By Shaikh Abdullah Faisal Morning Dars: June 29, 2013
TAFSEER
SURAH SAFFAAT
THE
RULES OF APOSTASY IN ISLAM
By Sheikh Faisal
Notes By Admin AT
Edited By Jamillah Mujahidah & Abu
Hafiza4
AYAH 48:
And with them will be chaste females,
restraining their glances (desiring none except their husbands), with wide and
beautiful eyes.
(As-Saffat 37:48)
-This is in contrast of the women of the
dunya.
-The women of the dunya fancy other men.
-Some of the women of the dunya have
affairs.
-80% of them have affairs.
-The women of Paradise don't have diseases
of the heart like lust.
-These 80% belong to darul harb.
-The women of Paradise only look at their
husbands and not at other men because
-there are no diseases of the heart in
Paradise.
-Diseases of the heart like greed and
selfishness are found in dunya.
AYAH 49:
Delicate and pure) as if they were
(hidden) eggs (well) preserved.
(As-Saffat 37:49)
-The women of Paradise are pure. They don't
even blow their noses, urinate or defecate.
-These women are muttahara.
AYAH 50:
Then they will turn to one another, mutually
questioning.
(As-Saffat 37:50)
-This questioning is taking place in
Paradise.
-They will be sitting in the gatherings of
the believers in Paradise.
-They will be questioning each other about
the time they spent in the dunya.
-They will question each other about their
suffering and persecution at the hands of the kuffar, the hypocrites, the
zindeeq and the apostates
AYAH 51 & 52
A speaker of them will say: "Verily,
I had a companion (in the world),
(As-Saffat 37:51)
Who used to say: "Are you among those
who believe (in resurrection after death). (As-Saffat 37:52)
The companion was a kaafir companion he used
to have in the dunya and the speaker is a Muslim.
Allah used the word qareen; that means they
spent a lot of time together.
The kaafir has no excuse on Judgement Day to
say: "I didn't hear about Islam".
He can't use the excuse of ignorance.
-What did the kaafir companion say when he
was in the dunya?
-He asked the Muslim if he was of the ones
who believed in the resurrection.
-He asked this in utter astonishment.
The kaafir doesn't believe in the
resurrection, paradise or hellfire.
AYAH 53:
(That) when we die and become dust and
bones, shall we indeed (be raised up) to receive reward or punishment
(according to our deeds)?"
(As-Saffat 37:53)
-The kaafir used to ask the Muslim in the
dunya this question.
-This question is ridiculous because
recreation after disintegration is easy for Allah to do.
-We are not allowed to put a limit on the
Power of Allah.
-This person denies resurrection because he
is very sinful.
-He can't afford to meet his Maker.
-They call us extremists when we practice
our deen.
-They are the extremists because they are
extremely sinful.
AYAH 54:
(The man) said: "Will you look
down?"
(As-Saffat 37:54)
-This ayah is clear evidence that those in
Paradise will be allowed to see those who are in the hellfire.
-He will say: "I used to tell you not
to drink alcohol and commit zina but I used to do all these things in
secret".
-The kaafir asked the Muslim if he is among
those who believe in the resurrection and paradise and hellfire.
-The Muslim will see this kaafir in the
hellfire.
AYAH 56:
He said: "By Allah! You have nearly
ruined me.
(As-Saffat 37:56)
-The association of the Muslim with the
kaafir nearly ruined the Muslim.
-If he wasn't a fervent Muslim, he would
have been turned into an apostate.
-He would have suffered a relapse.
-Because this companion that the Muslim had
was not a believer.
-The kaafir used to think that the beliefs
of the Muslim were farfetchedness to the highest order.
AYAH 57:
-It was by the Grace of Allah that the
kaafir didn't cause the Muslim to doubt his Islamic faith.
-So today the Muslim is in Paradise looking
at the kaafir in the hellfire.
-Not every Muslim is fortunate like this
Muslim who refused to be influenced by his kaafir associate.
-Some Muslims became influenced by their
kaafir friends in the dunya and ended up in the hellfire.
Ah! Woe to me! Would that I had never
taken so-and-so as a friend!
