Treatment of Thieves
One would think there is no punishment harsher than being banished or excommunicated. There is even a harsher punishment in Baha’i law. One who has been banished or excommunicated can simply leave the Baha’i community and start a new life elsewhere. A thief, is not that lucky:
Exile and imprisonment are decreed for the thief, and, on the third offence, place ye a mark upon his brow so that, thus identified, he may not be accepted in the cities of God and His countries.[1]
If a thief is caught for the third time a mark must be put on his brow so that he will not be accepted in any city or country. That wretched person must probably pursue a lonely life living as a hermit until his demise arrives. Is this the meaning of Oneness of Humanity?
[1] Bahā’u’llāh, The Kitābi Aqdas, pp. 35–36.