Re: A sick person Interprets Bible Passage-cuts off hand!
Peace USResident and hypnotix-2000
First of all we cannot use the terms used in the Qur'an describing Allah (SWT) and those describing humans as 1:1 equally superimposable. We know that Allah (SWT) is nothing like creation so the limitations of the Arabic language in fact any language only permits us to utilise the terms as some sort of similar substitute.
Secondly has anyone thought that both the figurative and the literal are correct understandings in the case of punishment there is a Hadd to which a literal extent can be applied.
Now this man in the US who cut of his hand if he did so with the intention to prevent himself from theft, then this will be up to God to Judge. This permanent damage is one which is justified because the crime may itself be permanent damage.
The sad part about the story was the cooking of the hand, he obviously misinterpreted the Bible, it says nowhere about cooking the severed limbs.