Blasphemy, Islam and Pakistan

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Re: Blasphemy, Islam and Pakistan

@Sa1eem

Quran 4-140: Already has He sent you Word in the Book, that when you hear the signs (Revelations, Quran) of Allah held in defiance (rejected, disbelieved) and ridicule (mocked), ye are not to sit with them unless they turn to a different theme:if ye did, ye would be like them. For Allah will collect the hypocrites and those who defy faith - all in Hell:-

Above ayah is clear that when we find people doing blasphemy, that is, rejecting, mocking, or ridiculing signs of Allah (Prophets (AS), Quran, religious books, miracles by Prophets or religious personalities, Allah or Islam … they are all signs of Allah), we should leave them alone until they stop doing blasphemy and become believer. If we join them, that could happen if we keep sitting with them listening to their blasphemy, or not leave them alone, rather argue and fight them, persecute them or whatever, than we would be similar to them … would become those who are either unbelievers or hypocrites.

Brother the words you are highlighting are meant to signify that one would have the same sin as them, not that we would be similar to them if we behaved with retribution.
I have never come across the interpretation that you are making. I have these tafsir works to highlight the standard position:

Translation of Tanwir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn Abbas

says: …i.e. if you sit with them without being coerced to do so (ye would be like unto them) in engaging in the same conversation and in showing derision…" Altafsir.com - The Tafsirs -

The relevant portion of the Translation A-Qushairi Tafsir :" …For otherwise you would surely be like them: The clearest proof of a man’s secret being is the companionship of those whom he associates with and the relationship to those whom he befriends. Like is tied to like and the branch extends outward from the trunk." Altafsir.com - The Tafsirs -

Quran 73-10: And have patience with what they say, and leave them with noble (dignity).

This verse was abrogated with the command to Jihad

English translation of Tafsir Nur ul Irfan part2 page 873
(part 1) http://marfat.com/DownloadBooks/Noor-ul-Arfan(Kanz-ul-Emaan)%201/WQB.pdf
(part 2) http://marfat.com/DownloadBooks/Noor-ul-Arfan(Kanz-ul-Emaan)%202/WQB.pdf

Quran 3-186: You shall certainly be tried and tested in your possessions and in your personal selves; and you shall certainly Hear much that will grieve you, from those who received the Book before you and from those who worship many gods. But if ye persevere patiently, and guard against evil,-then that will be a determining factor in all affairs.

Blasphemy is something that when believers hear, it brings grief to believers, and Allah tells that such grief would be test/trial for believers from Allah, as believers would bear this grief, preserves patient on the grief, and ignores the person giving grief by ignoring and moving away from that person … and that is the condition of success in such test/trial.

Those who would stay in the gathering would be unbelievers and** those who would lose patient then retaliate, would be munafiqs.** That is obvious, as those who would stay where blasphemy is going on without any reaction cannot be Muslim, but those who would stay and retaliate would not be Muslim too, as they are not Muslim for Allah but their own emotional, family or birth attachment to Islam as religion.

Underlined conclusion is wrong. There is no ‘‘in my opinion’’ regarding this, it is wrong full stop