Dawah Tips: Murder, Rape and Circumcision

The punishment for rape is death to the one who performed the act of rape;

The punishment thereto (for rape) is death by execution. He will not be entitled to any pardon or reprieve whatsoever, regardless of whether he was single or married.

The one who forces sex upon someone else under threat of death is an evil and vile member of the society and should be purged. He is involved in an act of open violence and transgression against others and the spread of mischief throughout the land. His is the fate of bandits and highway robbers:

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A woman will not be punished if there is any reason to believe that she was forced into the act. The least evidence in this regard will be sufficient to save the woman from punishment. Our Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “Allah has pardoned my people for the acts they do by mistake, due to forgetfulness, and what they are coerced into doing” [Related by Ibn Mâjah and authenticated by al-Nawawî, Ibn Hajr, and al-Albânî].

Also, it was related by Ibn Abî Shaybah through Târiq b. Shahâb that a woman accused of adultery was taken to Caliph `Umar. The woman pleaded that she was asleep and woke up to find the man over her. `Umar released the woman. [The narration was approved by al-Albâni]. Ibn Qudâmah stated in his book al-Mughnî: “There is no punishment on the woman who was coerced into adultery.”

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Furthermore, Allah tells us in the Qur'an;

No burdened person (with sins) shall bear the burden (sins) of another [Qur'an al Najm 52:28]

So no woman will be responsible for the sin of another man.

Islam preserves life, and that is one of the principles of Shari'ah [Islamic law].
5. Islam prohibits the taking of human life, whether that life be one’s own or that of someone else.

Allah says:

Do not kill yourselves. Verily Allah is to you Most Merciful.[Qur'an 4:29]

The crime of murder is deplorable, so much so that taking one life is considered equivalent to killing all of mankind. Allah says:

Whoever kills a person, not in retaliation for murder or iniquity in the Earth, then it would be as if he killed all of mankind.[Qur'an 5:32]

Allah also says:

Do not kill a person whose life Allah has made sacred except in the dispensation of justice.

He says:

Whoever kills a believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell, abiding therein. Allah’s wrath is upon him, and His curse; and He has prepared for him a great punishment.

In an authentic hadîth, it is related that Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: