Listening to other Christians should never become a substitute for listening to God Himself. However, according to legal historian Sadakat Kadri, while apostasy was traditionally punished by death, executions were rare because “it was widely believed” that any accused apostate “who repented by articulating the shahada” (LA ILAHA ILLALLAH “There is no God but God”) “had to be forgiven” and their punishment delayed until after Judgement Day. You especially have now an extraordinary opportunity; but if you neglect it, it will soon be with you as with those persons who spent all the precious days of youth in sin, and are now come to such a dreadful pass in blindness and hardness.- And you, children, who are unconverted, do not you know that you are going down to hell, to bear the dreadful wrath of that God, who is now angry with you every day and every night? And God said, “Let the small-minded controller determine corrections and adjustments and engage in determining rules of guidance and control.” Unfortunately, a debate about the sanctions and punishments to be inflicted in the event of a rule violation pre-empted almost all of the third day. The Hanafi jurist Sarakhsi also called for different punishments between the non-seditious religious apostasy and that of seditious and political nature, or high treason.

A minority of medieval Islamic jurists, notably the Hanafi jurist Sarakhsi (d. Hanafi scholars maintain that a female apostate should not be killed because it was forbidden to kill women under Sharia. Tariq Ramadan states that given “the way the Prophet behaved with the people who left Islam (like Hishâm and ‘Ayyash) or who converted to Christianity (such as Ubaydallah ibn Jahsh), it should be stated that one who changes her/his religion should not be killed”. Under traditional Islamic law an apostate may be given a waiting period while in incarceration to repent and accept Islam again and if not the apostate is to be killed without any reservations. He wrote, “Apostasy is not what gets one killed. Qur’anic commentators and Muslim scholars interpret (2:256) by reasoning that the truth of Islam is so self-evident that no one is in need of being coerced into it; and embracing Islam because of coercion would not benefit the convert in any case. This is why the facility of texting was availed and little bits of information were started being sent to people. Khaled Abou El Fadl explains that the verses (88:21-22) emphasizes that even the Prophet does not have the right to think of himself as a warden who has the power to coerce people.

Which amendment is the only one to have been repealed? Hudud (or Hadd) crime, that is one of six “crimes against God” a Muslim can commit, which deserves the fixed punishment of death as that is a “claim of God”. Al-Ghazali held that apostasy occurs when a Muslim denies the essential dogmas: monotheism, Muhammad’s prophecy, and the Last Judgment. In early Islamic history, after Muhammad’s death, the declaration of Prophethood by anyone was automatically deemed to be proof of apostasy. While he initially faced the death penalty, he was eventually released as he was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial. Throughout the history of Islam, proselytization of non-Muslims was recommended, while proselytization and apostasy of Muslims forbidden by law. However, Ahmadiyya Muslims are widely considered as non-Muslim apostates and persecuted by mainstream Islam, because of their beliefs. However, proselytization and apostasy of Muslims to leave Islam and join another religion is considered a religious crime by many writers.

In Islam, apostasy has been traditionally considered both a religious crime and a civil liability; the punishment for former includes death or prison while the latter leads to civil penalties. S. A. Rahman, a former Chief Justice of Pakistan, argues that there is no indication of the death penalty for apostasy in the Qur’an. The case of Abdul Rahman, an Afghan who converted from Islam to Christianity, sparked debate on the issue. Malnutrition, sickness and a lack of education can rob a child of their faith and hope that there is a God who sees them and loves them. This “Everybody Loves Raymond” character was a sports columnist. So we must not hunt them for sports or capture them. A female apostate must be either executed, according to Shafi’i, Maliki, and Hanbali schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), or imprisoned until she reverts to Islam as advocated by the Sunni Hanafi school and by Shi’a scholars. Hanafi Sunni school of jurisprudence allows waiting till execution, before children and property are seized; other schools do not consider this wait as mandatory. Therefore, in all madhhabs of Islam, (a) the property of the apostate is seized and distributed to his or her Muslim relatives; (b) his or her marriage annulled (faskh); (c) any children removed and considered ward of the Islamic state.