Death for 'Apostates' in Pakistan?

Throughout history, Mullahs had interrupted religion with irrational edicts backed by personal whims to suit to their seasonal expediencies. ‘Death for apostates’ is the law invented by Mullahs to satiate their kind of hearts by cold blooded murder in the name of Islam.

Justice Munir wrote: “Ulema are practically unanimous on the subject of apostasy that is punishable with death.” He named man including Maulana Maudoodi. “The same fate should befall on Deobandis and Wahabis. In the court of inquiry some Maulanas asserted that during first and subsequent Khilafat, that the wast area of Arabia became repeatedly red with blood of apostates.” He remarked: “It stamps Islam as a religion of fanatics.” “With this implication Islam becomes an embodiment of complete intellectual paralysis. In my opinion there is no express text in the Quran for the death penalty for apostasy.”

Maudoodi was the stern proponent for death penalty to apostates. But his own commentary on the subject in his Tafheemul Quran is: “This order is for those Muslims who outwardly keep relation with Muslims and during war practically keep relation with Kafirs and help them in hostilities against Muslims. (Quran: 4:89). Same is the view in some more Urdu commentaries. Refer to Abul Kalam Ahmed, Shah Rafiudin Dehlavi, and also English commentary by Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Saudi edition where it is clearly stated that it is penalty for spying: Shriat can’ be seasonal.

In early British days there have been conversions of Mullahs and many Muslim personal to Christianity in India. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmed (as) had recorded some names. The same are also available in the Christian history of ‘Religious Conversion Movement in South Asia’ by Geoffrey A Oddie published by Curzon Press Richmond. Some of the names are Moulvi Safdar Ali, Moulvi Mushtaq Ahmed and Moulvi Imamuddin the Khatib of Agra Mosque. One may wonder why there was no reaction from any Islamic groups against those converted to Christianity in those days. Can Shariat be subjected to seasonal expediencies?

As against this reads Mullah’s home made shariat, “Shari’at allows three days’ grace period for an apostate - Murtad) to get back into Islamic fold. If he does not, he is to be awarded capital punishment.” (Gift for Qadianis. Page 127) Why this contradiction? It seems fanatics are brain washed to believe that all opposing groups in ideology are infidels or apostates liable to be killed. Otherwise how are they embarking on mass murders by way of suicide bombing?

Abdullah Bin Abi Sarah who was the scribe of Holy Prophet (PBUH) became an apostate in Medina and joined Meccans. He was not killed after fall of Mecca. If that was the case of an apostate who fell from the spiritual height, how is it advisable to kill any apostate in Pakistan who may by great chance be a brutalized like, dacoit, rapist, murderer and so forth? If he voluntarily quits Islam to sanctity rest of Islam, why chase him to bring him back.

Allah warned, “If any one slew a person – unless it be for murder, or for spreading mischief in the land, it would be as if he slew the whole people.”(Quran 5:32). “If a man kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is hell to abide therein (for ever) and the wrath and curse of Allah are upon him. And a dreadful chastisement is prepared for him.” (Quran 4:93) In the face of such admonishment direct from God, how do fundamentalists and perverted Mullahs manage to indoctrinate unwary fanatics to embark on suicide attack missions to be caught as a murderer and be thrown into hell instead of paradise they hoped for? How do the suicide attackers discriminate between the targeted enemy and the innocents in their massive murder spree?

A columnist Iqbal Ahmed wrote: “Pakistan is full of Muslims but there no Islam here. He said, he had seen Islamic values lived and reflected in USA, Canada, Norway and Sweden” (Dawn 20/2/94) So, according to Iqbal Ahmed Pakistan will have to import Muslims from countries of Kafirs authorized by God to slaughter apostates in Pakistan.

In Quran there are reckonable admonitions on the subject repeatedly. “The goal of you all is to Allah. It is he that will show you the truth of the matters in which ye dispute.” (Quran: 5:48) “Then shall ye all return unto me, and I will judge between you of the matters wherein ye dispute.” (Quran 3:55) How can any one dare defy this warning unless he is convinced that the targeted groups are not believers? No matter how vehement and eloquent the proponents of false doctrines might be, their efforts will prove fruitless and it will be indisputably clear, on the Day of Judgment as to who entertained false notions and who cherished the truth. Who are Mullahs to challenge Allah’s authority in reservation on the matters of faith?

Justice Jawed Iqbal commented, “Politicians failed to implement the concept of humanistic Islam. Anti Ahmediyya movement was the first example of sectarianism being used for political purpose.”(Dawn 14/1/98) They approach financiers to help in the defence of Islam against Qadianis. Justice Munir in his reports on Punjab disturbance 1953, P-12 wrote: ‘It may indeed be said that the Ahrar took their birth in the hatred of Ahmadis’.

The irony of this reality is that in seeking to impose Islamic law and create an Islamic state, Islamists are actually in direct opposition in spirit and letter of the Quran. (Quran 2:256) 

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