The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 94
94 after the man was killed that Mu‘ a dh ra sat down 96. Here, on the one hand Mu‘ a dh ra says that this is the judgment of Allah and His Messenger. (However, he does not mention as to when this judgment was passed and what was its wording. ) On the other hand neither is there a mention of any such Divine decree in the Holy Qur’an nor is there a record of any such verdict of the Holy Prophet sa in A ha d i th that as a consequence of just apostasy one should be killed. This is why it is more credible to deduce from what Mu‘ a dh ra said that it was his own reasoning, his personal opinion. From the Holy Qur’an and A ha d i th only this can be confirmed. Then again, no detail is given regarding the incident, as to why the Jew was brought there? What did he do? Each aspect of the narration is ambiguous and is open to supposition and conjecture. There is the possibility that he was caught for some crime other than that of apostasy and was brought there for that reason. Or that he might have engaged in combat against Islam. As all these facts are vague, so reliance on an ambiguous Hadith—which is merely based on the inference of a Companion ra —in such an important issue and to pass judgment contrary to the manifest verses of the Holy Qur’an is extremely unjust. It is a universal principle that when the Holy Qur’an is definitive about an issue, even if an authentic 96 Irtid a d k i Saz a Islam i Q a n u n Mei ń , page 14, See Sunan Al-Nasa’ i Kit a bul Mu ha rabati [Ta h r i muddam i], Al- H ukmu fil Murtaddi , Hadith No. 4071. [Publisher]