1. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims
  2. Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

14 Questions

What is the ruling for someone who has become an apostate? Is the punishment for leaving the faith an absolute one, such as execution?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Such person should think properly to realise  the fact of Islam, and then seek forgiveness and support of Allah The Glorious, against the whispering of Shaitan.

Wassalam.
My husband has expressed that he believes Islam is fake and he no longer wants a marriage based on Islam. He later recants some of it, but he no longer prays. We are now discussing divorce. What advice can you offer to someone in my circumstance?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

It is possible that he said what he said because of some misunderstanding and he did not really mean to leave Islam. In such case, he is still a Muslim. If you are sure that he has deliberately left believing in Islam and became a non Muslim, your marriage bond with him finishes as there is no marriage between Muslim woman and non Muslim man. When there is no marriage bond, there is no question nor need for divorce as marriage has already become nil and void. If a husband becomes a non Muslim, his Muslim wife must observe Iddah of Wafat which is four months and ten days. That is after being definitely sure that he has become a non Muslim.

Leaving praying Salah does not make a person non Muslim because it can happen out if carelessness, unless he denies Salah.

Wassalam.
I have a close relative who has left Islam, and I am concerned that maintaining contact may imply my acceptance of their beliefs. Should I continue to engage with them?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

1. You should never show him or make him feel that what he has committed is accepted by you.
2. Keep a low profile level with him to be able to advise him now and in the future.

3. Ask him to open his mind to debate and try to send him some useful notes and questions regarding faith and life and hereafter etc.

Wassalam.
Is it true that during the Apostasy wars certain apostates were put to death by fire, because in the past I read a Hadith where the Prophet (S) forbade the Sahabas from using fire as a means of death?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

It is not allowed in Islam to punish with fire. If such act was done by any Muslim, it means that he did not follow the Islamic law.

Wassalam.