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Iranian Koran Scholar: Apply Koran 5:33 to Protesters-Crucifixion, amputation and banishment
Frontpagemagazine ^ | Dec 3, 2019 | Andrew Bostom

Posted on 12/04/2019 6:11:58 AM PST by SJackson

Abolfazl Bahrampour, is a prominent Iranian Koran scholar, and author of the widely respected “One Volume Commentary on the Koran,” (in Farsi, Qom, 2007). Interviewed on Iran’s state run television network during its daily “Eastern Sun” program, Tuesday, November 26, 2019, Bahrampour condemned those protesting Iran’s oppressive theocratic regime, en masse, as “Moharabeh”—enemies of Allah, who sew “corruption” of an Islamic societal order. Moharabeh is a standard allegation leveled against Iranian protesters, who are then routinely sentenced to death. 

Bahrampour’s fulmination advocated (video) the protesters’ appropriate Koranic punishment—per Koran 5:33.

They should be tortured to death (i.e., crucified), not just simply killed. It is the exact meaning of the verse (Koran 5:33), Our Allamah (Muslim religious scholars and authorities) are good interpreters of the Koran…if they’ve (the protesters) been dealt with in such ways, they wouldn’t dare to protest again…And they should be punished and executed publicly and where the crime was actually committed…their hands a feet should be cut off on oppsote sides in the worst way possible…

Here is the verbatim translation of Koran 5:33:

“Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.”

Radio Farda reported that even an Iranian regime cleric, Ayatollah Kazem Qazizade, allegedly dissented from Bahrampour’s draconian, if Sharia-sanctioned punishment.

Notwithstanding Ayatollah Qazizade’s contention, Koran expert Bahrampour’s understanding of Koran 5:33, and its potential application to the recently arrested protesters, is entirely consistent with that of the most authoritative modern Shiite Koranic commentator, Allameh Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai (d. 1981), and his gloss on this verse.

The mainstream Islamic Studies academy—both Western and Iranian—has designated Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai the leading modern Shiite religious scholar and philosopher, dubbing him a “theosopher.” Allameh [Allamah] Tabatabaei [Tabatabai] University, named in honor of this celebrated Shiite authority and “theosopher,” is the largest specialized state social sciences university in Iran and the Middle East, with 17000 students and 500 full-time faculty members. Affirming his continued lofty stature, and relevance, an Iranian national conference was held on May 3, 2012, in Qom, dedicated to “recognizing the interpretative methods and principles used by Allameh [Allamah] Tabatabaee [Tabatabai] in [his Koranic] exegesis.” Tabatabai’s al-Mizān fi tafsir al-Qurʾān “The measure of balance/justly held scales in the interpretation of the Quran,” a 21-volume Arabic opus, which is regarded as the most important contemporary Shiite Koranic commentary.

Tabatabai’s authoritative gloss on Koran 5:33, clearly comports with Bahrampour’s interpretation of its deserving application to punishment of the protesters:

T]he metaphorical meaning is very wide and it can be applied on disobeying any rule of the shariaTherefore, waging war and making mischief obviously mean the same thing, i.e. disturbing general law and order. Law and order is upset when fear and anxiety prevail in society…The words: “their hands and their feet should be cut off on  opposite sides,” mean that if the hand is cut on the right side, the foot  should be cut on the left; this only shows that cutting the hands and  the feet means cutting one hand and one foot (on opposite sides), not both hands and both feet.

It has been argued on the strength of this verse that if the prescribed punishment is meted out to a guilty man, it does not necessarily mean that he will not be punished in the hereafter;…        

[It has been narrated through various Sunnī chains; and some of their traditions say that it depends on Imam's discretion, he shall kill if he  pleases, and shall crucify if he pleases, and shall cut off hands and feet on opposite sides if he pleases, and shall banish if he pleases. Some Shiah traditions too likewise say that the Imam has the discretion. For example, see the tradition narrated in al-Kafī from Jamīl ibn Darraj  from as-Sadiq (a.s.) about this verse: He says: "I said, 'What are they  liable to form these prescribed punishments that Allah has named?' He  said, 'It is up to [the] Imam; he shall cut off if he pleases, and banish if he  pleases, and crucify if he pleases, and kill if he pleases.' ”

Tabatabai’s uniquely “learned” imprimatur to such Sharia-mandated barbarity—reiterated by Bahrampour—engendered these apposite observations by an Iranian freethinking, conscientious objector to Islam which all intellectually honest, moral persons should digest:

“This is the real Islam. This Quran teacher (Bahrampour) explains exactly, from verses of the Quran. Here is Iran… It is the reality of the Quran and Islam that this Quranic teacher (Bahrampour) expresses without hesitation. Muslim rulers. Muslim people. Islamic laws…Killing people according to the Koran. What exactly do you protest if you are a Muslim?”



