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Iranian Koran Scholar: Apply Koran 5:33 to Protesters, i.e., Crucifixion, Amputation, Banishment

Dec 3, 2019 12:00 pm By Andrew Bostom

Abolfazl Bahrampour is a prominent Iranian Koran scholar and author of the widely respected “One Volume Commentary on the Koran,” (in Farsi, Qom, 2007). Interviewed on Iran’s state run television network during its daily “Eastern Sun” program, Tuesday, November 26, 2019, Bahrampour condemned those protesting Iran’s oppressive theocratic regime, en masse, as “Moharabeh”—enemies of Allah, who sew “corruption” of an Islamic societal order. Moharabeh is a standard allegation leveled against Iranian protesters, who are then routinely sentenced to death.

Bahrampour’s fulmination advocated (video) the protesters’ appropriate Koranic punishment—per Koran 5:33.

They should be tortured to death (i.e., crucified), not just simply killed. It is the exact meaning of the verse (Koran 5:33), Our Allamah (Muslim religious scholars and authorities) are good interpreters of the Koran…if they’ve (the protesters) been dealt with in such ways, they wouldn’t dare to protest again…And they should be punished and executed publicly and where the crime was actually committed…their hands a feet should be cut off on oppsote sides in the worst way possible…

Here is the verbatim translation of Koran 5:33:

“Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.”

Radio Farda reported that even an Iranian regime cleric, Ayatollah Kazem Qazizade, allegedly dissented from Bahrampour’s draconian, if Sharia-sanctioned punishment.

Notwithstanding Ayatollah Qazizade’s contention, Koran expert Bahranpour’s understanding of Koran 5:33, and its potential application to the recently arrested protesters, is entirely consistent with the most authoritative modern Shiite Koranic commentator, Allameh Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai (d. 1981), and his gloss on this verse.

The mainstream Islamic Studies academy—both Western and Iranian—has designated Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai the leading modern Shiite religious scholar and philosopher, dubbing him a “theosopher.” Allameh [Allamah] Tabatabaei [Tabatabai] University, named in honor of this celebrated Shiite authority and “theosopher,” is the largest specialized state social sciences university in Iran and the Middle East, with 17000 students and 500 full-time faculty members. Affirming his continued lofty stature, and relevance, an Iranian national conference was held on May 3, 2012, in Qom, dedicated to “recognizing the interpretative methods and principles used by Allameh [Allamah] Tabatabaee [Tabatabai] in [his Koranic] exegesis.” Tabatabai’s al-Mizān fi tafsir al-Qurʾān “The measure of balance/justly held scales in the interpretation of the Quran,” a 21-volume Arabic opus, which is regarded as the most important contemporary Shiite Koranic commentary.

Tabatabai’s authoritative gloss on Koran 5:33, clearly comports with Bahrampour’s interpretation of its deserving application to punishment of the protesters:

“T]he metaphorical meaning is very wide and it can be applied on disobeying any rule of the sharia…Therefore, waging war and making mischief obviously mean the same thing, i.e. disturbing general law and order. Law and order is upset when fear and anxiety prevail in society…The words: “their hands and their feet should be cut off on  opposite sides,” mean that if the hand is cut on the right side, the foot  should be cut on the left; this only shows that cutting the hands and  the feet means cutting one hand and one foot (on opposite sides), not both hands and both feet…It has been argued on the strength of this verse that if the prescribed punishment is meted out to a guilty man, it does not necessarily mean that he will not be punished in the hereafter;…It has been narrated through various Sunnī chains; and some of their traditions say that it depends on Imam’s discretion, he shall kill if he  pleases, and shall crucify if he pleases, and shall cut off hands and feet on opposite sides if he pleases, and shall banish if he pleases. Some Shiah traditions too likewise say that the Imam has the discretion. For example, see the tradition narrated in al-Kafī from Jamīl ibn Darraj  from as-Sadiq (a.s.) about this verse: He says: “I said, ‘What are they  liable to form these prescribed punishments that Allah has named?’ He  said, ‘It is up to [the] Imam; he shall cut off if he pleases, and banish if he  pleases, and crucify if he pleases, and kill if he pleases.’ ”

Tabatabai’s uniquely “learned” imprimatur to such Sharia-mandated barbarity—reiterated by Bahrampour—engendered these apposite observations by an Iranian freethinking, conscientious objector to Islam which all intellectually honest, moral persons should digest:

“This is the real Islam. This Quran teacher (Bahrampour) explains exactly, from verses of the Quran. Here is Iran… It is the reality of the Quran and Islam that this Quranic teacher (Bahrampour) expresses without hesitation. Muslim rulers. Muslim people. Islamic laws…Killing people according to the Koran. What exactly do you protest if you are a Muslim?”