(Al-Furqan 25:28)
-It is too late. You allowed your kaafir
friend to let you apostate from the deen.
-Some Muslims have a weak personality so it
is easy for kaafirs to make them apostate from their deen.
-Some Muslims have a strong personality so
kaafirs cannot make them budge from the deen.
-Those who have weak personalities need to
avoid harmful company.
-They also need to avoid harmful websites.
-The Jews have established websites
specifically to make people apostate from Islam.
-Apostasy is for a person to stop believing
in Islam.
-The punishment for an apostate is death
Allah spoke about apostasy in surah 4:89.
They wish that you reject Faith, as they
have rejected (Faith), and thus that you all become equal (like one another).
So take not Auliya' (protectors or friends) from them, till they emigrate in
the Way of Allah (to Muhammad SAW). But if they turn back (from Islam), take
(hold) of them and kill them wherever you find them, and take neither Auliya'
(protectors or friends) nor helpers from them.
(An-Nisa 4:89)
Narrated Abu Hurayra: The Prophet (saws)
said: A man follows the religion of his friend; so each one should consider
whom he makes his friend [Abu Dawud]
The above mentioned verse is our evidence
that you kill apostates.
-Before you kill the apostate you lock him
up in prison and give him time to come back to Islam.
-It is not the shariah to kill the apostate
immediately.
-There is no time set by shariah as to how
long you give him to come back to Islam.
-This is left up to the personal ijtihaad of
the Qadi.
It was narrated from 'Aishah, the Mother of
the Believers, that the Messenger of Allah said: "It is not permissible to
kill a Muslim except in one of three cases: A adulterer who has been married,
who is to be stoned; a man who kills a Muslim deliberately; and a man who
leaves Islam and wages war against Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, and His
Messenger, who is to be killed, crucified or banished from the land."
[Sunan an-Nasa'i]
Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd
ibn Aslam that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
said, "If someone changes his deen - strike his neck!"
[Muwatta Malik]
-The above mentioned hadiths is clear
evidence that you kill the apostate that leaves Islam.
-The apostate has to be incarcerated to give
him ample time to return to the fold of Islam.
-An apostate is not killed immediately
-A Saudi boy tweeted something about the
Prophet.
The scholars say he apostate.
-He ran away to Malaysia and he was
extradited back to Saudi Arabia.
-He was not killed; he was given the
opportunity to return to Islam and he returned
to
Islam.
-In the time of the Prophet and the sahabas
apostates were given the opportunity to return to Islam.
-Abu Bakr gave those who refused to pay
zakah the opportunity to return to Islam
and
they returned to Islam.
-When they returned to Islam Abu Bakr said:
"I accept you as my Muslim brothers but I won't use you on the
frontline"
-Umar overruled what Abu Bakr did and he
used these people on the frontline.
-They proved to be sincere and they didn't
betray Islam.
-Apostates should be given the opportunity
to come back to Islam because the
shaitaan
runs in our veins the way blood runs in our veins.
-As for the statement of a person: "I
WISH I WASN'T A MUSLIM", this statement is major kufr and he becomes an
apostate.
-Therefore his marriage has become void and
his wife has now fallen into 3 months of iddah.
-If he returns to Islam within 3 months, the
marriage can be reinstated.
-This person has to retake his shahadah to
return to Islam and he has to make tauba.
-As for the outburst of a Muslim: "THE
KAAFIRS ARE BETTER THAN THE MUSLIMS" he has to be questioned what he meant
from his outburst.
-If he meant that the kaafirs are better
than the fake Muslims, he is not a kaafir.
Maybe he got ripped off by a hypocrite.
Maybe a hypocrite impregnated his daughter.
With this outburst if he meant the kaafirs
are better than the hypocritical Muslims, he is not an apostate.
Allah said in surah 4:145 that the
hypocrites will be in the bottom of the hellfire.
Verily, the hypocrites will be in the
lowest depths (grade) of the Fire; no helper will you find for them.
(An-Nisa 4:145)
-This outburst coincides with the Quran.
-If he meant by his outburst that the
kaafirs are better than the real Muslims then he becomes an apostate.
