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Does Hudud really exist?

Most Muslims believe that Hudud, in particular the law onstoning adulteress women to death, was a law that wasintroduced by Prophet Muhammad. Actually it was not.This law was introduced by Umar ibn Al-Khattb, theSecond Caliph who took over after the death of AbuBakar As-iddq.

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Present day Hudud and Mary in the Quran: One BIGQuestion

According to present day Hudud laws as proposed byPAS,

1. is punishable upon conviction by stoning to deathZinafor a married person.

2. Whipping of 100 lashes plus one year imprisonment forthe unmarried.

3. Four eye-witnesses will be required to prove the act.Each witness must be an adult ( ) Muslim male of just character.akil baligh

4. Pregnancy on the part of an unmarried woman or when she delivers a child shall be evidence of ofzinawhich would make her liable to the prescribed punishment unless she can proof the contrary – i.e. to bring4 male Muslim witnesses of just character if she was raped.

Traditional Islam interprets Quranic verses about Mary, mother of Jesus as a woman who had a virginbirth (refer for example Quran 19:20 -22, 66:12). When Mary brought baby Jesus to the temple, she wasinsulted and mocked by all the men (except Zechariah) questioning how she came to be with a child asshe was still single. According to the Quran, Jesus began to speak in the cradle to defend her mother(Refer Quran 19: 27-33)

The question.

How would modern day Hudud deal with Mary (the most exalted woman in the Quran, Quran 3:42) as she



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could not show 4 male Muslim witnesses of just character?akil baligh

Note: as an infant, Jesus was not .akil baligh

Peace,

Anas Zubedy

http://letusaddvalue.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/present-day-hudud-and-mary-in-quran-one.html

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Hudud is the current raging debate in Malaysia. It even overshadows the MAS MH370 mystery and thepossible outbreak of WWIII due to developments in the Crimea. Nevertheless, my opinion is that thedebate on Hudud is all over the place and is not focused on the core issue of what Hudud is all about.

Hudud is just one of the many branches of Islamic laws and it only deals with seven crimes. Hudud is notthe entire Islamic law. It is just a portion of the many Islamic laws. And Hudud is not just about cutting offthe hands of thieves and robbers, as many seem to think.

The Islamic laws, also known as Sharia laws, already exist in Malaysia. And it has existed long beforeMerdeka. In fact, Malaysia even has Sharia courts to decide on these laws. So, Sharia laws are notsomething that is new to Malaysia. The only thing is the Sharia laws are not, according to some Muslims,complete. While many may already be covered, some are still not. And the Hudud branch of these Sharialaws is one of those not yet covered.

Hence the debate on Hudud is not about introducing Islamic laws to Malaysia. Islamic laws already existin Malaysia. It is about making these laws complete because they are not yet complete since Hudud is stillnot part of those laws.

While most debaters are focused on the part regarding cutting off the hands of thieves and robbers, Anashas raised the matter of stoning to death for adulteresses in his short piece above. While everyone isarguing about the cutting off the hands of thieves and robbers, no one appears concerned about this othermatter where women who cheat on their husbands can get stoned to death under the Islamic Sharia lawof Hudud.

Most Muslims believe that Hudud, in particular the law on stoning adulteress women to death, was a lawthat was introduced by Prophet Muhammad. Actually it was not. This law was introduced by Umar ibnAl-Khattb, the Second Caliph who took over after the death of Abu Bakar As-iddq. Hence it was Umar andnot Prophet Muhammad who made this into law.

Umar was actually a very strict disciplinarian and was most feared for his temper and harsh treatment ofwomen and ‘deviants’. He even punished those he caught writing what today we refer to as Hadith orsayings of the Prophet. Hence during Umar’s time no Hadith were allowed unless you want to get whippedand kicked. It is therefore no wonder that the Hadith were written more than 150-250 years after the timeof Umar.

Before the time of Umar, women could pray side-by-side with the men and even joined the men to go to


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war. Islamic history reports that Prophet Muhammad’s first wife, Khatijah, was a successful andprosperous businesswoman. And it was she who proposed marriage to Prophet Muhammad and not theother way around. Hence women were more liberated in that society more than 1,000 years beforewestern women understood the meaning of women’s liberation.

That, however, changed when Umar took over as Caliph. Umar tried to confine women to their homes andforbade them from joining the men in prayer in the mosques. He also enforced segregation between menand women and introduced harsh laws against women.

One of these harsh laws was the stoning to death of adulteresses. There is no verse in the Qur’ansupporting this law but Umar agued that this law was actually part of the revelation but was somehowexcluded when the text of the Qur’an was formalised after the death of Prophet Muhammad. Umar,however, did not explain how this law was accidentally excluded from the Qur’an.

Since then various Hadith were created, almost 200 to almost 300 years after the death of the Prophet, tosupport the argument that it was Prophet Muhammad who introduced the law of stoning to death foradulteresses. This is not true. It was not Prophet Muhammad but Umar who did this.

This is something most Muslims would not want to admit. In fact, most Muslims do not even know wherethe Hudud law of stoning adulteresses to death came from. They believe that this law came from Godthrough Prophet Muhammad because most Muslims put the Hadith above the Qur’an. And when theyargue their case they would quote the Hadith and not the Qur’an. And if you dispute this they would labelyou as anti-Hadith and therefore an apostate or heretic. And people like Kassim Ahmad have beenarrested and charged for the so-called crime of disputing and/or rejecting the Hadith.

Hence very few Muslims would dare dispute or question the Hadith, in particular those concerning theHudud law of stoning to death for adulteresses unless, like me, you live in the UK and are out of the reachof the Malaysian religious authorities.

(Now do you know why it is impossible for me to return to Malaysia even if Rosmah Mansor forgives mefor that Statutory Declaration which I signed in June 2008? They will pick me up at the airport for crimesagainst Islam or for deviationist teachings.)

So, if it was not God through Prophet Muhammad who introduced the law of stoning to death foradulteresses and if this law is one of the laws of Hudud, did Hudud come from God through ProphetMuhammad or was Hudud a later invention of male Muslims who wanted to dominate female Muslims?

We must remember that all religions are patriarchal and not matriarchal. Hence religions always favourmen and are unfavourable towards women. Before the time of Muhammad, women could marry morethan one husband (and women like Khatijah could propose marriage). Later on women got stoned todeath for marrying more than one husband while men can marry more than one wife and became theproperty of the husband.

I suggest non-Muslim readers refrain from posting comments to allow the Muslim readers to whack meand call me all sorts of names and suggest that I go and learn more regarding Islam before I attempt anyarticles on Islam.



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