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Prophets without any right to do so and We will emies and is a believer, you should free a believ-
say, ‘Taste the punishment of the Burning.’ ing slave. If he is from a people you have a treaty
(3:181) with, blood money should be paid to his family
Their Lord responds to them: ‘I will not let the and you should free a believing slave. Anyone
deeds of any doer among you go to waste, male who cannot find the means should fast two con-
or female–you are both the same in that respect. secutive months. This is a concession from Allah.
Those who migrated and were driven from their Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (4:92)
homes and suffered harm in My Way and fought As for anyone who kills a believer deliberately,
and were killed, I will erase their bad actions his repayment is Hell, remaining in it timelessly,
from them and admit them into Gardens with for ever. Allah is angry with him and has cursed
rivers flowing under them, as a reward from him, and has prepared for him a terrible punish-
Allah. The best of all rewards is with Allah.’ ment. (4:93)
(3:195) Because of the fact that they broke their
You who believe! Do not consume one another’s covenant, and rejected Allah’s Signs, and killed
property by false means, but only by means of the Prophets without any right to do so and said,
mutually agreed trade. And do not kill your- ‘Our hearts are uncircumcised,’ Allah has
selves. Allah is Most Merciful to you. (4:29) stamped them with disbelief, so they do not be-
If We had directed them to kill themselves or lieve except for very few. (4:155)
leave their homes, they would not have done so, And (We punished them) on account of their dis-
except for a very few. But if they had done what belief, and their utterance of a monstrous slander
they were urged to do, it would have been better against Maryam, and their saying, ‘We killed the
for them and far more strengthening. (4:66) Messiah, ‘Isa son of Maryam, Messenger of
So let those who sell the life of this world for the Allah.’ They did not kill him and they did not cru-
hereafter fight in the Way of Allah. If someone cify him but it was made to seem so to them.
fights in the Way of Allah, whether he is killed or Those who argue about him are in doubt about
is victorious, We will pay him an immense re- it. They have no real knowledge of it, just con-
ward. (4:74) jecture. But they certainly did not kill him.
They would like you to disbelieve as they disbe- (4:156-157)
lieve so that you will all be the same. Do not take Recite to them the true report of Adam’s two sons
any of them as friends until they have migrated in when they offered a sacrifice and it was accepted
the Way of Allah. But if they run away then seize from one of them but not accepted from the
them and kill them wherever you find them. Do other. The one said, ‘I shall kill you.’ The other
not take any of them as either a friend or helper. said, ‘Allah only accepts from people who guard
(4:89) against evil. Even if you do raise your hand
You will find others who desire to be safe from against me to kill me, I am not going to raise my
you and safe from their own people. Each time hand against you to kill you. Truly I fear Allah,
they are returned to dissension they are over- the Lord of all the worlds.’ (5:27-28)
whelmed by it. If they do not keep away from So his lower self persuaded him to kill his
you or submit to you or refrain from fighting, brother, and he killed him and became one of the
seize them and kill them wherever you find lost. (5:30)
them. Over such people We have given you Then Allah sent a crow which scratched at the
clear authority. (4:91) earth to show him how to conceal his brother’s
A believer should never kill another believer un- corpse. He said, ‘Woe is me! Can I not even be
less it is by mistake. Anyone who kills a believer like this crow and conceal my brother’s corpse?’
by mistake should free a believing slave and pay And he became one of those who suffer bitter re-
blood-money to his family unless they forgo it as morse on account of that. So We decreed for the
a charity. If he is from a people who are your en- tribe of Israel that if someone kills another per-
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