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Question
Asalamolkum. After reading the hudud punishments of Allah in Al-Bukhari and Muslim, etc. I feel it's not like the Prophet and the sahabah (Companions of the Prophet) to beat up and strike people. I have always known the Prophet and sahabah to be gentle except at war. Can you explain the hudud (Allah's prescribed punishments) which many westerners attack Islam by?
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Answer
Hudud is but a small part of the Shari`ah (Islamic law) and are not by any means equivalent to the word Shari`ah, as one might see in a lot of popular literature and media pieces, especially in the English language.
*{And as for those who accuse chaste women [of adultery], and then are unable to produce four witnesses [in support of their accusation], flog them with eighty stripes and ever after refuse to accept from them any testimony - since it is they, they that are truly depraved.}* (An-Nur 24:4)
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