Maeda 32-34
32- BECAUSE OF THAT, WE ORDAINED FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT WHOEVER KILLS A SOUL NOT FOR ANOTHER SOUL OR CAUSING MISCHIEF ON EARTH; IT IS AS IF HE KILLED ALL PEOPLE AND WHOEVER CAUSED IT TO LIVE, IT IS AS IF HE CAUSED ALL PEOPLE TO LIVE. INDEED, THEIR MESSENGERS CAME TO THEM WITH THE CLEAR SIGN, YET MANY OF THEM COMMIT EXCESSES ON EARTH.
33- INDEED THE RECOMPENSE OF THOSE WHO FIGHT ALLAH AND HIS MESSENGER AND CAUSE MISCHIEF THROUGHOUT THE EARTH; IS TO BE KILLED, CRUCIFIED, OR FOR THEIR HANDS AND FEET ON OPPOSITE SIDES TO BE CUT OF, OR TO BE EXILED FROM THE LAND. THIS IS HUMILIATION FOR THEM IN THIS LOWER LIFE AND IN THE HEREAFTER THEY WILL HAVE GREAT PUNISHMENT.
34- EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO REPENT BEFORE YOU WERE ABLE TO GET THEM, AND THEN KNOW THAT ALLAH IS MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL.
There are a number of points in these Ayahs:
First: The crime of killing one soul is like killing a number of souls, just as sinful. Also a number of people killing one person, is not different from one person killing another.
A number of men went to Medina during the life of Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him declaring their Islam. They were all sick, and therefore he advised them to stay out of Medina with the camels grassing and to drink its milk which was believed to have healing properties. Their health improved and then they killed the camel herder and put spikes in his eyes.
Allah’s messenger prayer and peace upon him sent a group of horsemen after them, and they brought them back. They were killed, their hands and feet severed in opposite sides, and their eyes spiked. This was the only time ever that Mohamed prayer and peace upon him has done such thing to any one.
On another occasion, during the rule of Omar Ibn El-Khatab as second Khalifa, a number of men killed one man, and Omar ruled that they should all be killed. Some one asked if he was going to kill so many men for one man, and Omar said: “By Allah, if the whole population of Sanaa (capital of Yemen) killed him, I would kill them”.
Therefore, a crime is not diluted for being committed by a number of people, particularly when it is killing. On the other hand if a person kills a number of people, it is as if he killed each of them individually.
Second: Fighting Allah and His messenger means fighting their faith and fighting the Muslims because of their faith, is certainly a serious sin, worse than killing “FOR PERSECUTION IS WORSE THAN KILLING” (S:2 A:191)
Third: “EXCEPT FOR THOSE WHO REPENT BEFORE YOU WERE ABLE TO GET THEM, AND THEN KNOW THAT ALLAH IS MOST FORGIVING AND MOST MERCIFUL”
Those who repent after sinning and declare their repentance before the authorities manage to get them; they are not to be punished. This is what Allah’s messenger’s companions did.
Abu Musa Al-Ashari was governor of Kofa, and a man who was causing a great deal of mischief and then went to Abu Musa and declared his repentance. Abu Musa rose and told every one not to do him any harm.
Similar thing happened when Ali Ibn Abi Taleb was Khalifa, and a man called Haretha Ibn Badr went to Ali confessing that he fought Allah and His messenger and cause mischief on earth, but he repented and declared his repentance. Ali gave him a decree of pardoning and safety.
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