Blasphemy, Islam and Pakistan

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Re: Blasphemy, Islam and Pakistan

@meelash

Just a small correction- hudd usually is used to refer only to those punishments which are prescribed by Islam- stealing of a certain value, fornication and adultery, accusing someone of those without witnesses, etc. In hudd laws strict requirements for witnesses, circumstances of punishment, etc. are all spelled out exactly. This blasphemy law is not a hudd punishment, rather it is from tazir punishments, that is at the discretion of the judge/authority.

So just need to use a different word when explaining it.

I was using hudd as in the sense of maximum punishment - limit … treason being punishable by death, but it should be undeniably proven, lesser than that should result in lesser punishment. A crime under the blasphemy law could also be treason, but it may be less than that … So blasphemy law seems to encase several things.

Slander in the case of false accusation to zina is punishable to the hudd of capital punishment … so likewise if slander of an innocent is being made - calling him a blasphemer, that should warrant the same punishment as what has been established for the actual crime of the particular strain of blasphemy that is said to have been made. That is what I meant when I used it above.

May Allah (SWT) reward you for the clarification … And Allah (SWT) Knows Best …