The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 52
52 Maud u d i Sahib gives a different argument which he bases on the following verse of Surah Al-Taubah: 'But if they repent and observe Prayer, and pay the Zakat, then they are your brethren in faith. And We explain the signs for a people who have knowledge. And if they break their oaths after their covenant, and revile your religion, then fight these leaders of disbelief— surely, they have no regard for their oaths— that they may desist. ' 51 But, at this point, the very verse on which he bases his argument rips it apart, because the verse states the purpose of it all, which is: 'So that they might desist. ' But, if they were to be put to death then how would they ever desist ? In this scheme, the question of repentance (or desisting) does not at all arise for them. He argues on the basis of the verse 12 of Al-Baqarah 51 The Holy Qur’an 9:11, 12. [Publisher]