Punishment for thivery
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My arguing with my dad, and he brings up the punishment of amputation for thieves. Is this from the quran or a hadith?
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Qur'an.
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I don't believe it means to cut off the hands either. It doesn't make sense that God would have such a brutal punishment for stealing... and not make the punishment brutal for other crimes that are much worse.
"It doesn't make sense that God would have such a brutal punishment for stealing" - You're assuming that it is brutal, morals are relative.
"and not make the punishment brutal for other crimes that are much worse." - 100% correct.
Now, if you really want to seal this whole rubbish debate held up by those who wish to keep their backwards, barbaric practices which also happen to be super-efficient at preventing theft
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SHAKIR And We prescribed to them in it that life is for life, and eye for eye, and nose for nose, and ear for ear, and tooth for tooth, and (that there is) reprisal in wounds; but he who foregoes it, it shall be an expiation for him; and whoever did not judge by what Allah revealed, those are they that are the unjust.Case closed. Hand for money? No. Money for money? Yes. People just refuse to take the blindingly clear meaning of the verses, why?
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"It doesn't make sense that God would have such a brutal punishment for stealing" - You're assuming that it is brutal, morals are relative.
"and not make the punishment brutal for other crimes that are much worse." - 100% correct.
Now, if you really want to seal this whole rubbish debate held up by those who wish to keep their backwards, barbaric practices which also happen to be super-efficient at preventing theft
Case closed. Hand for money? No. Money for money? Yes. People just refuse to take the blindingly clear meaning of the verses, why?
You are correct OPF.