Should We Boycott The French On The Issue Of Cartoons?
From what I have understood by going through all the discussion on this matter, I am summarizing all the points , please let me know wheather my understanding is correct or not because I don’t want to be in a Confusion. 1) There is no punishment for blasphemy in Shariat. 2) There is no punishment in Sharia that doesn’t mean that a Muslim state can’t do anything against blasphemy. There are two ways a state can make law against blasphemy :- A) A Muslim state can make laws against blasphemy, but not by claiming that there is punishment for blasphemy specifically, but on the basis of Injustice. B) A Muslim state can take verses of Surah Maidah (33-34) as a basis. There are certain conditions while taking this verses as a basis for making the law. i) If the accused persists in blasphemy despite several warnings, inshort is in no mood to repent or surrender and takes the stand of retialation, then only he can be termed as muharabah or Fasad fi al-ard. If the accused is a muslim he should be warned that, he should not destroy his hereafter. If the accused is a non-muslim he should be warned that, he should show concern for the sentiments of Muslims and should abstrain from such things. ii) The accused case should be filed only if he persists in blasphemy even after several warnings , but if the accused show remorse or repent then case should not be filed against him and he should be released. iii)Capital punishment is not mandatory and room for lighter sentences should be there by considering the nature of offence and the state of the offender. 3) If blasphemy is committed by a country:- 👇🏻 This is the domain of state to decide whether a blasphemy is committed at a state level by another country or not, whether that blasphemy has been taken to a point where it can be categorized as oppression soliciting a response by the state, what kind of response is appropriate in the circumstances, does state meet the conditions required for Jihad becoming obligatory etc. State has not been bound by Sharia to take any one particular measure in this regard. 4) If blasphemy is committed by an individual in a non muslim state, then ulemas or muslims of that country should give them dawat by awaring them of the truth, by reminding them their mistakes and give them reasoning. Reasoning is the only way in this situation and even if they persists then the only way is to “Ignore the Ignorant”. Protesting against those people, political members, leaders is not the right way.