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Controversial Questions about Islam and Comments the following points: 1. Islam made it very difficult, actually next to impossible, to prove adultery, by requiring four witnesses seeing the actual intercourse taking place in a way that is impossible under normal circumstances. Not only that, but it also threatened anyone who slandered a chaste man or woman by accusing him or her of adultery to be lashed eighty lashes. (1) It also gave the accused wife a chance to clear herself of this guilt only by giving four testimonies swearing by Allah that the accusation is false and a fifth oath that that the wrath of Allah be upon her if the accusing husband was truthful. (2) 2. All cases during the Prophet’s time were executed based on a willful confession, and the Prophet (pbuh) desperately tried to avoid the need for applying the ruling. To take the example of Ma’ez, the Prophet turned away from him four times on different days, he asked the man’s folks about his mental situation and tried, through embarrassing questions, to dissuade him. Finally, when the Prophet was told that Ma’ez ran away during the execution of the judgment of stoning and they followed him, he said: ‘Why did you not leave him alone?’ Concerning the Ghamidi woman, the Prophet kept delaying her punishment, hoping she would not come back and would refrain from confession again. She kept insisting till he told her, the last time, to come back after she completed breast-feeding her child; i.e. a two-years delay. 3. One person cannot commit adultery. Yet, in all cases except one the Prophet did not make any effort to find out who was the other party to be punished. The only case is when the husband took compensation from his wife’s partner, and the case was presented before the Prophet. 4. The evidences of abrogation of the ruling is stronger because: (a) There was another ruling for a wife who commits adultery that was not stricken out of the Holy Quraan but the ruling was (1) Holy Quraan 24: 4. (2) Holy Quraan 24: 6-9. 90
Controversial Questions about Islam and Comments abrogated. (b) Therefore, if the verse was removed from the Holy Quraan, as claimed by some, the ruling must have been abrogated too. In fact, the warning of very severe punishment is found in other cases, such as cursing those who are involved in usury, a woman who uses tattoos or tattoos others. (1) Here, cursing does not mean praying for the person to be deprived from the mercy of Allah, but is used as an intensified warning. This kind of regulation is familiar even in the man made law. For example, some states in the USA assign a fine of five hundred dollars for littering on highways. In general, when we look carefully at these forms of punishments, we notice that they concentrate on the public’s rights. For whoever practices sex in a way that four people can describe up to the details is not only violating the honor of his or her legal partner or blood relatives, but offends and challenges public morals as well. Does a Person Deserve the Death Sentence for Apostasy? As we mentioned earlier, there is no compulsion in religion, but when a person chooses Islam willingly, he is signing a life long bond with Allah. Therefore, some Muslim scholars justify the Prophet’s saying: “Whoever changes his religion kill him.” (2) This is in a way similar to a person who agrees to become a citizen of a country, which implements capital punishment for certain crimes. The agreement is binding on all parties, and no party can break from it without the consent of the other party. Furthermore, this ruling came when there were no sufficient records for the citizens, and the only way to distinguish between the different categories was religion. (3) It was easy for the Muslims’ enemies to change their religion back and forth to create confusion among Muslims and to lure them into disbelief. So, there was a need to close this door, at least by declaring (1) for example al-Bukhari: the dealings. (2) al-Bukhari: al-Jihad. (3) Islam experienced in Medina’s political entity the religious and race multiplicity fourteen centuries ago. 91
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