-As for the Muslim man who is married to a Christian
woman and says: "MY CHILDREN ARE FREE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN ISLAM AND
CHRISTIANITY, I WONT INTERFERE IN THEIR CHOICE", he is an apostate.
-This is because according to sharia law,
whenever children are born from dual
heritage
it is compulsory on the father to bring the children up as Muslims.
Allah said in surah 66:6 to save yourselves
and your families from the fire.
O you who believe! Ward off from
yourselves and your families a Fire (Hell) whose fuel is men and stones, over
which are (appointed) angels stern (and) severe, who disobey not, (from
executing) the Commands they receive from Allah, but do that which they are
commanded.
(At-Tahrim 66:6)
As for the man who says: "I DON'T SEE
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY, THEY ARE ALL THE SAME FOR
ME", he is a kaafir.
This man is a kaafir because he is putting
Islam and kufr on the same even keel.
Shall We then treat the (submitting) Muslims
like the Mujrimun (criminals, polytheists and disbelievers, etc.)?
(Al-Qalam 68:35)
What is the matter with you? How judge
you?
(Al-Qalam 68:36)
As for the sheikh who passes a fatwa:
"MUSLIM BOYS CAN JOIN THE BRITISH ARM, THE AMERICAN ARMY, NATO", he
is a kaafir.
Allah said the only army you can join is the
army of the mujahideen.
Those who believe fight in the Cause of
Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (Satan, etc.). So
fight you against the friends of Shaitaan (Satan); Ever feeble indeed is the
plot of Shaitaan (Satan).
(An-Nisa 4:76)
As for the Muslim who RIDICULES THE HIJAAB,
THE BEARD OR OTHER ASPECTS OF ISLAM, he is a kaafir.
The evidence for this is surah 49:11.
O you who believe! Let not a group scoff
at another group, it may be that the latter are better than the former; nor let
(some) women scoff at other women, it may be that the latter are better than the
former, nor defame one another, nor insult one another by nicknames. How bad is
it, to insult one's brother after having Faith [i.e. to call your Muslim
brother (a faithful believer) as: "O sinner", or "O
wicked", etc.]. And whosoever does not repent, and then such are indeed
Zalimun (wrong-doers, etc.).
(Al-Hujurat 49:11)
However if he mocks a Muslim because of his shortness
or his funny accent, he is not a kaafir but he is sinful.
If you ask them (about this), they
declare: "We were only talking idly and joking." Say: "Was it at
Allah, and His Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations,
etc.) and His Messenger (SAW) that you were mocking?"
(At-Tawbah 9:65)
Make no excuse; you have disbelieved after
you had believed. If We pardon some of you, We will punish others amongst you
because they were Mujrimun (disbelievers, polytheists, sinners, criminals,
etc.).
(At-Tawbah 9:66)
The reason why Allah mentioned women
specifically because to laugh at people is prevalent among women.
As for the Muslim who utters words of kufr like:"THE
QURAN IS A FAKE BOOK" while under the influence of alcohol or drugs
If he was so intoxicated to the extent he
did not know what he was uttering he is not an apostate.
Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him)
said:
The one who studies the sources of sharee‘ah
will realise that the Lawgiver disregarded words that were not meant as said by
the one who uttered them; rather he uttered them unintentionally, as in the
case of one who is sleeping, or forgot, or was intoxicated, or was ignorant, or
was compelled, or made a mistake as a result of extreme joy or anger or
sickness, and the like.
[End quote from I‘laam al-Muwaqqi‘een,
3/78]
In the above mentioned fatwa of Ibn Qayyim
he listed intoxication as an impediment of takfeer.
The person who utters a word of kufr under
the influence of alcohol or drugs is not an apostate if he did not know what he
was saying.
If he pronounces divorce on his wife under
the influence of alcohol or drugs and he did not know he was doing so the
divorce does not take place.
Even though it is halal for Muslim men to
marry Christian girls, if a Muslim girl becomes a Christian, the marriage is
void.
This is because we don't classify her as a
Christian; we classify her as an apostate.
It is haraam to live with an apostate.
The man who apostate from Islam and then
returns to Islam does not need to repeat his Hajj.
His hajj is still valid because he came back
to Islam.
