Sahaba After Accepting Islam
Making assumption on exhaustiveness of all the incidents based on incidents reported in not a very academic approach. While studying past, we also ignore the ground realities of that particular time ( both political and social ) and try to judge that past based on our currently developed models of societies. One cannot comment on the exact nature of such exonerations but one can comment on such situations based on experience of how things work in an intricate society where some wrong values have become a distinct part of tribal pride and customs. Whenever some reformation happens, there are always some grey areas in the implementation of that particular social or ideological reform. And in order to ensure smooth transition, even in today’s time, some transitional provisions are introduced and at times, some exceptional cases have to be grandfathered in, and the new law is applied to future cases. There are many practical variations that can happen when applying any such change, which takes into account all the complex socio-political web surrounding the society and the best possible solutions are being implemented considering both their practical feasibility as well as some level of ease for the immediate subjects. Something similar has been done in Pakistan as well, when tribal rebel groups who were in an armed rebellion against the state in Balochistan were given a pardon for all their previous acts which includes murders as well, on the condition that they give-up their armed rebellion and become a responsible citizen of the state and will never indulge in any such activity in future. This is just an example from today’s time, one can imagine the level of complexities surrounding the tribal society of 1,400 years ago, where a big reform was about to happen.