The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 91
91 Holy Prophet sa by way of complaint said to his Companions ra : 'Were you not aware that this man was included in the list of those who I was not going to forgive? Why—what was it that stopped you from killing him?' This happened two or three times. The Companions ra submitted 'O Prophet of God sa you should have given us a signal with your eyes. The Holy Prophet sa said, 'It is against the dignity of a Prophet sa to commit deception with the eyes. Whatever he says, he says it clearly and openly. ' That is to say, if he wanted to have him killed, he would have told them to do so. He would have never done it in a deceptive way. 92 It is a shame that some ulema try to deduce from this straightforward matter their own conclusions by crooked reasoning. Not to commit deception of the eye only means that erroneous ways of this kind were beneath his moral greatness. If he had wanted to have him killed he would have clearly told them to rise and kill him. He only wanted to find out as to what it was that, despite having full knowledge of his directive, made them refrain from killing him? The question arises that had the Holy Qur’an clearly directed the punishment of apostasy as death, would the Holy Prophet sa have made concessions to the 92 Assununul Kubr a by Ab u Bakr Ahmad bin H usain Al-Baihq i , Part 8, Kit a bul Murtaddi, Babu Man Q a la Fil Murtaddi Yustat a bu Mak a nah u Fa’in T a ba Wa’ill a Qutila , Page 205, published by Nashrusunna, Multan, Pakistan. [Publisher]