The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law. It’s based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.” (Qur’an 4:89)
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari 9.84.57). The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence.
This is still the position of all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, both Sunni and Shi’ite. Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the most renowned and prominent Muslim cleric in the world, has stated: “The Muslim jurists are unanimous that apostates must be punished, yet they differ as to determining the kind of punishment to be inflicted upon them. The majority of them, including the four main schools of jurisprudence (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, and Hanbali) as well as the other four schools of jurisprudence (the four Shiite schools of Az-Zaidiyyah, Al-Ithna-‘ashriyyah, Al-Ja’fariyyah, and Az-Zaheriyyah) agree that apostates must be executed.”
Qaradawi also once famously said: “If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”
“‘How can you ally with Kafirs? You will burn in Jahannam fire’: Ex-Muslim man narrates threats he received after ‘Ghar Wapsi’ to Hinduism,” OpIndia, June 24, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar has obtained a recording of a phone conversation wherein a woman is heard persuading Shaikh Jafar Qureshi, an ex-Muslim to turn back to Islam. The 46-year-old Qureshi renounced Islam and accepted Hinduism in the Mandasaur district of Madhya Pradesh on May 27, 2022.
Qureshi was given the initiation to Hinduism by performing ritual worship by Mahamandaleshwar Swami Chidambaranand Saraswati at the Pashupatinath temple. From May 28 Shaikh Jafar Qureshi was known by his new name Chetan Singh Rajput.
In the telephonic conversation, the girl attempted to convince Qureshi to reaffirm his commitment to Islam. She rebuked Shaikh Jafar Qureshi aka Chetan Singh Rajput for allying with the ‘Kafirs'(non-Muslims). She claimed that Qureshi was convinced to convert to Hinduism with the sole intention of demeaning Muslims. She kept asking Qureshi to swear in the name of Allah and his parents that he would get back to Islam.
According to the reports, the ritual worship for Qureshi to adopt the Sanatan Dharma was organized by Mahamandaleshwar Swami Chidambaranand Saraswati of the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad Mahanirvani Sangh on May 27. Swami who gave Qureshi his new name asked to him clean his body with the cow dung and the holy gau mutra. Mahamandaleshwar Swami Chidambaranand Saraswati said that the religious ritual was not conducted for conversion, but ‘gharvapsi’ (homecoming).
It is notable here that in the Hindu faith, there is no concept of ‘conversion’, but those who had strayed away from the Sanatana Dharma can ‘come back’, by performing certain rituals. This process is popular as ‘Ghar Waspsi’ (coming back home) in Hindi-speaking areas.
Qureshi had also termed the process as ‘gharvapsi’. He said that he has been following the Hindu religion since his childhood and that he never liked the Islamist people who possess fanatical thinking.
A Dainik Bhaskar team, meanwhile, went to Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh to meet Chetan Singh Rajput, who told the Hindi daily that he has been receiving numerous calls since May 27 asking him to rejoin Islam. Chetan claimed that he has also informed the cops about this. However, when the Dainik Bhaskar team reached out to Anurag Sujania, the Mandsaur SP, he said that the police had not received any complaints regarding the same….
Qureshi further stated the woman tried to continuously convince him to renounce Hinduism and accept Islam by and scaring him with the concept of Jahannam (hell) in Islam. Qureshi recalled the woman telling him, “Brother, you will certainly burn in the ever-flaming pit of fire in Jahannam (hell). I asked her whether she has experienced Jahannam (hell). She called me up multiple times and each time I tried to give her a patient hearing, but eventually, I stopped picking up her call,” said Qureshi.
He went on to say that the woman had warned him that if he didn’t change his religion from Hinduism to Islam again he would not be spared. “After a while, these individuals who are presently willing to support you won’t care as much. I am aware of how dangerous they are. You won’t be spared by them. You will be killed,“ Qureshi remembered her admonishing him….
somehistory says
Sounds as if she is equating Hindus with mozlums in the killing thing. those who “support you.” He has mozlums to fear and may not get to live long after this. and they are not “supporting” him in his decision.
they know who he is and they won’t rest until they’ve done to him what they have done to many others and threatened to do.
