Translations:On Yedinci Lem'a/75/en
O miserable pseudo-patriot who fervently encourages Muslims to embrace this world and forcibly drives them to European industry and progress! Beware, don’t let the bonds be broken that tie certain members of this nation to religion! If thus foolishly blindly imitating and crushed under foot, their bonds with religion are broken, those irreligious people will become as harmful for social life as fatal poison. For the apostate’s conscience is completely corrupted and he becomes like poison in the life of society. It is because of this that according to the science of the principles of religion, “The apostate forfeits the right to life, whereas if an unbeliever is a member of the protected minorities or he makes peace, he has the right to life;” this is a principle of the Shari‘a.(*[1])Furthermore, according to the Hanafi school, the testimony of such an unbeliever is acceptable,(*[2])whereas the testimony of someone who has strayed from the path of the Shari‘a is rejected. For he is perfidious.(*[3])