«لَوْلَاهُ لَمْ تُقْطَعْ يَمِينُ سَارِقِ، وَلَا بَدَتْ مَظْلَمَةٌ مِنْ فَاسِقِ»
Without it, the poet says, a thief’s right hand would not be severed, nor would a wrongdoer’s injustice emerge.
Lawlāhu sets up a counterfactual cause; sāriq is a thief and maẓlamah an act of injustice. These images associate greed with transgression and punishment.
The line is forceful rhetorical hyperbole, not a factual claim that gold is the sole cause of all theft and oppression. Its point is the moral danger of craving wealth.