and he also said, “Allah is Good and accepts only what is good.” 1
He said as well, “Allah is Clean and loves cleanliness.” 2

For this reason the hand of the thief is cut off, the highway robber’s hand and foot are severed, and retaliation is prescribed for blood, property, and bodily injury. Whenever the punishment can be made to correspond to the very nature of the sin, that is what the revealed Law ordains, insofar as it is practicable.

It is related of ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab—may Allah be pleased with him—that in the case of a perjurer he commanded that the man be mounted on an animal facing backwards and that his face be blackened: because he inverted the testimony, his face was inverted, and because he blackened his face with falsehood, his face was blackened in return.

A number of scholars, among the followers of Ahmad and others, have cited this as the discretionary punishment for false testimony.

Thus Allah, Exalted is He, says:
“Whoever is blind in this life will be blind in the Hereafter and even more astray from the path.” (al-Isrāʾ 17:72)

He also says:
“But whoever turns away from My remembrance will have a wretched life, and on the Day of Resurrection We shall raise him blind. He will say, ‘My Lord, why have You raised me blind while I once had sight?’ He will say, ‘Thus, Our signs came to you and you forgot them; and in the same way you are forgotten today.’” (Ṭā Hā 20:124, 126)

And in the hadith:
“The tyrannical and the arrogant will come on the Day of Resurrection in the form of tiny ants that people trample underfoot.” 3

For just as they humbled Allah’s servants, Allah will humble them before His servants, while whoever humbles himself for Allah, He will raise him,