The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 69
69 Knowing. " 68 It is the same verse that I had recited in the beginning of this speech. It is utterly beyond reason to deduce a sanction for capital punishment even from this verse. It does not admit of even a remote possibility of making such a deduction. They have based their argument on the following three portions of the Verse 5:55: 1. 'Allah will soon bring a people whom He will love and who will love Him;' 2. ' who will be kind and humble towards believers, hard and firm against disbelievers;' 3. 'they will strive in the cause of Allah and will not fear the reproach of a faultfinder. ' They say what it means is this: Whoever will turn apostates, Allah will bring forth a people to fight with them. And Allah will love those people and they will love Allah. They will fight with those apostates and kill them with the sword because they will be kind to the believers, but very harsh towards the disbelievers. In other words, according to them, the words "Allah 68 The Holy Qur’an 5:55. [Publisher]