The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 25
25 changes its colours? Or, for that matter, does any statement of truth takes such twists and turns and acquires a variety of appearances and shapes? He writes further: "In our case, the nation that is given the appellation of "Muslims" is filled with all kinds of riffraff. This nation has as many types of [malefactor] characters as are to be found among kafirs. " 16 DEFINING APOSTASY Now, I turn to the question of defining apostasy. ‘All a ma R a ghib wrote in his lexicon, Al-Mufrid a t : The words Irtid a d and Riddatu mean, ‘to return on the same path as one had traversed earlier’, however the word Riddatu is specifically used to indicate a return to kufr 16 op cit. [Publisher]