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Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob (second from right) and officials witness a demonstration of a caning at the Malaysia Prison Museum in Banda Hilir, Malacca. (NST photo) |
I believe caning those convicted of corruption appears to be within Malaysian laws, though I and the world frown on such medieval forms of punishment.
Malaysia inherits judicial caning from the British colonial masters in the 19th Century when the Brits also punished criminals by birching and flogging, and which practice our former colonial masters have long abandoned.
But naturally we Malaysians hang on to such medieval cruel punishments because we love to hurt people.
Judicial caning is limited to only a maximum of 24 strokes but Pak Haji Hadi Awang is proposing the whipping permitted for the syariah courts to mete out for Muslims violating Islamic prohibitions be increased to 100 strokes.
And please note that syariah courts are NOT permitted to trial and punish criminal offences (which remain within the jurisdiction of civil courts) so that the 100 lashes proposed by Pak Haji Hadi Awang will only be for non-criminal cases but violations of Islamic observations (eg, khalwat, adultery, imbibing alcohol, etc).
Perkasa should note that there are two types of cane for judicial caning, the thin and thick ones, where the latter are used only for violent crimes such as armed robbery, rape, drug trafficking.
Actually thin caning already exists for illegal immigration, bribery and CBT, so other than making it mandatory and to include life imprisonment, what Perkasa has called for is not new if we consider CBT and bribery as equivalent to corruption.
As for sentencing a corrupt official to life imprisonment, why not sentence him or her to be decapitated, stone to death or have both hands and legs chopped off, and if a male offender, his dick as well.
Don't we just like to hurt people?
Hi Kaytee. Just a bit adding of info. Syariah canning is meant to be light and not injuring. One of the guideline is the can-man cannot raise his amrpit(slow-mild strokes only).
ReplyDeleteThe intention is more for humiliation and psychological punishment rather than physical.
OK I've heard about that but then why is there a need to increase the caning from 6 to 100 strokes if it's meant "for humiliation and psychological punishment rather than physical"?
Deletewhy don't we ask Pak Haji Hadi Awang?
Is the current 6 lashes, civil lashes or syariah lashes? (a question)
DeleteSyariah lashes is a joke compared to civil lashes that rips your flesh off.
Why 100 lashes? Not 90, 120 or 150? Because its fixed by the Quran. The reason the current lash is 6 is because the Brits reduced the power of Syariah courts during colonial times.
The lashes varies respectively to the crime committed. I oppose the bill not because for the sake of opposing, but as a Muslim, I want enforcement of current laws first before moving on. Especially on our leaders foremost.
Source:
DALIL PENSYARIATAN SEBAT DALAM HUKUMAN HUDUD
1. Kesalahan Zina
Bagi kesalahan zina, sebat ataupun rotan merupakan salah satu hukuman keatas penzina yang muhsan. Sebagaimana firman Allah dalam surah an-Nur ayat 2:-
Maksudnya:-
Perempuan yang berzina dan lelaki yang berzina, hendaklah kamu sebat tiap-tiap seorang daripadanya 100 kali sebatan : Dan janganlah kamu dipengaruhi oleh perasaan belas kasihan terhadap keduanya dalam menjalankan hukuman agama Allah, Jika benar kamu beriman kepada Allah dan hari akhirat : Dan hendaklah disaksikan hukuman seksa yang dikenakan kepada mereka itu oleh sekumpulan dari orang-orang yang beriman.
Sebagaimana yang diriwayatkan dlam sebuah hadis:-
Maksudnya:-
Ambilah dariku, sesungguhnya Allah telah menentukan bagi mereka jalan, anak dara dan teruna seratus kali dan buang daerah selama setahun, dan yang sudah berkahwin 100 rotan dan rejam dengan batu.
(Riwayat Muslim, Abu Daud dan at Tarmizi dari Ubbadah bin as Sormit)
2. Menuduh Zina (Qazaf)
Dalam perundangan Islam bahawa sesiapa yang menuduh seseorang dengan perbuatan yang haram (zina), maka wajib seseorang yang membuat tuduhan tersebut (Qazaf) Membuktikan kebenaran ataupun dakwaan tersebut, akan tetapi jika seseorang itu gagal atau engan dalam pembuktian, maka dia akan dikenakan hukuman haddberdasarkan firman Allah S.W.T dalam surah an-Nur ayat 4:
Maksudnya:
Dan orang-orang yang menemparkan tuduhan zina kepada perempuan yang terpelihara kehormatannya, kemudian mereka tidak membawa empat orang saksi, maka sebatlah mereka 80 kali sebat: Dan janganlah kamu menerima persaksian mereka itu selama-lamanya: Kerana mereka adalah orang yang fasik.
3. Meminum Arak
1. Jumhur Fuqaha mengatakan hukuman had bagi orang yang minum arak dan mabuk ialah lapan puluh kali sebatan. Sebagaimana diriwayatkan :
Maksudnya:
Daripada Saidina Ali bin Abi Talib k.w pernah berkata: “Apabila seseorang minum dia mabuk, dan apabila dia mabuk dia meracau, dan apabila dia meracau dia boleh berdusta (menuduh orang berzina) danhad tuduhan zina ialah 80 kali sebatan”. Dan tidak ada seorang pun yang mengingkarinya. Oleh itu ia telah menjadi satu ijma.
2. Sementara itu Ulama Syafie mengatakan bahawa hukuman had bagi orang yang meminum arak termasuklah semua bahan yang memabukkan ialah sebanyak 40 kali sebatan. Bagaimanapun baginda Cuma menyebat pemabuk dengan bilangan sebatan yang tidak tetap.
3. Sebagaimana yang telah diriwayatkan :
Bermaksud:
Saidina Ali Bin Abi Talib k.w telah berkata, “Nabi Muhammad S.A.W telah menyebat sebanyak 40 kali sebatan, Saidina Abu Bakar 40 kali dan Saidina Umar 80 kali kesemuanya adalah sunnah dan yang ini (80 kali) lebih saya suka.”
http://datomuhdasri.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/pelaksanaan-hukuman-sebatan-di-mahkamah.html?m=1
80 sebatan (di arab ada rotan?) kerana 'slander' bukan minum arak. yg tak mabok pun boleh buat perkara2 kemungkaran termasok rogol, bunuh, rompak, mencuri etc.
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