We done had this discussion before; on at least two different threads, and I done dropped serious knowledge on both threads, but these motherfaaraxs ain't about the learning, they about the dogma, the blinder the better.
Yes, the punishment for apostasy is death in Islam.
No, it is not and never has been. Let me repeat that: Apostasy was NEVER punishable by death. People came into Islam and left Islam right in Madeenah, during the Prophet's era as well as that of Abu Bakar. Not once was apostasy punished with death.
What, unfortunately, is unable to penetrate your stubborn literalists skulls is that the GRAND TREASON is what's punishable by death. That is what the various ahaadith are referring to. When someone who was a Muslim, spies on behalf of a foreign power, or fights against the Muslim state, that and only that is what's punishable by death, because it is a criminal act of treason.
There is no intrinsic need for a logical explanation for each law, since the wisdom we see behind a law is not the reason why the law was given to us nor the reason why we should accept it and obey it
Yes, there is am absolute need for a logical explanation for any and all aspects of Islam, including the hudood laws. In the Quraan, we're constantly exhorted to think RATIONALLY and LOGICALLY and to QUESTION and to CHALLENGE. Out of the all the major faith-traditions in the world, Islam is almost uniquely cerebral, a deen of the Caql. Yet literalists want us to blindly accept religious dogma(stone lovers!; chop-chop thieves!) without exercising our God-given Caql. Why? "bikows there is no intrinsic need for it yacni". Akhi Please. You don't know what you're talking about. I don't need a hadith or an ayah to tell me that slavery is an immoral abomination that must be eradicated root & stem. My Ebbe-given FITRA automatically tells me that. And so when I see a "fadeelatu shaykh" on some bullshit tip like "slavery is xalaal, innit"....I can tell him he's full of shit and back it up with daleel, weliba.
If there is "no intrinsic need for a logical explanation", then we would be like Suufis who "take things on faith" and frown on "logical reasoning"; or the Shiica who believe in the various khuraafaat they believe in because "my ayatollah told me so" <---- Fuck that. And "my ayatollah told me so" is no different than "my shaykh told me so"
However, this is not the duty of any/every Muslim to kill anyone they find becoming an apostate, rather the Islamic caliphate should do that.
Lol. What Caliphate, fam? Whatchu tam'bout, Willis?
No such thing as a Islamic Caliphate after the Khulafaa Rashiduun.
Ummayads/Abbasids = Ay-Rab dictatorships.
Ottomans= Tuur-kick dictatorships
And so on and so forth. So where exactly in history is this Islamic Caliphate that applies hudood laws judiciously and equally? What, you expect me to allow a murderer and a theif like Mucaawiya Ina Sufyaan to apply hudood laws?
This renders your point null and void. But how about this....how about NOBODY kills NOBODY and we follow the quranic ayah: There is no compulsion in religion......Can we do that? Or is that too much to ask?
Moreover, it is not that the person is killed right away, rather He/she is given 3 days to clear any Misconceptions developed about Islam. There's something called a process not running around chopping heads off.
lol@process. double-lol@3 days. Why not make it 5 days, broski? Or how about a week. Let'
Process, you say? A process developed by who? carried out by who? The same niggaz who spent a coupla centuries massacring each other based on sectarian(ethnic and religious) beefs?
Thanks, but no thanks. My eyes knows chaotic bullshit when it sees it, and the only business I'll have with that "process" is to eradicate it, root & stem. You wanna kill someone because they used their Ebbe-given Caqli and their Ebbe-given Free Will to arrive to a voluntary decision to leave Islam? Sorry, bro, I'mma have to eradicate that "process" right quick, yacni.
So, basically, anyone who apostates can lie outright and say they've returned to the faith. Get out of jail free card.
Encouraging fraud and lying now, are we? Islam is a deen of truth and forthrightness, and here you are exploiting a perceived loophole. Like "heeeey, it's not really death-the-apostate, it's more like a flimsy law that anybody can circumvent". So much for your "textual interpretation"
Tell me: Fa'man shaa'a fal yu'min wa'man shaa'a fal yakfur <---------- aayadaas intee ka galee?, wamaa yataratabu calayhaa(and what derives from it), or do you need to call a Shaykh with PHd in "textual interpretation"?