For detailed discussions on the response to theft in Islam, see Thieves, give Muhammad a hand! and The Punishment for Theft.

Further aspects:

• can enter paradise even if committed theft, if does not commit idolatry, Sahih Bukhari 2.329, Sahih Bukhari 3.573, Sahih Bukhari 4.445

• cutting off hands as punishment, al-Ma'idah 5:38

  Khalifites - contradicting all schools of Islamic Shariah - believe that the punishment should be to cut (i.e. mark) their hands, not amputate them.

• forgiveness for (before discovery), al-Ma'idah 5:39

• is wrong even through the judiciary, al-Baqarah 2:188

• an-Nisa' 4:29

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