The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 96
96 Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra. They seek refuge in that period to support their beliefs and maintain that it is S idd i q i Sunna. In short they overlook the Sunna of Muhammad sa and begin to discuss S idd i q i Sunna. THE REALITY OF THE SO-CALLED ' S IDD I Q I SUNNA': In actual fact ' S idd i q i Sunna' is not the practice that they associate with Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra. On the contrary, history clearly negates that Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra had anyone got killed only for the crime of apostasy or that he ever had someone declared apostate and had him thus killed despite his being known as a Muslim, despite his reciting the Kalima , despite his observing of S al a t facing the Ka‘ba of the Muslims and despite his believing in the payment of Zakat. The fact of the matter is that he only opposed those apostates who, along with apostatizing, raised open revolt against the Islamic government and had driven out its governors and administrators from their regions and were extremely cruel to the Muslims and had them brutally murdered. Ab u Bakr ra battled against these wretches because these barbarians had commenced the cruelty and fighting and had started to murder innocent Muslims.