Wa/salaams,
Just read the references in the article (forget abt the rest of article just references)
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The few cases mentioned are those of habitual blasphemy perpetrated by individuals who did it without provocation or ignorance (since the Prophet PBUH was alive and infront of them as an example) and the Prophet PBUH was diviney guided in the decision regarding their fate.
Mind you these are nearly all the instances where death was decreed by the Prophet PBUH.
I say divinely guided because otherwise the hypocrites in Medina did a lot worse, yet somehow no mention of such a punishment for the chief hypocrite and slanderer who should have met the same fate if this was indeed a general punishment as decreed by Quran.
Abdullah bin Ubaee was not punished despite his mention even in Quran:
“They (hypocrites) say: If we return to Al-Madinah, indeed the the more honourable (Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul, the chief of hypocrites at al-Madinah) will expell therefrom the meaner (i.e. Allah’s Messenger Muhammad, PBUH).” (Surah Al-Munaafqun 63: 8).
Nauz U Billah He called himself ‘honourable’ and the Holy Prophet ‘mean’ despite being a Muslim and a very learned man, surely his crime was ghastly because he himself met the Prophet PBUH and saw the signs of a true messenger of Allah and converted to Islam.
Yet he spewed poison with his tongue.
The son of Abdullah-bin-Ubai himself approached the Holy Prophet (peace be on him) and sought his permission to kill his father with his own hands so that he would not be moved by revenge if someone else kills his father.
The Holy Prophet refused to grant his request, nor did he permit anyone else from among his companions to punish the hypocrite, in any manner whatsoever.
(Narrated by Ibn-e-Ishaq:Al-Seeratun-Nabawiyya by Ibn-e-Hisham Part III, p 155)
It is interesting to note that Abdullah-bin-Ubai continued to live in peace in the city of Madinah which was ruled by the Prophet Muhammad PBUH and populated by the best of Muslims, yet he did not receive the bloody retribution we so heartily seek today.
What more, when he died a natural death, his funeral prayer was led by the Holy Prophet himself!
Rest assured i can present a lot more examples but my question has not been answered by any of you.
If someone is provoked, is he to blame entirely for an ugly verbal encounter...since after all no murder has been committed, the crime is word of mouth only and that too in anger and people who stand witness are bound to be biased since mostly it is some existing feud or enmity which is being pursued under the guise of religion.
If someone today who has no idea about the Prophet PBUH is acting in anger and reacting in an unfit frame of mind, is it the same as someone who writes elaborate poetry against Allah and his Prophet PBUH even when the Prophet Muhammad PBUH is alive infront of him and warns him?
To me the answer seems clear to me.
May Allah help us reach the true conclusion and may we have enough wits to value human life and think about such things with patience.