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'Stoning to Death' is an unpardonable Sin in Islam... (Saudi publishers have edited and added texts to the original commentaries by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, to justify their beliefs) Comments: An individual or an organized body that has the power and authority to dispense justice and knowingly refuses to pronounce judgment based upon the Divinely Ordained Laws of Allah that are duly prescribed in the Qur'an, and by design opts to convict anyone on the bases of the prophetic traditions has knowingly committed the unpardonable sin of SHIRK. That entity has meaningfully placed "Sunnat ur Rasool" (The Law of the Prophet), over and above "Sunnat ul 'llah" (The Law of Allah). Introduction... In the month of October 2001, a Nigerian Muslimah -- Safiya Hussaini, was sentenced to death by an Islamic Sharia Court. On March 25, 2002 that sentence was overturned on a technical ground, by an Islamic Appeal Court of Sokoto, Northern Nigeria. The appeal judges ruled that the act of adultery had taken place before it had been made illegal under the Sharia Laws. In the nearby State of Katsina, another Nigerian woman has recently been sentenced to be stoned for adultery. It is a sacred duty of every believing Muslim and Muslimah to lodge strong protests and make every effort to see that this fundamentally flawed and basically unIslamic sentencing of 'Stoning to Death' is banned and made illegal within the Islamic Ummah, throughout the world. Allah's Supreme Law, in Sura
An-Nur (24):
24: 1 A Sura which We have sent down and which We have ordained: In it have We sent down Clear Signs, in order that ye may receive admonition.Note: Allah (s.w.t.) knows the past and the future. The opening verse clearly states that Allah has Himself ORDAINED the Clear Signs in this Sura Nur, so that we may receive the CAUTION and WARNING (admonition) from it. In the next verse it is Revealed that "if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day" then carry out the penalty PRESCRIBED BY HIM for the sin of adultery or fornication. Please note precisely that Yusuf Ali has clearly mentioned both "adultery" and "fornication" in his translation. One may also bear in mind that there is not a single verse within the revealed verses of the Qur'an wherein the penalty of "Stoning to Death" (Penalty of Rajam) is prescribed by Allah, for any crime or sin. ORIGINAL commentary by Abdullah Yusuf Ali for verse 24: 2: Zina includes sexual intercourse between a man and a woman not married to each other. It therefore applies both to adultery (which implies that one or both of the parties are married to a person or persons other than the ones concerned) and to fornication, which, in its strict signification, implies that both parties are unmarried. The law of marriage and divorce is made easy in Islam, so that there may be the less temptation for intercourse outside the well-defined incidents of marriage. This makes for greater self-respect for both man and woman. Other sex offences are also punishable, but this Section applies strictly to Zina as above defined. (end of the original commentary).Here is the SUPERFLUOUS TEXT added to the above commentary by The Presidency of Islamic Researches, IFTA, Call and Guidance, Saudi Arabia, in their Revised Editions: Although zina covers both fornication and adultery, in the opinion of Muslim jurists, the punishment laid down here applies only to unmarried persons. As for married persons, their punishment, according to the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace be on him), is stoning to death.A DECEPTION: There is no mention that the above superfluous text has not been authored by Yusuf Ali and the added text has been added later on by the publishers. A reader who does not have the original edition for comparison would understand in good faith that the text for "stoning to death" was also written by the translator Late Abdullah Yusuf Ali. Most Recent News on BBC (July 20, 1908) At least eight women and one man are reported to have been sentenced to death by stoning in Iran. To read the News visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7516238.stm CAUTION: This act of injecting text within the Original Commentary happens to be just one of the several examples that are to be found in the REVISED & EDITED version of Abdullah Yusuf Ali's translations that are in circulation. Most of these edited copies have Green Covers. If you wish to read the Original Translated Text or the Original Comments written by Late Abdullah Yusuf Ali please purchase copies that are published from Lahore, Pakistan or from South Africa, most of them have White covers. Note: No critical details are provided by the publishers, such as; (a) The name(s) of the commentator(s) for these additional comments. (b) The names of Muslim jurists. (c) The basis for their having such a dualistic view for zina. TWO more commentaries that support the ORIGINAL commentary by Abdullah Yusuf Ali: In 'Tafsir-ul-Quran' volume III, the commentary written by Maulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi of India for the above verse reads: The Arabic word zanaa denotes sexual intercourse between any man and woman, whether married or not, who do not stand to each other in the relation of husband and wife; and, as such, has no single word equivalent in English language. It includes both adultery (i.e. illicit sexual intercourse of two persons either of whom is married to a third person) and fornication (i.e. illicit sexual intercourse of unmarried persons).Commentary by the translator Muhammad Asad reads: The term zina signifies voluntary sexual intercourse between a man and a woman not married to one another, irrespective of whether one or both of them are married to other persons or not: hence, it does not -- in contrast with the usage prevalent in most Western languages -- differentiate between the concepts of "adultery" (i.e., sexual intercourse of a married man with a woman other than his wife, or of a married woman with a man other than her husband) and "fornication" (i.e., sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons).Two noteworthy verses from the Qur'an: ... no change can there be in the Words of Allah. This is indeed the supreme Felicity. Surah 10, verse 64 Those to whom We have sent the book study it as it should be studied; they are the ones that believe therein; those who reject faith therein the loss is their own. Surah 2, verse 121Note: Substituting the Divine Command with anything else amounts to REJECTING it, and thereby, loosing one's faith in Allah. Those who advocate the "Stoning to Death" to be a better deterrent than "flogging" are in reality promoting their personal beliefs above the Wisdom and Knowledge of Allah. Period of the Revelation of Sura Nur: The consensus of opinion is that it was sent down after the Campaign against Bani al-Mustaliq and this is confirmed by vv. 11-20 that deal with the incident of the "Slander", which occurred during that Campaign. In other words, the Sura was revealed in around 6 A. H. The next obvious question would be was the penalty of "Stoning to Death" proclaimed by the Prophet (s.a.s.) before or after Revelation of Sura Nur. It is inconceivable that the Prophet who has been declared as the best of the examples for the Ummah, could reject the Revealed Divine Penalty and dictate his own. Almighty Allah is Supreme happens to be the uncompromising basic belief of Islam. If the penalty of stoning to death was proclaimed by the Prophet prior to the Revelation of Sura Nur then that proclamation became null and void the day Sura Nur was Revealed for mankind. Here is an interesting narration from Al-Bukhari: Narrated Ash ShaibaniSura Nur (24) verse 3: Let no man guilty of adultery or fornication marry any but a woman similarly guilty or an Unbeliever nor let any but such a man or an Unbeliever marry such a woman: to the Believers such a thing is forbidden.Note: If DEATH was the Divine Penalty for men and women guilty of adultery or fornication, then Allah (s.w.t.) would not have Revealed the above verse which speaks of having sexual relationships within the guilty parties. In other words the guilty parties be allowed to live and marry among them. An Earnest Appeal... Do your best to save the life of this Nigerian woman of Katsina... ...We ordained for the Children of Israel that if anyone slew a person unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if anyone saved a life it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people...
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