Apostasy

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Muslims who turn their back on their religion are to be **executed** according to the words and actions of Mohammed and Allah and Islamic law.

There is a consensus by all four schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence, as well as classical Shiite jurists, that apostates from Islam must be put to death. Averroes, a Maliki jurist, provided the legal opinion on the punishment for apostasy: "An apostate is to be executed by agreement in the case of a man, because of the words of Mohammed, '**Slay those who change their religion**.'"

In the 1991 manual of Islamic Law, *Umdat al-Salik,* which is endorsed by Al-Azhar Islamic Research Academy, says on pages 595-96: "**When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostasizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed.** In such a case, it is obligatory...to ask him to repent and return to Islam. If he does it is accepted from him, but if he refuses, he is immediately killed."

* If they turn back from Islam, take hold of them and kill them wherever you find them. Koran 4:89

* Mohammed said, "If a Muslim discards his religion, kill him." Sahih Bukhari 52:260

* In the words of Mohammed, "Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him." Sahih Bukhari 84:57

* Mohammed said, "If someone changes his religion - then strike off his head." al-Muwatta of Imam Malik 36.18.15

* A man who embraces Islam, then reverts to Judaism is to be killed according to "the verdict of Allah and Mohammed." Sahih Bukhari 89:271

* "When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily apostatizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed." - *Reliance of the Traveller* o8.1 (o8.4 affirms that there is no penalty for killing an apostate).