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What is the penalty for apostasy in Islam, according to the Quran?

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  • musa
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    In Islam, apostasy is sinful, but it would only be punished in the hereafter. Muslims are not keepers over those who go astray to coerce them to accept Islam against their will. The duty of any Muslim is to convey the message and if somebody turns away, then the matter is between him and God.

    Death only for those 'apostates' that turn 'renegades'.

    Mere apostates, they are free to choose what they want.

    'There is no compulsion in religion' (Quran'.

    'They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks;-

    ( سورة النساء , An-Nisa, Chapter #4, Verse #89)

    There are other verses in the Quran which clearly envisage that an apostate is to be given an opportunity until his natural death to return to the fold of Islam, and if he doesn’t his punishment is in the next life, not here: Quran 2:217: “…they will not cease fighting with you until they turn you back from your religion, if they can; and whoever of you turns back from his religion, then he dies while an unbeliever– these it is whose works shall go for nothing in this world and the hereafter, and they are the inmates of the fire; therein they shall abide.”

    An apostate has to be a traitor or a person who has joined the enemy camp to be killed. Just like in the US Constitution, or in the constitution of many other countries, the punishment of treason is also death.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Nothing,there are many examples for that Recently.Kishore Kumar a famous Indian Singer converted to Islam to marry most beautiful acttress of past Madhubala who was a Muslim.But after her death converted back to Hinduism.Christians used to kill ****** and apostates in past but even they no longer do it.

  • 8 years ago

    in other words, if you change your opinion or you change your point of view the penalty is death, am I right or not?

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