paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (07/02/90)
What follows is my proposed posting to soc.human.rights regarding
Islam. I encourage suggestions and discussions so that we can reach
some sort of consensus about what to post!
Thank you!
Apostacy 3:72, 3:90-91, 3:167, 4:137, 9:74, 9:107, 33:14
- do not ask for speedy doom for apostates 46:35
- God alone will punish them 73:11, 74:11
- punishment in the hereafter 2:217, 9:74
Arguments/Attacks
- respond in kind 16:126
- being patient is far better 16:126
Behavior
- argue in a kindly manner with those given earlier revelation 29:46
- avoid becoming involved in matters you know nothing of 17:36
- avoid grave sins and shameful deeds 53:32
- community should be moderate 2:143, 25:67
- conceit discouraged 4:36, 57:23
- don't chide those who seek your help 93:10
- don't consider yourself pure 53:32
- don't deride others 49:11, 104:1
- don't mention evil things openly 4:148
- don't speak ill of each other 49:12, 104:1
- don't spy on each other 49:12
- and a way of worship 22:67
- God could have made them one community 5:48, 11:118, 16:93, 42:8
- one community under God 21:92
- forgive readily 42:37
- forgive non-believers 31:15, 45:14
- maligning believers is sinful 33:58
- men (toward women) 24:30
- peacemakers rewarded 42:40
- rulers make decisions after consultations 42:38
- towards aging parents in your care 17:23
- towards other Muslims 33:6
- towards others 17:26-29, 17:35, 17:53, 60:8
- towards parents 46:15
- towards slaves 4:36
- wives of the Prophet 33:28-34
- women (toward men) 24:31
Charity 2:262-264, 2:271-274, 3:92, 3:134, 4:39, 9:60, 9:121, 30:38-39, 36:47,
47:36-38, 51:19, 52:40, 57:7, 57:10-12, 63:10, 64:16-17, 76:8, 92:18,
107:7
- during consultation with the Prophet 58:12
- during the Hajj 22:36
- niggardliness 3:180, 4:37, 25:67, 47:37, 57:24, 92:8
- not payment for favors received 92:19
- precedence of spending 2:215, 2:219
- sharing food 24:61, 89:18, 107:3
- spending to earn praise forbidden 4:38
- those displeased with distribution of 9:58, 9:76
- towards slaves 16:71
Commandments
- general religious 2:42-45, 2:83, 2:110, 2:177, 3:113-114, 3:134, 5:12,
5:55, 6:151-153, 7:33, 7:156, 8:3, 9:18, 9:20, 9:86, 9:112, 10:87, 10:93,
13:22, 14:31, 16:90, 16:110, 22:41, 22:78, 24:57, 26:181-184, 26:227,
31:3-4, 31:14-19, 35:29, 42:36-43, 58:13, 73:20, 90:13-17, 98:5
- kindness towards others 4:36
- leave company of those in the act of mocking God's law 4:140, 6:68
Conservation 6:141, 7:31
Disbelievers
- bear their company in kindness 31:15
- covenants with 9:7
- leave company of those in the act of mocking God's law 4:140, 6:68
- protect them if they ask you to 9:6
Divorce 4:130, 65:1
- after waiting period, dissolve or reconcile 2:231, 65:2
- two witnesses 65:2
- alimony 2:233, 2:241
- extends to ex-husband's heir 2:233
- can be revoked twice 2:229
- find wet-nurse if necessary 65:6
- Man
- divorce one woman for another - don't take back what you gave first 4:20
- don't harass wife 65:6
- don't hold wives against their will 4:19
- four months to change his mind 2:226
- support wife fully
- during her pregnancy 65:6
- during her waiting period 65:6
- if she's nursing your child 65:6
- mother shouldn't suffer because of her fatherless child 2:233
- pre-Islamic 58:2
- contrition to reconcile
- fast for 2 consecutive months 58:4
- feed 60 needy people 58:4
- free a slave 58:3
- reconciliation attempt 4:35
- sinless if marriage unconsummated 2:236
- bride entitled to half of the dowry 2:237
- Woman
- after third divorce (this one from another husband) can return to
original husband 2:229
- entitled to maintenance 2:241, 65:1
- equal right to divorce 2:228
- fear ill treatment by husband 4:128
- may keep what her husband gave her 2:229
- not to be expelled from their homes 65:1
- three menstruation wait to disprove pregnancy 2:228
- three month wait for those free of menstruation 65:4
- unless marriage unconsummated 33:49
Fighting 9:14, 22:39, 47:4, 48:16
- aggression forbidden 2:190
- be brave 4:104
- between two groups of believers 49:9
- do not beg for peace 47:35
- exemptions 9:122, 48:17
- asking for it for wrong reasons 9:43, 9:45, 9:49, 9:86, 9:93
- for helpless 4:98, 9:91
- for ill 4:102, 9:91
- foes cease, you must cease 2:193, 8:61
- forbidden during the four sacred months 9:36
- unless attacked 2:194,2:217
- in God's cause 4:74, 4:77, 4:84, 9:38-39, 9:41
- killing only during hostilities in progress 2:191, 4:89, 4:91, 5:33, 9:5
9:111
- sin of aggression 5:2
- when ordained 2:216-217, 4:91, 22:39, 60:8
