Postby Gedo_Boy » Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:07 am
I'd rather be killed than spend 30 years in jail. That's "cruel & unusual punishment"
But the same people that complain about the harshness of punishments don't have any other alternatives but building more & more prisons.
I say let them come up with an alternative method of keeping order & safety in society.
There are MANY conditions that must be met before someone can have Qisaas applied to them. Someone can't have their hand chopped off if they were stealing out of hunger or extreme poverty and so on.
Allah (swt) unequivocally states that FAR GREATER life is saved by the application of the Qisaas:
178. O you who believe! Al-Qisâs (the Law of Equality in punishment) is prescribed for you in case of murder: the free for the free, the slave for the slave, and the female for the female. But if the killer is forgiven by the brother (or the relatives, etc.) of the killed against blood money, then adhering to it with fairness and payment of the blood money, to the heir should be made in fairness. This is an alleviation and a mercy from your Lord. So after this whoever transgresses the limits (i.e. kills the killer after taking the blood money), he shall have a painful torment.
179. And there is (a saving of) life for you in Al-Qisâs (the Law of Equality in punishment), O men of understanding, that you may become Al-Muttaqûn (the pious - see V.2:2).