Playing God

"All rights of this book are reserved for the publisher and the author. This copy is for reading purpose only. This copy cannot be uploaded on any website except those of the publisher and the author." Playing God: Misreading a Divine Practice 42 be established with the Almighty and even though non- Muslims who have deliberately denied the truth may exist today, they cannot be humanly identified. Hence these directives cannot be related to non- Muslims of today. Here is a summary of these directives: i. The Pun ishment of Apostasy ii. Waging War against Non-Muslims iii. Dhimm ī Status of Non-Muslim Minorities iv. Prohibition of Fr iendship with Non-Muslims v. The Superi ority of M uslim Blood vi. Greeting Non-Muslims in an Inferior Way vii. Non-Muslims to be Doomed in the Hereafter viii. Assassination of Non-Muslims ix. Prohibition of asking for Forgiveness for Non- Muslims x. Prohibition of Inheritance between Muslims and Non-Muslims xi. Prohibition of Testimony of Non-Muslims xii. Prohibition of Imitating Non-Muslims xiii. Struggle for the Supremacy of Islam I will now elaborate upon each of these: i. The Punishment of Apostasy According to almost all Muslim jurists, 24 a Muslim who 24 . See, for example: Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd, Bid ā yah al-mujtahid wa nih ā yah al-muqtasid , 1 st ed., vol. 4 (Beirut: D ā r al-ma‘rifah, 1997), 304; ‘Abd al-Rahm ā n Jaz ī r ī , Kit ā b al-fiqh ‘al ā madh ā hib al-arba‘ah , 7 th ed., vol. 5 www.javedahmadghamidi.com www.al-mawrid.org