The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 97
97 HISTORICAL VERIFICATION OF THE REVOLT BY THE APOSTATES: The history books and biographies relate the crisis of apostasy and revolt as follows: 1. "This crisis of revolt and apostasy spread like fire and within a few days had reached from one end of Arabia to the other. The rebellious apostates expelled the Muslim administrators and inflicted grievous torture on the faithful Muslim of their region and brutally murdered them. " 98 It was not that Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra had ordered to have them killed as a result of being informed of their apostasy. Rather these cruel wretehes were killing the innocent Muslims for what was for them the crime of apostasy on the part of Muslims in that they (the Muslims) had left their (the apostates) faith and had accepted Islam. They were threatening to kill Muslims if they did not revert to their original faith. It were the apostates who, subjecting Muslims to all kinds of torture, were punishing them for their alleged 'apostasy'. To bring these torturous punishments to a halt, Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra mobilised his army and marched on against them for the crime of raising general revolt against the bone fide Muslim 98 D a st a ni Islam , Part 2, Khilafati R a shida , p23 by Shaikh Muhammad Iqb a l M. A. , Published by the Panjab Press, Lahore 1970. [Publisher]