Muslim Views

Question 1

What is the Muslim attitude to punishment and justice?

Answer 1

1. Punishment is needed to protect the Ummah
2. ‘Indeed, Allah orders justice and good conduct and giving help to relatives and forbids immorality and bad conduct and oppression. He admonishes you that perhaps you will be reminded’
   - Punishment brings back those who have strayed from the righteous path.
3. Shari’ah law - A body of laws that governs religion and religious rituals and everyday life. Its aim is to protect Islam and the Ummah. Hudud refers to punishments under Shari’ah law that advocate for ‘innocent until proven guilty’.

Question 2

What is the Muslim view on the death penalty?

Answer 2

‘Take not life which Allah has made sacred, except for just cause’

• Left: Against the D.P b/c of the sanctity of life
• Right: For the D.P b/c of the protection of the Ummah
  
  • ‘just cause’ is murder and openly attacking Islam

Question 3

What is the Muslim response to good, evil and suffering?

Answer 3

Good:Everyone is born with fitrah, a natural knowledge of right and wrong. Doing the will of God is doing good. Those who believe in Allah and do good deeds will go to Paradise.

Evil and Suffering: Some say ‘What comes to you of good is from Allah, but what comes to you of evil is from yourself’. Others say evil and suffering exist as part of God’s greater plan for humanity (al-Qadr).