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  1. Antiislamicman says

    Dec 3, 2019 at 12:43 pm

    Well the country is run by sharia law so just kill everyone who dies not obey their False God

  2. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Dec 3, 2019 at 12:55 pm

    A level of ruthlessness somewhere between China and North Korea.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 3, 2019 at 1:12 pm

    This cruel ,brutal and murderous Qu’ran based method 5:33 of persecuting Iranian protesters is keeping with the long history of that violent “mullah regime” of Iran. Likewise also goes with bounds All this fits with the actual legacy of Ayatollah Khomeini is the of violence and war. To be more specific Islamic violence and war. Strangely, there are many young people and strangely many older people, who are Westerns who in the United States as well other countries of the West are, no doubt sincere but very misinformed ,as in misled, therefore say ,because they believe it, that “Islam is a peaceful and non-violent religion .” To those people the first and supreme Ayatollah Khomeini , who was the very head this current Islamic regime of Iran knows better stated about how he feels about those naïve Westerns .For he declared “Islam grew with blood….Islam is a religion of blood for the infidels” He also said “Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1]

    So, in other words Ayatollah Khomenei felt nothing but arrogant contempt for those people who say that his religion “Is a peaceful religion” and understand that they in ignorant and uninformed.

    Therefore the West needs to wake up to the reality of the truth about the actual violent essence of this religion.

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM, by Ibn Warraq, pages 336,339.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 3, 2019 at 1:13 pm

    This vicious ,malicious and murdering ,Qu ‘ran based 5:33, way of opposing and oppressing protesters is staying within the national character of the rough Islamic state of Iran . Therefore that attack, by Iran, should be of no surprise to any informant person, in fact , this fits in with the real legacy of Ayatollah Khomeini who was the Imam who was so powerful that he played large role in the establishment of the current Islamic tyranny of Iran which has the official title of “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” Khomeini had declared “ Jihad or Holy War ,which is for the conquest of [other ] countries and kingdoms , becomes incumbent after the formation of the Islamic State in the presence of the Imam or in accordance with his command. Then Islam makes it incumbent on all males…to prepare themselves for the conquest of countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world… those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. The goal of this conquest would be to establish the hegemony of Islamic law.” [1]

    [1] THE HISTORY OF JIHAD by Robert Spencer , page 319.

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 3, 2019 at 1:13 pm

    About this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran which has the official title of “The Islamic Republic of Iran” and also about the chief and head Imam, Ayatollah Khomeini, who had a strong hand in establishing this so called “Republic “ The very actual essence of that Islamic tyranny ,Ayatollah Khomeini had made in known that “The Islamic Republic of Iran would be Islamic and nothing but .He declared ‘What the nation wants is an Islamic Republic . Not just a Republic, not a democratic Republic, not a democratic Islamic Republic. Do not use the word “democratic” to describe it. That is the Western style. ‘” [1]

    [1]`THE HISTORY OF JIHAD by Robert Spencer, page 318.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Dec 3, 2019 at 1:14 pm

    That cruel and tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran regime has severely limited to an extreme much knowledge and wisdom from the outside world . This is because that fiendish and murderous ayatollahs and mullahs in power in Iran are very much afraid the Iranian people might discover different ideas . As the idea’s and philosophy of John Locke

    For example, Locke views the people living under any genuine government are people retaining their individual rights after a government has been established. In other words, the securing of their rights – the protection of the life, liberty and property of all – is the sole legitimate purpose of government. I If a government begins to abuse those rights it then becomes tyrannical and the governed [the people] retain the right to overthrow that government and replace it with one that does its job properly.

    So that heinous ”mullah regime” of Iran , greatly fears such ideas and keeps the people under his hideous control of his tyranny in and the darkness of much limited information .

  7. FYI says

    Dec 3, 2019 at 1:30 pm

    Apply koran 4:82 to islamic scholars and the koran..

    “Will they not then ponder on the quran?If it had been from other than allah they would have find
    therein much incongruity”
    Koran 4:82

    allah’s Criterion:If you find ANY mistakes in the koran that implies allah’s “perfect” koran is IMPERFECT
    and thus allah’s word is in error.