And whosoever of you turns back from his
religion and dies as a disbeliever, then his deeds will be lost in this life
and in the Hereafter, and they will be the dwellers of the Fire. They will
abide therein forever."
(Al-Baqarah 2:217)
The scholars of Islam use this ayah as the
hujjah to say that the man who returned to Islam after apostate, his Hajj is
still valid.
THOSE WHO DO FOUR THINGS TO MUHAMMAD HAVE
APOSTATED:
1) THOSE WHO INSULT MUHAMMAD
like the white people who call him a paedophile.
The hadith that says Aisha consummated the
marriage at age 9 is fabricated.
Aisha migrated from Makkah to Madinah at age
17.
She consummated her marriage two years later
at age 19.
Hisham ibn Urwah who narrated the hadith
became old and senile so he said she was 9 instead of 19.
2) TO MOCK AND RIDICULE MUHAMMAD
like the white people who establish a day
called Draw Muhammad Day.
They use this day to mock and ridicule
Muhammad.
The evidence to prove you become a kaafir
when you mock Muhammad is
surah 9:65-66.
If you ask them (about this), they
declare: "We were only talking idly and joking." Say: "Was it at
Allah, and His Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations,
etc.) and His Messenger (SAW) that you were mocking?"
(At-Tawbah 9:65)
Make no excuse; you have disbelieved after
you had believed. If We pardon some of you, We will punish others amongst you
because they were Mujrimun (disbelievers, polytheists, sinners, criminals,
etc.).
(At-Tawbah 9:66)
3) TO DENY HIS PROPHETHOOD BY CLAIMING HE IS
A FALSE PROPHET LIKE THE CHRISTIANS AND JEWS DO
Allah pronounced Muhammad His Messenger on
many occasions in the Quran like surah 33:40.
Muhammad (SAW) is not the father of any
man among you, but he is the Messenger of Allah and the last (end) of the
Prophets. And Allah is Ever All Aware of everything. (Al-Ahzab 33:40)
Muhammad (SAW) is the Messenger of Allah,
and those who are with him are severe against disbelievers, and merciful among
themselves. You see them bowing and falling down prostrate (in prayer), seeking
Bounty from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure. The mark of them (i.e. of their
Faith) is on their faces (foreheads) from the traces of (their) prostration
(during prayers). This is their description in the Taurat (Torah). But their description
in the Injeel (Gospel) is like a (sown) seed which sends forth its shoot, then
makes it strong, it then becomes thick, and it stands straight on its stem,
delighting the sowers that He may enrage the disbelievers with them. Allah has
promised those among them who believe (i.e. all those who follow Islamic
Monotheism, the religion of Prophet Muhammad SAW till the Day of Resurrection)
and do righteous good deeds, forgiveness and a mighty reward (i.e. Paradise).
(Al-Fath 48:29)
4) TO LIE ON MUHAMMAD DELIBERATELY IN ORDER
TO SPREAD A FALSE DOCTRINE AMONG THE MUSLIMS
This is the modus operandi of a shady Shiite
and a goofy Sufi.
The above mentioned hadith means those who
lie on Muhammad deliberately to spread a false doctrine among the Muslims have
become an apostate.
Therefore he should take his seat in the
hellfire.
Narrated Anas: The fact which stops me from
narrating a great number of Hadiths to you is that the Prophet said:
"Whoever tells a lie against me intentionally, then (surely) let him
occupy his seat in Hell-fire."
[Sahih Bukhari]
The other apostate is the one who denies one
of the 5 pillars of Islam.
It is for this reason that Abu Bakr fought
and killed those that didn't pay zakah.
They were buried in the graveyard of the
kuffar and their women were taken as concubines.
The other apostate is one who denies one of
the 6 pillars of Imaan.
It is because of this reason Ibn Abbas said:
"don't pray over those people who deny Qadr".
Qadr is the last pillar of Imaan.
We call those who deny Qadr Qadriyyah.
The other apostate is the person who plans
to apostate.
To put a condition on your iman is apostasy.
Planning to apostate makes you become a
kaafir.
WHY DO MUSLIMS KILL APOSTATES?
