What happens to people who abandon Islam?
The reader probably heard about something called treason. Some countries give life in prison and others apply capital punishment for treason. Treason in religion is more serious. Let us look at how different religion define and deal with treason.
Luke 19:27 in the Bible says that Jesus said “bring those enemies who refuse that I rule over them and slay them before me”. According to this statement it doesn’t matter any religion you choose you are to be killed if you don’t follow Jesus Christ peace be upon him. This is not about conversion or leaving your religion. This applies if you just refuse to follow him according to the Bible. Please note that going from Christianity to Islam you actually love, respect and follow Jesus Christ more than a Christian does.
Let us see what Judaism says about the person who abandons his religion (called the apostate) “do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. 9You must certainly put them to death. “ Deut 13:8-9. Again the good thing here is going from Judaism to Islam you become a better Jew because you know follow, respect and love all the messengers of God more than a Jewish person.
Now in Islam It depends on the reason that you entered in the first place. Religion is not a joke. Ugly people who have ugly intentions exist, existed and will continue to exist. Rules are in place to stop ugly criminals from causing damage to people.
For example, No man can marry a Muslim woman except a Muslim man. How about if a man only pretended to accept Islam to have sex with this woman and then abandon her and destroy her life? There are also people who became Muslims with the intention to leave Islam and say lies about it and encourage people to abandon it. Allah talks about them in the Quran “And a fraction of the People of the Scripture say [to each other], "Believe in that which was revealed to the believers at the beginning of the day and reject it at its end that perhaps they will abandon their religion,” 3:72. How about those?
Well, there are two scenarios. There are people called hypocrites. They show they are Muslims but they are actually deep inside are not. Islamic ruling on those is nothing. They are left for Allah to treat them and judge them on the judgment day. Muslims are not allowed to question the heart of any person. Whatever the person does as long as he still simply says I am a Muslim.
The other scenario, are people who decide to say out loud that they denounced Islam. In the world we live today most countries do nothing about it. In fact, you will be very welcomed in many countries if you do and you will appear on TV and get famous. So your question nowadays has no real value (with all due respect).
May be your question is not for today but you just want to know the ruling for a reason in your heart so I will help you with that. When a person accepts Islam he/she are told the first day to slow down and have all his /her questions answered before proceeding because this is not a joke.
If at one point in time he or she decides to leave Islam then he or she are first made to meet a highly educated and learned scholar to answer his/her questions and make sure that this is not stemming from confusion, misconception or ignorance. If this doesnot work then he or she are convicted of treason and receive capital punishment as other religions and laws in the world today have similar punishment.
Quran says “let there be no compulsion in religion” 2:256. People have the right to choose any religion they want, but they have to know that they will go to hell after death if it is not Islam. Allah has given people intellect and tools of learning so they may be guided to Him. If they refuse to use these tools and decide to live in a different way than what He wanted for them thats ok until they meet Him then they will pay for it. This applies to all human beings before they enter Islam. You have all the time and tools in the world to
think carefully before you make this decision. You still have a second opportunity before deciding to leave it as well.
Over decades people have embraced Islam as it brought peace to their hearts. People were actually killed to denounce it but they didnot. In the early days of Islam, many people fought against Prophet Muhammad and his followers to make them denounce their religion. The first martyr in Islam was a poor woman and her husband in Mecca. Many met similar fate. Read the history. Read what the crusaders did. What the Serbs did in Bosnia in 1995. ....and on and on. Real life thing was people were killed to leave Islam but they chose to die and not change this beautiful religion. It is the only religion that teaches you have the right to pick any religion. It is the only religion that teaches love to all messengers and prophets as an indication of love and respect to Allah the one who sent them.
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In the bible
🍃Deuteronomy 13 King James Version (KJV)
6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
🍃 Exodus 22:20 ►
"Condemn to death anyone who offers sacrifices to any god except to me, the LORD.
"Anyone who sacrifices to any god other than the LORD must be destroyed.
🍃mentioning of apostasy punishment in the Old Testament proves that this punishment is a divine one.Secondly, as a Christian you are tied to the whole Bible unless there is a later command that abrogate it (for example you can't marry your sister as well as you can't do beastiality bcz the Old Testament had forbade it, although thereis no mention of it in the New Testament).Thirdly, Jesus himself said that he didn't not come to abolish the Torah, and even he asked the Christians to follow it more than the Jews themselves (Matthew 5:17-20)