Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 232
Trust and Accountability 227 light the implied beauty of this verse in its finest shades. While admonishing those who believed in him, he once warned them of their responsibilities with reference to the fate of earlier people who had transgressed before them saying: People before you were ruined because they exceeded the limits when punishing the poor and showed excessive compassion when pardoning the rich. I swear by Almighty Allah that if my own daughter, F at imah, were to steal, I would have her hands cut off. 34 The Quran leaves no ambiguity in this matter. No blood ties or personal relationship is allowed to interfere with the course of justice. The story of Hadrat Noah as and his son illustrates the point further. His son was drowned in the flood along with other disbelievers of Noah as because he too was a disbeliever of him. There is a subtle difference, however, in the incident mentioned in the tradition quoted above and the story of Noah as. Hadrat Noah as prayed that his son