The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 139
139 prohibited the killing of women; and second, in essence this particular punishment requires that it may be left for the Day of Judgement. A person needs time to be tested. Killing a person hurriedly takes away that chance. Adopting this principle of justice helps prevent a trial—the trial related to war! (The chances are that she will not go back and join the ranks of enemy war machine. ) As women by nature are not inclined to wage war like men, therefore, their killing is prohibited. " 130 FOURTH ARGUMENT: Similarly, a great jurist, Imam Ibnul Hum a m (d. 681 AH) writes in his book Fat h ul Qad i r: 130 Al-Hid a yah Sharhu Bidayatul Mubtad i , by Abu’ul H asan ‘Al i bin Ab i Bakr Al-Rashid a n i Al-Marghin a n i , Part 2, pp. 406-407, Published by D a rul A h y a ’ Attur a thul ‘Arab i , Beirut, Labnan. [Publisher]