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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

The Killing of People Who Steal

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: A thief

was brought to the Prophet (pbuh). He

said: kill him. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book
38, Hadith 4396)

The pronouncement on the subject of killing people who insist
on stealing appears nowhere in the Qur'an and is a product of anoth-
er fabricated hadith. It is also outright murder.

The pronouncement in the Qur'an regarding people who steal is
as follows:

As for thieves, both male and female, cut off their hands in
reprisal for what they have done: an object lesson from God. God
is Almighty, All-Wise. (Qur'an, 5:38)

The Arabic term used for the verb "to cut" here is "iqtaa." This
word is the plural form of the verb "qata'a," to cut. The verb "qata'a"
in the Qur'an describes a particular mode of cutting, as we can see

from its use in another passage:
But when she heard of their malicious talk, she sent for them and
made a sumptuous meal and then she gave a knife to each of them.

She said, "Go out to them." When they saw him, they were amazed
by him and cut their hands. They said, "God preserve us! This is
no man. What can this be but a noble angel here!" (Qur'an, 12:31)
It is quite obvious here that they did not cut their hands off with
the knife for peeling fruit that they were given. We can see that the

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