Page 181 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

him perform an observance is something totally incompatible
with the Qur'an. It may also be instrumental in causing that person
to feel anger against the faith and believers, and may thus harm the
community of the faithful.

The truly barbaric thing, of course, is the pronouncement that
someone who refuses to give alms should be killed. That pronounce-
ment appears nowhere in the Qur'an, and it is simply murder. The
Qur'an forbids the use of force in religion. In addition, the Qur'an
forbids the taking of human life, except under justified circum-
stances such as self-defense. As revealed in the Qur'an;

... if someone kills another person – unless it is in retaliation for
someone else or for causing corruption in the earth – it is as if he
had murdered all mankind.... (Qur'an, 5:32)

As we have seen, murder is a grave crime in the view of Islam.
So those who heedlessly turn such a weighty matter as murder into
a commandment of the faith are both slandering Islam and our
Prophet (pbuh) and also committing a terrible sin. This false hadith
is important in showing how such superstition conflicts with the true
commandments of Islam.

The Imprisonment and Starvation of

Those Who Do Not Fast

Someone who deliberately fails to fast is not an
unbeliever, but must be imprisoned and given no

food or water. (Ash-Sharh as-Saghir 1/239)

(Kifayat al-Talib 2/252) (Al-Mughni 2/408)

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