The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 44
44 all the apostates who had committed the sin. This flies in the face of the fact that the Holy Qur’an is addressing only those people who had wronged their souls—and not addressing those people, at all, who had not wronged their souls. Nowhere in the Qur’an— where this subject is mentioned—the people who did not commit the sin are addressed, and they are nowhere asked to kill (the apostates). It is something which Maul a n a ‘Uthm a n i has invented himself and has attributed his invention to the Qur’an. DIVERGENCE BETWEEN THE NARRATIVES OF THE TORAH AND THE HOLY QUR’AN The most that we can concede to Maulaw i ‘Uthm a n i Sahib is that, perhaps, he learnt the details of this incident from the Bible. But had he learnt it from the Bible, he would not have presented the narrative the way he did. For in its account of the incident the Bible very explicitly and strongly opposes the Qur’an. Hence, the Biblical narrative of this incident no longer remains credible for Muslims. The Bible states 40 that all the people were guilty of that sin. However, the person who had incited the people to commit that sin was not S a mr i , but Aaron as the brother of Moses as. Aaron as himself had invented that method of shirk and then replied to Moses as : 'I had no option left, because the whole nation had overwhelmed me and there were 40 The Old Testament, Exodus (32:2-28). [Publisher]