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132 ISLAM ITS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES SLAVERY AND PUNISHMENT 133
book. (11) Anything from public
treasury.
(1) Those who are seized before they have
robbed or murdered any person; their
punishment is imprisonment till they
repent or die.
(2) Those who have robbed, but have not
murdered: these have their right hand
and left foot struck off.
(3) Those who have committed murder but
have not robbed: these are punished
with death.
(4) Those who have committed both robbery
and murder: their punishment may be
of different kinds at the option of the
Qa4!. He may cut off hand and foot,
or have them then put to death by
the sword, or crucified, or kill them
at once.
iv. Highway Robbery; The punishment of highway
robbery is fixed in the Qur'an (Sura 5: 37).
The highway robbers are of four kinds;-
II. T'azir: Lit. Prohibition, or Instruction; in law it
signifies an infliction undetermined in its degree
by the law, on account of the right of either of
God, or of the individual and the occasion of it
is any offence for which 1}add or 'stated punishment'
has not been appointed, whether that offence
consists in word ot deed.
If the punishment decreed by the Qac;li is to
consist of stripes, it may be three to thirty-nine stripes.
Chastisement is inflicted on a person who abuses a
Muslim by calling him a fornicator, an infidel, a thief, a
Jew, a Christian, etc.
If a woman apostatises from Islam in order to be
separated from her husband, she is forced to return to
Islam, and receives seventy-five stripes and may not
marry another husband.
If a man commit any act of lasciviousness with a
strange woman, such as takhfirJ, he is to be corrected by
Ta'zir.
III. Qi~as, or Retaliation. The subject of retaliation is
treated, first, as to occasions affecting life, and
secondly, as to retaliation in matters short of
life. Homicide, or occasions affecting life, is of
five kinds:
(1) Qatalu'l-'Amd, or Wilful Murder, where the
perperator wilfully kills a person. Every
act of wilful murder of a person whose
blood is under continual protection,
Muslim or Dhimmi, subjects the person
who commits the crime to the fine
of Qi~a~, which consists in doing to the
person who has committed the crime
the very same thing he has done to
another, that is, shedding of blood for
shedding of blood. The punishment
is based on the teaching of the Qur'an
(Sura 2 ; 173). A father is not to be
slain for the murder of his child, but
the child is to be slain for the murder
of his parent. A master is not to be
slain for his slave. The heir, or the
next of kin to the murdered person, is
at liberty to forgive or to compound
the offence.