| Answer: No person has the right to commit a public offence
in retaliation. Theft is a public offence, and a person who commits theft can
only be punished by the State authorities. As the aggrieved party, you must
bring the matter to the relevant state forum and let justice take its own
course.
Neither Islam nor any civilized state allows people to take
the law in their own hands; the simple reason is that if this right is given to
people themselves, no one can check whether justice has been truly carried out
or not. Such a right would be tantamount to jungle law, and would therefore only
give rise to anarchy. |