Questions (Week: 26th October To 01st November 2020)
Question-02 : Carried Forward Surah Hajj, verse 31, there is a metaphor used to describe the menace of Shirk. However, some scholars have made a claim that “ fell from the sky “, “ Bird picked at him ” and “ Wind blew him away ” were examples well known in Arab custom of that time and it mainly indicates the extreme embarrassment faced by a tribe who lost to another tribe in a war despite holding a higher ground in a fight. The losing tribe’s dead bodies were thrown away for the vultures and remaining bones were blew away by the wind. This was presented in response to critique presented by some orientalists that Quran uses unrelatable and absurd examples. Original Thread : Discussion 32978
Question-03 : Carried Forward We find many narrations in hadith corpus, where some people confessed to murder before their accepting of Islam ( like burying their daughters alive etc .) but no Qisas was taken from them and instead they were all forgiven. Similarly, some narrations speak of some intentional murders of innocents like killing of innocent woman by Khalid ibn Walid during marching of troops and he was forgiven by The Prophet (sws) despite the fact it was clear that she was an innocent woman. Some murders apparently done under blasphemy were also forgiven like that famous narration describing killing of a Slave-woman who used to do blasphemy. Original Threads : Discussion 33794 Discussion 33796 Discussion 14742 Discussion 14809
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