The Truth about the Alleged Punishment for Apostasy in Islam — Page 39
39 killing them—then it is an extremely spurious argument to assert that since an incident from the ancient history is mentioned, and it has not been disavowed, we shall take it as precedent and shall make it a part of our Sharia, and that it is incumbent on us to do so. This idea is completely wrong and diametrically opposed to the Sunna. Although it is true that until a commandment on a specific issue was revealed to him, the Holy Prophet sa used to follow the earlier religious scriptures, i. e. , Torah. But when an injunction regarding that particular issue was revealed to him then, he would not even consider the possibility of consulting Torah. FURTHER EXAMINATION OF THE ARGUMENT OF ‘UTHM A N I SAH IB Let us now further examine his argument. Maul a n a ‘Uthm a n i Sahib refers to the following verse of the Holy Qur’an: "And when they were smitten with remorse and saw that they had indeed gone astray, they said, 'If our Lord do not have mercy on us and forgive us, we shall surely be among the