Friends
- avoid active disbelievers 3:118-120, 5:57, 15:94, 58:14, 60:1, 60:13
- leave company of those in the act of mocking God's law 4:140, 6:68
- forbidden are those who fight against you because of your religion 60:9
Government
- decision making in public matters 3:159
- rulers make decisions after consultations 42:38
Guardianship
- proper conduct of 4:5-6, 6:151
- punishment for bad ones 4:10
- when to end it 4:6
- witnesses required to end it 4:6
Homosexuality
- regarded as evil 26:165-166, 27:55, 29:28-29
Humankind 55:33, 91:7-8
- diversity in 30:22, 35:28
- vilest are those who don't use reason 8:22
Inheritance 2:180, 89:19
- apportionment to
- children and parents 4:11
- other kin, orphans, and the needy 4:8
- siblings 4:12
- widows and widowers 4:12
- for men 4:7
- for women 4:7
- summary 4:33
Judgement 4:58, 5:8, 6:151-152, 37:53, 40:78, 45:21, 50:29, 51:6, 60:10, 69:18,
76:24, 82:9, 95:8
- be just 5:8, 5:42
- don't let hate lead judgement astray 5:8
Killing 18:74, 18:80
- another believer inconceivable unless by mistake 4:92, 48:25
- reparations for 4:92
- deliberate killing of believer and punishment 4:93
- don't 6:151
- don't harm those offering peace 4:90
- female children buried alive will ask for what crime she'd been killed
81:8-9
- hypocrites will be slain in Medina during the "War of the Confederates"
33:60-61
- not for material gain 4:94
- only during hostilities in progress 2:191, 4:89, 4:91, 5:33, 9:5, 9:111
- oppression more awesome than 2:217
- punishment for murder and spreading corruption on Earth 5:32
- retribution 2:178
Marriage 25:54
- adultery 17:32
- false accusers punishment 24:4, 24:19, 24:23
- if there aren't four witnesses 24:6-9
- punishment for 24:2
- complaints 58:1
- don't hold wives against their will 4:19
- dowry 4:4, 4:24, 4:25, 5:5, 60:10, 60:11
- other mutually agreed arrangements 4:24
- woman may return it 4:4
- forbidden to non-believers 2:221, 5:5, 60:10
- fornication forbidden 4:24, 4:25, 4:27, 5:5
- love and tenderness 30:21
- polygamy 4:3
- restrictions about 4:3
- warning against 4:129
- recline with spouses in Paradise 36:56, 40:8, 43:70
- spouses are raiment for each other 2:187
- to adopted son's ex-wife is permitted 33:37
- to single woman only 4:24
- to slave woman if need arises 4:3, 4:25
- better if men don't marry 4:25
- even if she's married before being captured 4:24
- punishment only half of free women's if immoral 4:25
- to unmarried only 24:32
Materialism 9:34, 9:55, 9:85, 28:76, 57:20, 63:9, 64:15, 68:14, 71:12, 71:22,
89:20, 92:11, 100:8, 102:1, 104:2-3, 111:2
- and the Prophet's wives 33:28
- envy forbidden 4:32, 15:88, 16:90, 20:131
- forbidden 4:29-30
- punishment for 4:30
- ruining others forbidden 4:32
- squandering 17:27, 25:67
Native peoples
- don't drive them out 2:84
- reject those who do 2:85
- driven out of their homelands 3:195
Necessity
- dire circumstances may repeal ordinances forbidding something 5:3, 16:115
Nepotism disallowed 33:40
Oppression 2:193
- blame is on oppressors 42:42
- defend against 42:39
- more awesome than killing 2:217
Orphans 2:220, 4:127
- leave their possessions 4:2-3
Patriarchy 33:5
Persecuted
- people 8:72
- those who are protectors of 8:72, 8:74
Persecutors 85:10
Sexes
- each entitled to own earnings 4:32
- equality of 3:195, 4:32, 4:124, 6:139, 9:67, 9:68, 9:71, 9:72, 16:97,
33:35, 33:58, 33:73, 40:40, 42:49, 42:50, 47:19, 48:5, 48:6, 57:13, 57:18,
60:10
- in divorce 2:228
- guides for one another 9:71
- men provide for women 4:34
Slaves 4:3, 4:24, 4:25, 4:36, 16:71, 23:6, 24:31, 24:58, 30:28, 33:50, 33:52,
33:55, 70:30
- aquisition though war 8:67
- freeing 2:177, 9:60, 24:33, 47:4
Stealing
- cutting off hands as punishment 5:38
- forgiveness for (before discovery) 5:39
- is wrong even through the judiciary 2:188
Usury 30:39
- delay repayment (forgiving debt is better) 2:278
- forbidden 2:275, 3:130
- forgive debt 2:278
- Jews took it even though forbidden to 4:161
Widows
- provisions for one year 2:240
- year in husband's home 2:240
- wait four months and ten days before remarriage 2:234
- OK to plan remarriage during waiting period 2:235
Wills 2:180, 2:240
- amending forbidden 2:181-182
- two witnesses when you declare it 5:106
- if those two should falter 5:107
Women
- accept those seeking refuge from non-believing husbands 60:10
- gross moral depravity 4:15
- punishment for 4:15
- repentence 4:16
- ill willed 4:34
- punishment for 4:34
- lack of outer garments for older 24:60
- pledges of believing women 60:12
- righteous guard intimacies revealed to them 4:34, 66:3-6