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The late antique age in which Islam arose was an intensly religious one. Then as always there were | The late antique age in which Islam arose was an intensly religious one. Then as always there were irreligious people, but every person was thought to have a "deen" or religion that governed their lives and their relation to their community in some way, whether that be Judaism, one of the infinite flavors of Christianity that permeated the Middle East at the time of the rise of Islam, the Zoroastrianism of the Sassanid Persians, or the religion of the believers. As such the tradition itself has very little to say about atheists. Scholars in later ages who have dealt with the question, though, agree that atheism is as great if not a greater crime against [[Allah]] than [[shirk]]. | ||
==Hadith== | ==Hadith== | ||
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===Ali commands to have atheists burned to death=== | ===Ali commands to have atheists burned to death=== | ||
{{Quote|1={{Bukhari| | {{Quote|1={{Bukhari|||6922|darussalam}}|2=Narrated 'Ikrima: Some '''Zanadiqa (atheists)''' were brought to 'Ali and he burnt them. The news of this event, reached Ibn 'Abbas who said, "If I had been in his place, I would not have burnt them, as Allah's Apostle forbade it, saying, 'Do not punish anybody with Allah's punishment (fire).' I would have killed them according to the statement of Allah's Apostle, 'Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.'"}} | ||
Ahmad Taheri-Iraqi writes, "Although the word zindīq/zandik was initially, in the Sassanid Empire, applied to Manichaeans as a pejorative epithet, by the time of the Islamic Epoch its usage had broadened and was loosely applied to Gnostic Dualists, agnostics, atheists, and even free-thinkers and libertines. Eventually in the later period, even up to the present time, 'zindīq' came to be synonymous with 'irreligious'."<ref>Ahmad. Zandaqa In The Early Abbasid Period With Special Reference To Poetry. University of Edinburgh. p. 3</ref> | |||
==Scholars== | ==Scholars== | ||
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Allah knows best.}} | Allah knows best.}} | ||
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==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
*[[Atheism and Islam]] | |||
{{Hub4|Non-Muslims (Primary Sources)|Non-Muslims (Primary Sources)}} | {{Hub4|Non-Muslims (Primary Sources)|Non-Muslims (Primary Sources)}} | ||
[[Category:QHS]] | [[Category:QHS]] | ||
[[Category:Atheism | [[Category:Atheism]] | ||
[[Category:Kafir (infidel)]] | [[Category:Kafir (infidel)]] | ||
[[Category:Hudud (punishments)]] | |||
[[Category:Human rights]] | |||
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