01-10-2005, 02:09 PM
Quote:<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="2312" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Well if they are going to be stoned to death what is the point in the first 100 lasings? What made Mohammed ADD this on to the Quran, and where is the explanation for this addition to the Quran? The Quran says nothing about different penalties for married or unmarried at all.
As you know, I never claimed to be “rocket scientist” when it to Islamic Theology – so let me put my two cents to respond to your query (not confusion).
God’s Final Testament (Holy Qur’an) demands punishment for only six offences, although it comdemn many other types of mis behaviour, from gambling to the consumption of pork, behaviour which is threatened with consequences in the Afterlife. These six offences punishable in an Islamic State are:
1. Murder (Qatl)
2. Street robbery (Qat al-Tariq)
3. High treason (al-Hirabah)
4. 4. False accusation of adultery (Qadhf)
5. Adultery between people of good reputation (Zina)
6. Theft of a guarded object of value (Sariqah)
The first three crimes are punishable by death. Traditional legal theory regarding the fifth crime (adultery) as justification for death by stoning under ‘certain circumstances’. Theft may be punishable by amputation, in the first instance, of the right hand.
So, in fact Holy Qur’an contain very little material concerning penal law; regulations relating to criminal procedure are seen more rare. This allows Islamic jurisprudence, which, in a humanitarian spirit, accepts certain dire realities of human life, the necessary freedom to soten the potential impact of Holy Qur’anic criminal law through delivering a very strict and highly demanding criminal procedure with very short period of statuory limitation and narrow rules of evidence.
Quote:You know, another reason why I am so bothered by this.... is that I recently had a hadith sent to me through email about how Allah had mercy on a prostitute because she gave water to a panting dog passing by. Well now isn't that just wonderful? A prostitute is saved because she gave a dog a sip water....... but a woman who makes one mistake is buried up to her neck and stoned to death.
Yes I have read that Hadith as a teenager. However, its implications are not what one ‘think’ at its face value. The true lesson from this story is – No matter how much or how long a Believer try to practice ‘Islamic rituals’ and Jihad against his or her ‘self’ – there is no ‘surety’ that he or she would be saved from the Hellfire. The Final Judgment will only depend on ‘one’s Niah’. Allah (swt) is THE CREATOR of all the creations – He may FORGIVE whom He chose.
Allah knows the best.
Wa Salaam.
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