    So PONDER THIS…

    Are there mistakes in the koran?
    YES
    Could it be said of the “perfect” koran that given all the SCIENTIFIC,THEOLOGICAL ERRORS{Christians are not polytheists,Jews don’t believe in anyone called “Ezra is the son of allah” k9:30,Jesus NEVER had the Gospel “bestowed” on Him k5:46 etc}and ILLOGICALITIES ,that “therein much incongruity” is found?
    YES

    So the “perfect” koran has ERRORS which prove it to be imperfect;and by allah’s own criterion of k4:82 means
    the koran must come from “other than allah”{Logically}

    Can the Scholars of islam understand that?
    Nope
    Do they want to understand it?
    No:they would lose their status as “scholars”

    Also for islamic scholars to ponder:

    Islam has No Golden Rule;Explain.
    The 2nd chief Commandment of Lev 19:18 is MISSING in islam;WHY?
    Why does allah preach the OPPOSITE of God’s Official ExODUS 20 comandments?
    Why does allah get the Religion of Abraham wrong k3:67 “Abraham was not a Jew”?
    {Since Abraham is in the Genealogy of Jesus{Jewish} Matthew 1then obviously Abraham must be connected with the Jews}
    How did allah get everything so wrong:it is because he is the BEST OF DECEIVERS K3;54

    and “many many more questions”…

    Can the islamic scholars figure it out?

    NOPE

    • roberta says

      Dec 3, 2019 at 8:49 pm

      ”Can the islamic scholars figure it out?”
      Ive read the koran and studied the hadieths enough to be left with the question. (What the heck is an islamic scholar?)
      To me it is one of those Jumbo shrimp kinda things. 115 chapters, mostly short (except for the first 30 or so mind numbingly
      awful chapters)
      The only things left to study are the suffering, death and destruction it has brought upon the world. One could certainly find enough information on that to make/become a (scholar) out of it.

      Im lost on WTF an islamic scholar could actually be. I must be missing something.

      • roberta says

        Dec 3, 2019 at 8:56 pm

        It just hit me like lightening: I will take a bed sheet or a diaper, wrap it around my head until all circulation is cut off, then re-read the koran. It should make sense to me at that point. Shame I cant grow a beard.

        • FYI says

          Dec 4, 2019 at 7:38 am

          What I mean is that these islamic “scholars” have a vested interest in lying and using islam and the koran to control people:of course they PRETEND not to see how wrong it is.So they hide the truth even from muslims usually by fiddling the Arabic or creating the nonsense that the koranic Arabic is somehow too abstruse to understand:Hogwash!

          muslims are taught to be afraid of questioning the koran as these “scholars” claim it is the word of allah who they pretend is the same as the Judeo-Christian Biblical God.

          Ex-muslims{the “apostates”} have figured it out.

          The koran cannot be said to be perfect if it has multiple errors that prove it to be imperfect.
          The imperfections in the koran mean that the mind of the author of the koran is imperfect.
          The author of the koran is definitely HUMAN pretending to be God..

          Coupled with the ludicrously over the top antisemitism,contempt of Christianity :that is a Human prejudice!

          The errors in the koran show that it isn’t perfect:the koran isn’t worth the paper it is written on..

  8. roberta says

    Dec 3, 2019 at 5:08 pm

    Always the solution to the failure of islam———more islam.
    This is one of the reasons Turkey is failing so well. But more islam will get them on the right path. Fools
    Islam really does have to be outlawed world wide.

  9. gravenimage says

    Dec 3, 2019 at 8:56 pm

    Iranian Koran Scholar: Apply Koran 5:33 to Protesters, i.e., Crucifixion, Amputation, Banishment
    …………….

    Yes–this is what Islam teaches. *Ugh*.

  10. elee says

    Dec 4, 2019 at 2:16 am

    And if this is how the Muslims choose to rule themselves, what is the duty of a civilised man? One mourns for the innocent children, but if one attacks they send children to the front with weapons. One can mourn for the oppressed women, but they will fight like hell to preseerve their enslavement.

  11. Westman says

    Dec 4, 2019 at 11:10 am

    I have a dream….that one day Abolfazl Bahrampour will be shipped by the citizens to a Chinese re-education camp along with all the Iranian regime.

  12. Or Else! says

    Dec 4, 2019 at 12:06 pm

    Hence my handle.

    That’s Islam’s solution for everything, it seems. Do as we say….or else!

    A tyrannical ideology not worth a whit of respect.

  13. Shamir says

    Jan 13, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    Ruthlessness, cruel, Murderer, this is not solution? Fanatic non educated .superstitious and stupid. Sham sham sham. There is something wrong with your brain crazy old dog

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