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What is the punishment for a man and a girl whom he abducted with her consent for the purpose of marriage, and then she was returned without being raped?

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It is legislated to apply disciplinary punishment (ta'zir) to one who commits a forbidden act for which no prescribed punishment (hadd) exists, according to what the ruler deems appropriate. This disciplinary punishment is lifted upon repentance, according to many scholars.

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