chopping hands off for stealing and  capital punishment for murder sound unfair to many. Can these  punishments be awarded and executed nowadays when everything is defined  by the value of acknowledged human rights, it is often maintained? Many  western countries already hold them to be unethical. Instead of these  extreme punishments that were exercised during the remote past, now  stress is laid on lighter version of punishment for any social crime. My  question is: is it against the commandmant of Allah to replace the  strict punishemtns prescribed in the law with the lighter ones even when  the offender is a professional?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>The  Islamic punishments on a few crimes are the part of the Shari&#8217;ah we  have to follow. For example the punishment of cutting the hands of the  thief is universal as is the capital punishment for murder. <\/p>\n<div>However,  they are the maximum punishments and not minimum. It means that they  are to be given to the perpetrators of the crime in consummate form. If  there are any attennuating circumstances that should be used. The  Prophet (sws) is reported to have said: &#8220;Avoid implementing the  punishments if there is any doubt.&#8221; This encourages the judge to try to  avoid sentencing the criminal if there are any flaws in the case and the  proceeding or evidence. The condtions of the offender and the  circumstances in which the crime has been committed is also studied and  considered in this regard.<\/div>\n<div>Another  important point to notice is that the Qur&#8217;an says that the adulterer  and the adltereress are flogged a hundered times. But if the criminals  are slave girls then their punshment is half. This shows that that the  Sharia&#8217;h also gives importance to the training and circumstances of the  persons involved. <\/div>\n<div>These  and other facts teach us that every instance of crime has to be  individually studied and the punishment has to be given only to those  who do not deserve any leniency. When a criminal is not to be punished  by for example cutting hand the lesser penalities will be decided by the  state through legislation. However, in case of consummate criminals who  do not deserve any lenience it would not be possible for us to mitigate  the punishment on the name of equality. The Shari&#8217;ah does not allow  that. Besides we cannot consider the rights of the criminals only and  ignore the rights of the society wich they rampage.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-12<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6561\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic  punishments like, for example, chopping hands off for stealing and  capital punishment for murder sound unfair to many. Can these  punishments be awarded and executed nowadays when everything is defined  by the value of acknowledged human rights, it is often maintained? Many  western countries already hold them to be unethical. Instead of these  extreme punishments that were exercised during the remote past, now  stress is laid on lighter version of punishment for any social crime. My  question is: is it against the commandmant of Allah to replace the  strict punishemtns prescribed in the law with the lighter ones even when  the offender is a professional?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1369],"tags":[1560,2431,1293],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamic-punishments","tag-hudood","tag-islamic-punishments","tag-punishment"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harsh Islamic Pnushments - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/harsh-islamic-pnushments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harsh Islamic Pnushments - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamic punishments like, for example, chopping hands off for stealing and capital punishment for murder sound unfair to many. 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