Re: Death Penalty for Not Praying?
Should we not draw a distinction between tax evasion (a crime akin to theft) by an individual and treason against the state, where a group of people get together and delcare defacto autonomy? The latter was the case in Hazrat Abu Bakar’s Jihad. Zakaat happened to be the issue in which the rebellion manifested itself.
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There is a notion of privacy, as evident from a Hadith where Hazrat Omar raided a drunkard’s abode. The drunkard was not charged or punished as Hazrat Omar had also transgressed limits.
From http://www.ghazali.org/ihya/english/ihya-vol2-C6.htm:
“Once Hazrat Omar, while going at night in the city, heard sounds of songs in a house. He got over the wall and found that there was a woman with them and a pot of wine near a man. He said : 0 enemy of God, have you thought that God will keep your sin concealed ? He said : 0 Commander of the faithful, you have come yourself ! Don’t be hasty in judgement I committed one sin this time, but you have committed three sins. God said: Don’t spy, You have committed spying and therefore committed one sin. God says : 'It is not righteousness that you should come to the houses by their back-doors. ’ You have come overstepping the wall and so you have committed another sin God says : Don’t enter a house other than your own houses till you seek permission and greet their inmates-25:27 Q. You have entered my house without permission and greeting. Hazrat Omar said If I pardon you, will it do any good to you ? He said : By God, 0 Commander of the faithful, it will do me good. If you pardon me, I will never do it. Then he pardoned him and went away.”