A Critical Review of Punishment for Thef on the Ground of Sharia’s End

According to the first clause of article 201 Eslamic penal law, the punishment for theft at first time is cutting off four fingers of his right hand. Abu-AL-Ishagh AL- shattebi believed that interpreter’s understanding of Holy Quran and tradition should not contrast with other’s main ends of legislator such as securing life, reason, Capital of , generation and religion, and also should not squandering them .Some contemporary jurists such as Abolghassem Gorji have introduced a new ground through expanding the legislator’s ends to justice and social reform. Based on this new ground, literal understanding of verse 38 Maeideh, cutting off thief’s hand is seriously under question.