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1 posted on 12/04/2019 6:11:59 AM PST by SJackson
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2 posted on 12/04/2019 6:12:26 AM PST by SJackson (blow in a dogÂ’s face, he gets mad at you, car ride; he sticks his head out the window)
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To: SJackson

“RULE .303”..... BREAKER MORANT


3 posted on 12/04/2019 6:22:12 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: SJackson

And people wonder why so many people cannot see why Islam is not a legitimate religion. It is a conquest which can never end.

Here you have it. Islamofascism.

And its either them or us. That’s a fact.


4 posted on 12/04/2019 6:29:04 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: SJackson

This man can watch people imprisoned, tortured, killed in the most gruesome manner and then go home and sleep well. He literally believes that such horrors serve God. His conscience is clear. He derives pleasure from witnessing such things and is diffusely anxious if they do not occur.
Sadly people in the neo pagan, post Christian West fail to realize that this man and the many people like him are not compatible with and are a threat to what remains of their culture and heritage. Instead they even more avidly embrace their globalist delusions when confronted with such bizarre thinking and horrible behavior.


5 posted on 12/04/2019 6:44:25 AM PST by allendale (.)
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To: SJackson

There is nothing in the book that even remotely qualifies it as a religion of peace.


6 posted on 12/04/2019 6:46:12 AM PST by robel
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To: robel
There is nothing in the book that even remotely qualifies it as a religion, of peace in any way, shape or form.
7 posted on 12/04/2019 7:06:44 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: SJackson

BRIAN: What will they do to me?

BEN: Oh, you’ll probably get away with crucifixion.

BRIAN: Crucifixion?!

BEN: Yeah, first offence.


8 posted on 12/04/2019 7:32:16 AM PST by CrazyIvan (The Democrat party. A collaboration of Cloward-Piven and Dunning-Kruger.)
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To: SJackson

Notice the close connection between *slam and government in iran? That’s *slam, a political movement cleverly disguised as a religion.


9 posted on 12/04/2019 7:32:38 AM PST by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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To: SJackson

The evil of this “religion”, is incalculable. I listened to Ravi Zacharias, a Christian apologist, the other day. A former member of Mossad told him that when muslim suicide bombers prepare for their bombing, they wear a sort of lead girdle around their waist and private parts, so they’ll still be intact when they get to “paradise”, and have the ability to rape those 72 virgins they are promised.
(Apparently, women who remained chaste virgins here on earth, are rewarded by allah, in paradise, for their chastity, by being raped. What a god, huh?)


10 posted on 12/04/2019 7:39:41 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: SJackson

It’s their funeral:-{


11 posted on 12/04/2019 8:09:16 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: robel
There is nothing in the book that even remotely qualifies it as a religion of peace.

try the religion of peace.com....very interesting site

12 posted on 12/04/2019 6:18:32 PM PST by terycarl (Notre Dame was God's way of pointing out that France has fallen from His favor....)
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To: CrazyIvan

NISUS WETTUS: Next. Crucifixion?

PRISONER #1: Yes.

NISUS: Good. Out of the door. Line on the left. One cross each. Next. Crucifixion?

PRISONER #2: Yes.

NISUS: Good. Out of the door. Line on the left. One cross each. Next. Crucifixion?

MR. CHEEKY: Ah, no. Freedom.

JAILER: Hmm?

NISUS: What?

MR. CHEEKY: Eh, freedom for me. They said I hadn’t done anything, so I could go free and live on an island somewhere.

NISUS: Oh. Oh, well, that’s jolly good. Well, off you go, then.

MR. CHEEKY: Naa, I’m only pulling your leg. It’s crucifixion, really.

NISUS: Oh, ho ho.

MR. CHEEKY: Heh heh heh hehh.

NISUS: I see. Uh, very good. Very good. Well, out of the door. One—

MR. CHEEKY: Yeah. I know the way. Out of the door.

NISUS: Line on—

MR. CHEEKY: One cross each. Line on the left.

NISUS: Line on the left.

MR. CHEEKY: Heh heh.

NISUS: Yes. Thank you. Crucifixion?

PRISONER #4: Yes.

NISUS: Good.


13 posted on 12/04/2019 6:20:47 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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