(January 6, 2022 at 10:42 am)Klorophyll Wrote:(January 4, 2022 at 7:25 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: it’s pretty plain that God is going to punish apostates, your comments about disorder and social cohesion aside.
No, it isn't plain, really. Someone can leave religion because he sincerely (but wrongly) thought it was a false religion, for example. God being just in Islam wouldn't punish this person.
There is an authentic hadith where a married woman who committed adultery willingly comes to the Islamic prophet and asks him to apply the penalty (which is stoning to death), the prophet repeatedly rejects her request and asks her to repent privately to God - which is a clear sign that unless adultery or apostasy is provable in court, no penalty is applied-. After the woman insisted and her affair became known, the penalty was eventually applied and the woman was killed as prescribed in the Islamic law. The prophet then told his companions she's going to heaven, and prayed for the deceased woman.
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I refer you to this, posted earlier by Winter:
Quote:(106) Whoever disbelieves in Allah after their belief—not those who are forced while their hearts are firm in faith,1 but those who embrace disbelief wholeheartedly—they will be condemned by Allah and suffer a tremendous punishment.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
