In the name of Allah,
most gracious, most merciful.
I don’t agree with the malaysia’s punishment on that drinker muslim woman because i think the punishment is too severe, might as well the woman just jump down and die.
But since the punishment has been stated as a law in the country, then i would say go ahead.
Laws on religion holds equal standing as much Laws in any country do. you can’t say that drug trafficking can’t be hang to death, saying that it’s nt fair and they should just serve community service. so what’s the difference. I say the difference is that we people, lack of understanding, the justice in prosecuting laws and punishment, because of two reasons; 1) we are not affected internallly 2)we are not in that field to understand. Not all knowledge is for everyone, remember?
Oh, i had the same thought as many of them once; saying that the punishment bestowed is too much..but my Ustaz made me understand.
I questioned the authority of the Arabic islamic government, why they cut off one’s hands when one is caught stealing. who are they to take away Allah’s gift from a person and isn’t repentance from the person suffice?
He replied that not necessarily the person would repent because there are men, who even with chopped hands would still steal. so what repentance are u talking about? and law is law, if you know such a thing is wrong and harmful, why you still do it?aren’t u just asking for the punishment to be imposed on u?
So i finally understand.
And IF the world has same thoughts and abide the rules faithfully, the world would be a much better, peaceful and straighter place to live in. Don’t you think so?
I have such a looooooong lecture to give in the response for this, hehe. But i shall refrain.
I think there are a lot of things in Islam that do are not accoring to OUR logic of our incompetent minds but they have a lot of meaning.
Eg The words in the Quran which are only alphabets, like ta seen Mim, or Alif Laam mim, or noon. If we cannot understand it, then why should Allah send them down seeing as Quran is the Furqan, the book which guides us by ordering us the good and bad, right? So if those alphabets do not do anything then why should they be ordered.
Yet it is a part of the KalamAllah( Word of Allah)
There are many others, but the quality of the believer is “sami’na wa ata’na”
(we hear and we obey)
As for the malay woman’s punishment, I am not sure baout the punishment in Islam for that, if it is religious punishment then its ok otherwise she should also be given punishment for eing a model, openly showing her beauty in public, her husabnd punised too for allowing it…
the list goes on and on. One must prevent oneself from sins and youa re right some things, are just not our area of speciality…
Na’am. Allah knows best. =)
Firstly, as per my knowledge flogging in Islam is hitting the criminals body by Sjambok BUT making sure that the person don’t die. Like, there was a case of a very fragile woman and hitting her body 90 times would have killed her. Hence, a bough with 90 branches was selected making sure that she was hit not killed.
Secondly, I consider it setting examples. If every thief’s hands are chopped off, every murderer is hung in public, and all other laws are followed as per Islam; would anyone else imagine of stealing or killing?
True, instead of thinking of punishment and abiding rules, we should follow the laws as our responsibility.