An article titled “A Guide to the Perplexed about the
\nPermissibility of Killing Prisoners” says Islamic scholars present five
\napproaches drawn from various interpretations of the Quran:<\/p>\n
1. A polytheist prisoner must be killed. No amnesty may be granted to him, An article titled “A Guide to the Perplexed about the Permissibility of Killing Prisoners” says Islamic scholars present five approaches drawn from various interpretations of the Quran: 1. A polytheist…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nnor can he be ransomed.
2. All infidel polytheists and the People of the
\nBook (i.e., Jews and Christians) are to be killed. They may not be granted
\namnesty, nor can they be ransomed.
3. Amnesty and ransom are the only two
\nways to deal with (surviving) prisoners.
4. Amnesty and ransom are possible
\nonly after the killing of a large number of prisoners.
5 .The Imam, or
\nsomeone acting on his behalf, can choose between killing, amnesty, ransom or
\nenslaving the prisoner. [
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