Submission of a woman to punishment for a sin committed by her;
‘And vie one with another for forgiveness from your Lard, and for a paradise as extensive as are the heavens and the earth, prepared for those who ward off evil. Those who spend (of that which Allah has given them) in ease and in adversity, those who control their wrath and are forgiving towards mankind; Aiiah loves the good.”
(Surah Al-‘Imran; Ayat 134)
filled with envy at this privilege of the Children of Israel that if any one of them was guilty of a sin, he was required to atone himself for his sin by subjecting himself to such punishment: i.e., cutting off his nose or ear; whichever punishment he found inscribed on the door of his house. It was their conviction that if the sinner expiated his sin, he was redeemed from the sin perpetrated by him. They attached so much importance to the seriousness of a guilt that they thought that such punishments were light as compared to the atrocious act of the sinner and, therefore, enviable.
The stories of those people that occur in various books of tradition bear positive testimony to the fact that after the commission of a sin, the sinner was overwhelmed by feelings of awe and dread. Not only men, even women experienced the same feelings. It is said that a woman, who was guilty of adultery, came to Muhammad Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم. She made a confession of her sin before him, and in her eagerness to be purged of her sin, she voluntarily submitted to the punishment of lapidation. Consequently, she was stoned to death. She did so because she had a dread not of death but of the sin committed by her.
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