09-21-2003, 09:45 AM
as salam a`alaman itaba`alhoda
again HabibHibee still lacking objectivity, you r discussing a single case. You know what, I will tell u a case at the time of the Prophet peace and prayer be upon him. A woman went and confessed she committed zina (intercourse outside of marriage), and she is pregnant. He told her to go until she delivers then come back. She came back after delivery. He told her to go until she ends breast feeding time. She did and came back, it indicated her insistence to take the punishment for she feels how grave her sin was. The Messenger of Allah peace and prayer be upon him, gave the child to one of the compnions to take care of and applied the punishment. when he at each time sent her back, her was giving her a chance to not to come back. He felt how guilty she realizes herself. And to him, he thought that due to this Allah shall forgive her. See HabibHibee, punishments must be enforced, but we are not allowed to judge about Allah's mercy as well. So this is exactly how it must be done. And I very sorry to tell u that not one single Muslim country is actually applying sharia except for Saudi Arabia, u know what if they did, we would have been in a much better situation.