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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Reading from the author's words with commentary: "And this necessitates: that completely avoiding their guidance is further from falling into that which destroyed them

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The reader: "And this necessitates: that completely avoiding their guidance is further from falling into that which destroyed them, and that the one who shares with them in some of their guidance is to be feared of being among the destroyed.
And of that: that he (peace and blessings be upon him) warned us against imitating those before us, in that they used to differentiate in the hudud (fixed punishments) between the nobles and the weak, and he ordered that people be made equal in that, even though many of those with opinion and politics may think that exempting the leaders is better in politics.
So in *the two Sahihs* from Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), regarding the matter of the woman from al-Makhzum who stole, when Usamah spoke to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) about her, he said:
Are you interceding regarding one of the punishments prescribed by Allah ? He then got up and gave an address, saying : What destroyed your predecessors was just that when a person of rank among them committed a theft, They left him alone , and when a weak one of them committed a theft, they inflicted the prescribed punishment on him . I swear by Allah that if Fatimah daughter of Muhammad should steal, I would have her hand cut off. يا أسامة أتشفع في حد من حدود الله ؟! إنما هلك بنو إسرائيل أنهم كانوا : إذا سَرق فيهم الشريف تركوه، وإذا سَرق فيهم الضعيف أقاموا عليه الحد، والذي نفسي بيده لو أن فاطمة بنتَ محمد سرقت لقَطعتُ يدها
Sunan Abi Dawud 4373Sahih (Al-Albani)
. And the Banu Makhzum were among the most noble clans of Quraysh, and it was severe for them that the hand of a woman from them be cut off, so he (peace and blessings be upon him) clarified that the destruction of the Children of Israel was "
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