November 12, 2012
Apostasy, Coercion as good as Nurul's Point: It's Politics
by Anisah Shukry@www.freemalaysiatoday.com
Yet again, UMNO as good as a likes of Ibrahim Ali as good as PAS' Nasharudin Mat Isa have resorted to misusing Islam to disprove a part of of a Opposition bloc.
According to a transcript provided by Malaysiakini, Nurul Izzah Anwar pronounced during a forum last week end which "there is no constraint in sacrament How can any a single unequivocally say, 'sorry, this usually applies to non-Malays.' It has to apply equally."
Hishammuddin Hussein, a Home Minister, described Nurul's statements as unresponsive as good as causing public anger.Nasharudin, a former PAS Vice-President, pronounced which she contingency grieve as good as what she pronounced goes opposite Islam.Dr Mahathir Mohamad, a former Prime Minister, pronounced her matter was stupid.
Now, putting aside a actuality which nearly every time good ol' Hisham, Nasha as good as Mahathir open their mouths, they contend something foolish as good as unresponsive which annoy a public, Nurul, upon a alternative hand, did not contend anything "radical", "liberal", "dangerous to a faith" or even new.
On a contrary, what she pronounced has been discussed among Islamic scholars across a globe for years.It's only which no a single seems to have clued a Powers That Be upon this.
A blanket sequence for all
Nurul pronounced which there is no constraint in religion, either for Muslims or non-Muslims. And she has a point.
Islam is all about an individual's own voluntary submission to Allah; there can be no duress since conviction cannot be forced upon anyone,! even up on those Malays who have been born Muslims.
I mean, if you asked you, during gunpoint, to hold in Islam, would you? Unless you're already a believer, afterwards of march not. You'd probably blubber a bit about how being during a brink of genocide has non-stop your eyes to Islam, though your philosophy would sojourn a same.
So constraint is not a answer education is, only as Nurul referred to in a after statement. In fact, even in a Quran, Surah Al-Nahl, hymn 126 states:
"Invite [all] to a Way of thy Lord with knowledge as good as pleasing preaching; as good as disagree with them in ways which have been most appropriate as good as most gracious: for thy Lord knoweth best, who have strayed from His Path, as good as who receive guidance." (16:126 translated by Yusuf Ali)
Now, for those of you who have been going to contend which I'm no academician as good as should only keep my mouth close as good as let a experts speak it out, concede me to produce a quote from a former Chief Judge of Pakistan, SA Rahman.
"Man is free to select between law as good as fabrication as good as a Prophet's function is to communicate a message, reflect it in his own hold up as good as to leave a rest to God he is no warder over group to enforce them to adopt sold beliefs," he wrote.
This is serve fortified in multiform Islamic verses, together with Surah Ali Imran, hymn 20 as good as Al-Ma'idah, hymn 92, which state if people turn away from a summary of Islam, afterwards a Prophet Muhammad's duty is usually to educate not force nor coerce.
Freedom to select still exists
Unfortunately, you still have a likes of Nasharudin who disagree which a "no constraint in religion" hymn (2:256) usually applies to non-Muslims in a emanate of converting to Islam.
In alternative words, once a single becomes Muslim, let a duress begin! Now, you challenge him as good as alternative like-minded people to indicate out any hymn in a Qur! an which states which which arrange of stand in standard exists.Nasharudin did mention Surah al-Ahzab hymn 36 as "proof" which there is no leisure in sacrament for Muslims.
"It is not wise for a Believer, male or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah as good as His Messenger, to have any preference about their decision: if any a single disobeys Allah as good as His Messenger, he is in law upon a clearly wrong Path." (33:36 interpretation by Yusuf Ali)
But, as you can see, this hymn only states which when Allah has ordered something, it is not wise for a follower to have any preference in their matter a leisure to select still exists, as referred to multiform times in a Quran.
But while leisure exists, a Quran still states what is right as good as wrong.And if a single chooses what has been forbidden, afterwards a single will face a consequences of which decision, either in this hold up or a hereafter.
Islam as good as apostasy
Now, by virtue of a actuality which leisure of sacrament exists in Islam, does which meant Muslims, as good as Malays, have a leisure to forgo their sacrament as good as should not be coerced or punished into remaining as Muslims?
Since I'd rather not have fifteen policemen raid FMT's bureau over this article, I'll give up from stating my stand, though only share a views of multiform revered scholars in Islam who have been not Malaysians, not Malays, as good as do not have any vested domestic interest in a issue.
The former chief decider of Pakistan, SA Rahman, wrote in his book "Punishment of apostasy in Islam" that:
"There is absolutely no mention in a Quran of paltry punishment for defection from a conviction by a believer, solely in a figure of damage of a spiritual benefits of Islam or of a civil status as good as advantages which accrue to an individual as a part of of a well-knit fraternity of Muslims.
"He should, however, be free to confess as good as generate a! convict ion of his choice, so prolonged as he keeps within a bounds of law as good as morality, as good as to enjoy all alternative rights as a pacific adult of a State, in common with his Muslim co-citizens."
He also combined which apostasy is an offence in a realm of a rights of God, rather than a rights of mankind, thus there would be no pressing necessity to punish a pacific change of faith.
Meanwhile, Dr Ahmad Ar-Raysouni, a professor of beliefs of Islamic jurisprudence, wrote:
"if Allah did not require His creation towards belief in Him, nor did He permit his Prophet [pbuh] to do so instructing him, afterwards how could He allow, or order, a leaders of a Muslims to force a single to sojourn as a Muslim or lapse to it underneath a threat of death?"
Another Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, wrote:
"all of a dignified teachings of a Quran have been formed upon a idea of dignified responsibility, which entails a leisure of choice. Therefore, to state which a single contingency be put to genocide for choosing to mistrust would usually criticise a entire dignified edifice of a Quran."
Controversy over nothing
In a end, it's clear which what Nurul pronounced upon which fatal day has a basis both in a Quran as good as in a viewpoints of certain scholars.
And while some people, together with Siti Kassim, may perspective her after matter as a "retraction", you do not only since Nurul doesn't acquit nor support apostasy, doesn't meant she is denying which leisure in sacrament exists. She is only not supportive of associate Muslims creation a wrong decision.
So, really, a actuality which UMNO is latching onto this emanate as good as fanning a abandon of religious sentiments is only an additional pointer of a desperation to stay in power.
But in this case, UMNO is signing a own genocide warrant since misusing sacrament for domestic mileage does not go down good with (thinking) Malays as good as Muslims.
As for Nurul? Kudos to you for responding Siti Kassim's subject honestly as good as risking your own domestic station to do so. A Muslim should never hide a law from an additional only to save her own ass.
So you suggest a most appropriate thing for you to do from here upon out is to stick to your stand, as good as a facts which support it. Because you Muslims have been at a back of you all a way upon this.
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