The following verse was then revealed:
افحكم الجاهليه يبغون
"Do they seek of a judgment of (the days) ignorance?" (al Ma'idah 5:50)
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These are prime examples of how the Jews went astray by neglecting their
Lord's prescribed punishment in this issue and how they played around with
and Allah’s prescribed penalties. The Jews established the punishment upon
the weak and poor but did not do so for those who had status, strength,
wealth.
Another example of their deficiencies and negligence with clarification of the
extent of oppression,wrongdoing and disregard and abandonment of Allah's
prescribed punishment is what Abdullah bin Umar
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narrated:
"The Jews came to Allah's Apostle and mentioned to him that a
man and a lady among them had committed illegal sexual
intercourse(extra-marital affair). Allah's Apostle said to them,
"What do you find in the Torah regarding the Rajam (stoning)?"
They replied, "We only disgrace and flog them with stripes."
'Abdullah bin Salam
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said to them, 'You have told a lie the penalty
of Rajam is in the Torah.' They brought the Torah and opened it.
One of them put his hand over the verse of the Rajam and read
what was before and after it. Abdullah bin Salam said to him, "Lift
up your hand." Where he lifted it there appeared the verse of the
Rajam. So they said, "O Muhammad! He has said the truth; the
verse of the Rajam is in it (Torah)." Then Allah's Apostle ordered
that the two persons (guilty of illegal sexual intercourse) be stoned
to death, and so they were stoned, and I saw the man bending over
the woman so as to protect her from the stones."
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And Abdullah b. 'Umar also reported that:" a Jew and a Jewess
were brought to Allaah's Messenger who had committed
adultery. Allaah's Messenger came to the Jews and said: What do
you find in the Torah for one who commits adultery? They said: We
darken their faces and make them ride on the donkey with their
faces turned to the opposite direction (and their backs touching
each other), and then they are taken round (the city). He said:
Islam: The Moderate Religion
Bring the Torah if you are truthful. They brought it and recited it
until when they came to the verse pertaining to stoning, the person
who was reading placed his hand on the verse pertaining to
stoning, and read (only that which was) between his hands and
what was subsequent to that. Abdullah b. Salim who was at that
time with the Messenger of Allaah said: Command him (the
reciter) to lift his hand. He lifted it and there was, underneath that,
the verse pertaining to stoning. Allaah's Messenger pronounced
judgment about both of them and they were stoned. Abdullah b.
'Umar said: I was one of those who stoned them, and I saw the man
protecting her the woman with his body.
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This proves that Islam didn’t invent this punishment rather Islam affirmed
this punishment and implemented it with justice, contrary to the Jews who
left this punishment off and distinguished between who they punished. This
also proves that even in the time of the Prophet Muhammad the Jews tried
to alter, change and conceal texts in their holy books. One may also conclude
that the Muslims respect, honor and practice the original Torah more than
the Jews do as the Muslims implement these practices but the Jews abandon
them.
These are clear proofs from the Islamic resources describing how the Jews
were in the past. Let’s look in the Old Testament and see if we can find
anything similar to the Islamic texts. Amazingly we find the prescribed
punishment for a fornicator in the Old Testament somewhat similar to what
is in the Islamic texts, as is mentioned in Deuteronomy 22:20-25 (Dove of
Peace Catholic Edition):
"But if this charge is true, and evidence of the girl's virginity is not found,
they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her father's house and there her
townsmen shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against
Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil
from your midst. If a man is discovered having relations with a woman who
is married to another, both the man and the woman with whom he has had
relations shall die. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. If within
the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations
with her, you shall bring them both out to the gate of the city and there stone
them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in
the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. Thus shall you
purge the evil from your midst. If however, it is in the open fields that a man
comes upon such a betrothed maiden, seizes her and has relations with her,
the man alone shall die."
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