(They said: The penalty for it!) the penalty against (He in whose bag (the cup) is found, he is the penalty for it) is that he is to be taken as a slave. (Thus we requite wrong-doers) thus we punish the thieves in our land.
- 12:7575
قَالُوا جَزَاؤُهُ مَنْ وُجِدَ فِي رَحْلِهِ فَهُوَ جَزَاؤُهُ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ نَجْزِي الظَّالِمِينَ
"The punishment for that (should be)," they said, "that he in whose luggage it is found should be held as punishment. This is how we repay the wrong-doers."
- common.revelation-Meccan
- common.hizb : 97