The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam

by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad

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The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 4

4 2 ISLAM FACES DANGER FROM WITHIN AND OUTSIDE Islam is embroiled in a variety of severe dangers in this age that is characterized as the Latter Days. Anti- Islamic powers—whether they are of eastern or western hemisphere—are engaged in assailing Islam in different ways. It is the most painful reality that, in this age, it is the Islamic munitions that are being employed to attack Islam, and the attack on Islam is being undertaken in the name of Islam. An overview of the Islamic world today causes one to be surprised that the 2 "O ye who believe! whoso among you turns back from his religion, then let it be known that in his stead Allah will soon bring a people whom He will love and who will love Him, and who will be kind and humble towards believers, hard and firm against disbelievers. They will strive in the cause of Allah and will not fear the reproach of a fault-finder. That is Allah's grace; he bestows it upon whomsoever He pleases; and Allah is Bountiful, All- Knowing. " (The Holy Qur’an 5:55). [Publisher]