Re: Blasphemy
If you click on that link posted above, there is a list of battles. In it are listed a brief summary of who was executed. One of the battles, for examples, states, x number of people were beheaded.
-One, I question accuracy. Because there is a hadith about one beheading that was done by an early muslim of a kaafir. That kaafir individual was a Meccan who used to mock Rasulullah A LOT, and was central in the fight against early Islam. When he was killed, he asked for mercy, and the muslim soldier still killed him. He brought the head to Muhammad (SAW) who was upset that despite asking for mercy, this individual was killed. The soldier was startled, and said that the enemy was about to kill him, and the Prophet (SAW) educated that it would have been better you had not killed him, and granted him mercy. Even if it was a trick and he killed YOU, you would have been a martyr, but now you’ll have to answer to Allah for taking the life of someone who was asking for mercy.
There are clear verses in the Quran, if the opposing side asks for mercy, you let them go. You also do not engage in war with people who are innocent bystanders and you do not engage with neutral tribes/communities who want nothing to do with the war.
So a lot of what’s listed in that wikipedia article…not sure who wrote it, but they may have an agenda to make the early muslims look more bloody than they were.
There are clear verses in the Quran that if someone doesn’t believe and you’ve talked to them, and they still don’t want to believe, then you leave them alone. There is mention of people who believe, then stop believing, and for them too, it’s very clear. You try to talk to them, they don’t listen, then Allah has promised he will take care of anyone who didn’t believe Him on Judgement Day. The absence of a worldly punishment means no one can kill another person for NOT believing in Allah. There is no punishment perscribed either for people who convert out of Islam.
Allah directed Muhammad (SAW) to do certain things, but he was also allowed to have like 9 wives, that’s not allowed for other muslim men, so there are commandments that do not transfer to other muslim leaders.
Jihad is a act that a community agrees upon. You don’t live in a muslim country and start calling jihad on other muslims who aren’t as “religious” as you.
Comon. Common sense.