Admiral Effort. We're You speaking for Islam, as a authority of the Church, the meaning would be significant. We know this to not be the case though Kalam.
Sorry; I'm confused. What isn't the case?
I renounce Murder in God's Name, by it by Jew, Christian, or Muslim. I am not a Fundamentalist Kalam, and Will not Kill without Justification, no matter Who would require it of Me.
That's reassuring, I guess. I'm not sure what the point of mentioning this was, though. Is it your contention that Islam promotes murder and killing without justification?
There certainly are, much to the chagrin of feeble discussants such as Mr. F who rely largely on quote-mining. My intention was to illustrate the fact that it is just as easy, if not easier, to make the Bible seem like an abhorrent call for death to unbelievers as it is to do so with the sublime Qur'an.
The Qur'an does not comment on the permissibility of the testimony of non-Muslims, so whether or not such testimony is acceptable is left to our discretion. The Hanafi and Hanbali jurisprudential interpretations accept the testimony of non-Muslims (Hanbali with stipulations.) I see nothing wrong with allowing it as long as the individuals are trustworthy.
God has decreed Honest impartial Testimony, not a Kangaroo Court. We have also abandoned Slavery, I recommend You consider doing the same.
Slavery is not permissible; it is clear from the words of the Qur'an that a scheme was established by Islam to gradually lead to the abolition of slavery.
It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but righteous is the one who believes in Allah, and the Last Day, and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and gives away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask and to set slaves free and keeps up prayer and pays the poor-rate; and the performers of their promise when they make a promise, and the patient in distress and affliction and in the time of conflict. These are they who are truthful; and these are they who keep their duty. - 2:177
And let those who cannot find a match keep chaste, until Allah makes them free from want out of His grace. And those of your slaves who ask for a writing (of freedom), give them the writing, if you know any good in them, and give them of the wealth of Allah which He has given you. And compel not your slave-girls to prostitution when they desire to keep chaste, in order to seek the frail goods of this worldÂ’s life. And whoever compels them, then surely after their compulsion Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. - 24:33
We recognize Freedom of Religion to be an Unalienable Right, Conversion is a Right and is not punishable by death in a Free Society.
There is no compulsion in religion -- the right way is clearly distinct from error. So whoever disbelieves in the devil and believes in Allah, he indeed lays hold on the firmest handle which shall never break. And Allah is Hearing, Knowing. - 2:256
Narrated Jabir: A bedouin came to the Prophet and said, "Please take my Pledge of allegiance for Islam." So the Prophet took from him the Pledge of allegiance for Islam. He came the next day with a fever and said to the Prophet "Cancel my pledge." But the Prophet refused and when the bedouin went away (from Medina), the Prophet said, "Medina is like a pair of bellows: It expels its impurities and brightens and clears its good."
- Sahih Bukhari, Ahkaam ("Judgments"), no. 323