Keith O says
He’s got balls and I dare say , a limited life span.
I hope he makes a clean break and stays alive.
Wellington says
Ah, just more evidence confirming that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance.
P.S. Neither Biden, nor Obama, nor Bush 43 will acknowledge the true nature of Islam with respect to tolerance and goodwill. Shame on all three.
Black Sabbath says
Allah has not paid heating bill of “hell” in many years and COMED has cut the electricity supply due to unpaid bills and rising energy prices under the Biden administration. So, anyone leaving islam, please be assured there is no “hell fire” outside the minds of islamic clerics.
raja says
🤣
Infidel says
If they are going to Hinduism, they’ll simply be born again, and in that life, be rewarded/punished according to what they did in their various previous lives. A lot more comfortable than hellfire
Infidel says
Congratulations to ex Shaikh Jafar Qureshi for following in the footsteps of Wasim Rizvi and ignoring that aurat who was trying to goad him back. He should give the police her name and number, and let them give her a doze of the bulldozer 😈
gravenimage says
India: Muslim renounces Islam, accepts Hinduism, is threatened with hellfire and told ‘You will be killed’
Qureshi further stated the woman tried to continuously convince him to renounce He went on to say that the woman had warned him that if he didn’t change his religion from Hinduism to Islam again he would not be spared. “After a while, these individuals who are presently willing to support you won’t care as much. I am aware of how dangerous they are. You won’t be spared by them. You will be killed,“ Qureshi remembered her admonishing him….
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These thugs are willing to wait until–as they think–Qureshi will have less protection from his Hindu friends, and Muslims will then murder him.
God, I hate Islam.
I hope this brave man stays safe.
Devasur says
Their is no need of gau mutra for gharwapsi. it is done for purposely to weed out fake ones.
Infidel says
It should be accompanied by having a pork roast as well, so that that person’s gateway to jannat is shut down as well, in case he was committing taquiyya and was planning to return to islam
tim gallagher says
That’s islam for you alright. You dare to leave the foul religion and they’ll murder you. And don’t they just love to spend their time murdering people. Islam is surely the only religion that kills people for leaving it. I can remember when I was being brought up as a Catholic type of Christian ages ago (I am 72 years old) that there probably was a mentality among some Catholics and Catholic clergy that, if you strayed, and left that particular branch of Christianity, you might be off to hell when you died (a mentality now long gone, and rightfully so), but the idea would always be that it was up to God to judge and decide such things after you died. But not with stinking, evil Islam – no way are they going to wait for a person to die and let God judge, nope, they’ll murder the apostate right here and now. Islam seems to provide Muslims with so many reasons to murder people -honour killings, apostasy, maybe to keep the vile creatures happy. Just as gravenimage often says, I also hate Islam for so much of its evil and totally barbaric. Islam contains so much that is evil.
Andrew Blackadder says
islam is a Fascist Religious Cult in very manner.
Fascist as you cannot say anything against it…
Religious as they speak about god… a lot..
Cult because they will kill you for changing your mind about what you THINK.
Imagine a religion that will murder you because you came to a different conclusion of what god is, or isnt…
This tells me they are weak in their faith, shallow in their beliefs, and infantile in their thought process.
raja says
Andrew Blackadder,
My compliments on your good analysis of islam: Fascist, religious-cult and fragile to the core. Make hay while the sun shines, kill as many as possible while still on earth.
Melc says
Nothing new here. Islam is a death cult using religion to murder, intimidate and ‘strike fear into the hearts of the non believers’. Maybe it’s time to carry a self defence weapon.
Kundan says
I often wonder, why the infidel haveto be killed when they are eventually going to be punished by the hellfire” I never understand this logic.
raja says
Kundan,
If you look for logic or reason in islam you are in for never ending headache.
somehistory says
True, raja, and even clerics of this devil’s cult of death have said, “there is no logic in islam.”