hudud
IPA: hˈʌdʌd
noun
- (Islam) The maximum punishments for certain crimes, including theft, fornication, adultery, false accusation of adultery, drunkenness, and apostasy.
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Examples of "hudud" in Sentences
- He understands what 'hudud' is all about to the Malays.
- Don't be fooled by BN trikeries when they trumped up the "hudud" cards.
- Haha. btw, if I have illicit sexual intercourse with any malay, it is not me who will be subjected to "hudud" for eg.
- So Jean will be tried acooing to the hudud which is punishable by stoning to death and Stenson probably gets off scot free.
- The term hudud means 'limit', implying the defined bounds of acceptable Islamic behaviour and the respective punishments for serious crimes.
- Apostasy is not a clearly defined criminal offense, but it is one of about six so-called crimes against God hadd, plural hudud for which the Quran sets out specified punishments, including the death penalty.
- The influential cleric said Malaysia would be better off if all citizens, including non-Muslims, were subject to Islamic law including "hudud" penalties like stoning adulterers and chopping off thieves 'hands.
- He said that although the Islamic laws fixed between 40 to 80 canings for alcohol consumption, which is recognised as an 'hudud' offence, the Shariah Court had no jurisdiction to impose such sentences, Bernama added.
- A PAS call to reintroduce "hudud" Islamic law, including the amputation of hands for thieves, created controversy and has been played up by the coalition's Chinese-based party the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA).
- An Egyptian-educated scholar, Nik Aziz said non-Muslims had nothing to fear from strict sharia punishments, known as hudud, and a lot to gain from them, especially Malaysia's large and wealthy ethnic Chinese minority.
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