What is the religious ruling regarding someone who steals a woman's pictures and threatens her husband with publishing them in exchange for money?
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This act is reprehensible, unjust, and an assault, and its perpetrator incurs a clear sin, as Allah the Almighty says: "And those who harm believing men and believing women for [something] other than what they have earned have certainly borne a slander and a clear sin." There is no specific prescribed punishment (Hadd) for it, but the ruler may inflict a discretionary punishment (Ta'zeer) upon him to deter him and others like him. Ta'zeer is a punishment not specifically defined by , whereas Hadd is a punishment specifically defined by Sharia.
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