Is applying the divinely prescribed punishments (hudud) to the weak and abandoning them for the strong a greater sin than abandoning their application for everyone, as understood from the hadith: "What destroyed those before you was that if a person of high status among them stole, they would let him go, but if a weak person among them stole, they would cut off his hand. By Him in Whose Hand is my soul, if Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad, were to steal, I would cut off her hand"?
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"Disabling the prescribed punishments (hudud) is evil, but disabling them completely is more severe and greater. The does not imply what was mentioned; rather, it addresses those who disable the hudud for some people while applying them to others. And there is no doubt that disabling them for everyone is a greater sin."
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