What you have to do is repent to Allah, may
He be exalted, say the Shahaadatayn and come back to Islam, because a person
becomes a kaafir the moment he says that he will apostatise in the future, or
he decides to apostatise, or he says, “If such and such happens, I will
apostatise,” because adhering firmly to Islam is essential, and any hesitation
concerning that constitutes kufr.
End quote from Rawdat at-Taalibeen, 10/65
In al-Mawsoo‘ah al-Fiqhiyyah (42/307) it
says: The fuqaha’ are of the view that if a Muslim thinks of becoming a kaafir,
or he has doubts about the Oneness of Allah or Prophet hood or the Day of
Resurrection, or he intended to stop being a Muslim, or he is hesitant as to
whether he should become a kaafir or not, or he decides that he will become a
kaafir tomorrow or in the future, he goes out of Islam and becomes an apostate
immediately, because developing doubts contradicts the firm intention to be a
Muslim. End quote.
It is not permissible for a man to have a
relationship with a non-mahram woman, and it is not permissible for him to
marry a Hindu woman unless she becomes Muslim.
You have seen for yourself the consequences
of this haraam relationship, which led you to speak words of kufr. Beware and
be very cautious of such relationships. Pray a great deal for forgiveness
(istighfaar) and do a lot of righteous deeds in the hope that Allah may forgive
you and accept your repentance. [end]
The punishment for apostasy from the
religion of Islam is execution. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“And whosoever of you turns back from his
religion and dies as a disbeliever, then his deeds will be lost in this life
and in the Hereafter, and they will be the dwellers of the Fire. They will
abide therein forever” [al-Baqarah 2:217]
And it was proven that the Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever changes his religion,
execute him.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari in his Saheeh. What this hadeeth means is
that whoever leaves Islam and changes to another religion and persists in that
and does not repent, is to be executed. It was also proven that the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “It is not permissible to
shed the blood of a person who bears witness that there is no god but Allaah
and that I am the Messenger of Allaah except in three cases: a life for a life,
a previously-married person who commits adultery, and one who leaves Islam and
forsakes the jamaa’ah.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari and Muslim.
This harsh punishment is for a number of
reasons:
This punishment is a deterrent to anyone
who wants to enter Islam just to follow the crowd or for hypocritical purposes.
This will motivate him to examine the matter thoroughly and not to proceed
unless he understands the consequences of that in this world and in the
Hereafter. The one who announces his Islam has agreed to adhere to all the
rulings of Islam of his own free will and consent, one of which rulings is that
he is to be executed if he apostatizes from the faith.
The one who announces his Islam has joined
the jamaa’ah (main body) of the Muslims, and whoever joins the main body of the
Muslims is required to be completely loyal and to support it and protect it
against anything that may lead to fitnah or destroy it or cause division.
Apostasy from Islam means forsaking the jamaa’ah and its divine order, and has
a harmful effect on it. Execution is the greatest deterrent that will prevent
people from committing such a crime.
We also say that the death penalty exists
in the modern laws of man to protect the system from disorder in some situation
and to protect society against certain crimes which may cause its
disintegration, such as drugs etc. If execution can serve as a deterrent to
protect man-made systems, then it is more appropriate that the true religion of
Allaah, which Falsehood cannot come to it from before it or behind it [cf.
Fussilat 41:42], and which is all goodness, happiness and tranquillity in this
world and in the Hereafter should punish those who commit acts of aggression
against it and seek to extinguish its light and defame its image, and who
fabricate lies against it to justify their apostasy and deviation.
Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 21/234-231.
HOW DOES THE APOSTATE RETURN TO ISLAM?
If a person leaves Islam then decides to
come back to it, what he has to do is to bear witness that there is no god
except Allaah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. If his apostasy was
because he denied one of the basic principles of the religion, then his return
to Islam cannot be complete until he affirms the principle that he had denied.
There is no particular time period within which he can return to Islam; his
repentance will be accepted until the point when the death-rattle sounds in his
throat and his soul departs. If he is guided back to Islam within the time when
it is possible (i.e., before death) and he performs as many of the Islamic
duties as he can, then he is a Muslim.
[Shaykh ‘Abd al-Kareem al-Khudayr]
