The principles of Islam that can be applied to improve the situation.
The ethical issue in this study case are rogue security guard who shot bank officer Norazita Abu Bakar dead before running away with RM450, 000 from the Ambank branch in Subang Jaya has been arrested in Johor this morning.
There are three ethical issues can be highlighted from this case which is:
i. Murder ii. Rob iii. Using of fake identity
All of these ethical issues will be discussed briefly one by one including the principles of Islam which can be applied to improve the situation.
i. The laws of murder in Islam.
In Islamic law, killing someone without any valid reason which enables him to kill is strictly prohibited. The Glorious Qur'an has condemns the killing of humans (except in the case of defense or as capital punishment). Allah S.W.T. went even further, making unlawful killing of a single individual human being equal to mass murder of the whole of mankind:
"Because of that, We ordained for the children of Israel that if anyone killed a person not in retaliation for murder or for spreading mischief on earth, it would be as if he killed all mankind. And who saved a life; it would be as if he saved all mankind." (The Noble Quran: Surah Al-Maidah, 5:32)
However, in general, Islamic law calls for murderers to face the death penalty. However, the victim's heirs may choose to excuse the murderer from the death penalty in exchange for monetary damages. The murderer will still be sentenced by a judge, possibly to a lengthy prison term, but the death penalty will be taken off the table.
This principle is known as Diyyah, which is unfortunately known in English as "blood money." It is more appropriately referred to as "victim's compensation." While most common...
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...sing a fake identity to fulfil own interest is prohibited in Islam. Therefore, this kind of situation can be addressed if someone does not lie to another.
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