Spiritual Disease and Its Cure by Imam Shams-ud-Deen Muhammad bin Abi Bakr bin Qayyim AlJ awziyyah

If the aforementioned punishments do not scare you, then take a look at the legal punishment, legislated by Allah ~ and His Messenger ~ regarding committing crimes: Cutting off the hand of the thief of three dirhams. Cutting off the hands and feet of highway thieves who attack those people whose blood and property are forbidden to violate. Flogging a person for abusing another innocent Muslim, or for drinking wine. Stoning to death, as a most horrific capital punishment, for having an illegal sexual intercourse (if the culprit is married). If the culprit is not married, the punishment is one hundred lashes and exile from his land for a year. Capital punishment (Killing by beheading) for: Having a sexual intercourse with a person one cannot legally be married to. Refusing to perform the prescribed Salah Uttering the word of kufr (polytheism) Performing homosexual acts, or performing a sexual act with animals (killing both parties engaged in such acts). And any other punishment which came in accordance with the nature the crime, in terms of its law of equality (Qasas) and as a deterent.