The Messenger of the Covenant's duties include proclaiming one religion for all people and purging the corruptions afflicting Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, explaining the purpose of life, and establishing a criminal justice system.1, 2, 3
A nation upholding God's laws has maximum regard for people's lives and properties, so there is no crime against them.1
According to 24:2, the punishment for adultery is a hundred symbolic lashes in public, whose aim is social pressure and scandalizing the criminal.1
Compensation paid by a murderer must be sufficient to deter others.1
Contrary to common belief, the thief's hand is not to be cut off but marked, as stated in 5:38.1
Imprisonment is a cruel and inhumane punishment that has proven useless, and it unjustly deprives a criminal's innocent wife and children of their man.1, 2
In Submission, the victim or the victim's family judge all crimes and decide the punishment, under the supervision of someone who knows the Quran.1
Strict equivalence must be observed in murder, so capital punishment cannot apply when a woman kills a man, a man kills a woman, or between slave and free.1, 2
The mathematical miracle confirms hand marking: 5:38 and 12:31, where the women who admired Joseph cut their hands without severing them, both add up to 43.1, 2
The Quran definitely discourages capital punishment for murder and prefers that the murderer compensate the victim's family.1, 2
The Quran solves the problems associated with the criminal justice systems prevalent in today's world.1
Under Quranic criminal justice, a convicted thief must work for the victim until the stolen amount plus any other damage and inconvenience is fully repaid.1
The Quran sets the punishment for adultery at one hundred lashes for both the man and the woman, without regard to marital status, so the hadith ordering stoning contradicts it.1, 2
Even for murder, the law is equivalence and compensation, so the victim's family may demand death but is encouraged to pardon the murderer and accept compensation.1, 2, 3
For crimes so horrendous that reform is hopeless, the Quran allows banishment, of which imprisonment is a modern equivalent.1, 2
For lesser offenses, society should have the criminal work to compensate the victim rather than lock him away, which only makes him unproductive and alienated.1, 2, 3
Imprisonment is very costly, deprives families of their providers, leaves victims uncompensated, and does little to rehabilitate prisoners, who mostly learn to become better criminals.1, 2, 3
Since the Torah, scripture's law for crime has been equivalence, so the one who commits a crime must repay the victim in kind unless the victim gives it up as a charity.1, 2, 3
The punishment for theft is to replace what was stolen, and the Quran says the thief's hand should be marked superficially, not cut off as tradition holds.1
The Arabic word hudud means boundaries, referring to the parameters of the Islamic worldview, not fixed laws as traditional Shariah claims.1
Forfeiting what is due to one in retribution as a charity atones for one's sins.1
The Quran sets flogging as the punishment for adultery, and stoning, which is not in the Quran, should not be accepted.1, 2
God gave mathematical proof that the thief's hand is marked, since 5:38 and 12:31 both add up to 43.1, 2
Muslims have abandoned the Quran en masse and practice a religion that has nothing to do with Islam, giving Islamic justice a bad name.1
The Quran does not advocate stoning adulterers to death, a rule God abrogated since the time of Jesus.1
The Quran does not command cutting off the thief's hand; the word cut, as used of the women who cut their hands at seeing Joseph, means the hand is to be marked.1, 2, 3
Flogging a man for swearing at his staff is not a Quranic punishment.1
The heir of someone killed unjustly has authority to enforce justice but must not exceed the limits in avenging the murder.1
Charity is not always money; forfeiting what is due to you in retribution is a form of charity that atones for sins.1, 2
Sharia law is human made, and many who call themselves Muslims wrongly think its harsh penalties are prescribed in the Quran, showing their ignorance of the Quran.1, 2
Submission has a foundation of justice, equivalence is a life saving law, and we must hold fast to God's laws in all areas of activity.1, 2, 3
A penalty should be proportionate to the wrong done, but pardoning and settling is ideal if the wronged person wishes it.1, 2
Capital punishment is justified only in specific circumstances; without religious persecution or crimes against humanity, killing in the name of God or religion has no authorization.1, 2, 3
A thief who repents and reforms after the crime is redeemed by God.1
In punishing adultery, public witnessing as social pressure is the basic punishment, and the lashes are symbolic, not severe.1, 2
Stoning to death for adultery does not exist in the Quran and comes from Hadith; the Quranic penalty for proven adultery is one hundred lashes.1, 2, 3
The Quran does not command cutting off a thief's hand; the word means to cut or mark the hand as social pressure so the thief may repent and reform.1, 2, 3
Equivalent retaliation is the law but without excess, and patience, pardon, and forgiveness are the preferred choices, rewarded by God and atoning for sins.1, 2, 3
Reforming and changing our behavior is an important part of forgiveness, and offering rehabilitation can lead a wrongdoer to repent and reform where harsh punishment hardens him.1, 2, 3
The Quran teaches individual and collective accountability for every action and prohibits injustice, slander, and unjust rebellion, with justice tempered by mercy.1, 2
The Arabs' shari'a penalty for cutting a woman's fingers is self contradictory, charging fewer camels for four fingers than for three.1
God has made life sacred, so killing is forbidden except in the course of justice, and the Quran warns against extrajudicial killings.1, 2, 3
It is wrong for those who swear by the Quran to kill unjustly without due process or to inflict excessive punishments out of proportion to the charge.1
Quranic law provides capital punishment for murder but leaves the door open for remission or compensation if the victim's heirs wish it.1, 2
The Quran does not prescribe punishments without leniency and mercy; equivalent retribution is just, but those who pardon and stay righteous are rewarded by God.1, 2, 3