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Seerah Part 44 - Assassination of Kab ibn al-Ashraf

Seerah of Prophet Muhammad (sws) - Yasir Qadhi

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The Charge of Assassination of the Prophet Salaam

In our time, in our place technically we would put him on trial and then pronounce the verdict and then maybe execute. The reason he has been killed is not because he rejected Islam, you can be a kaffir,. It's not even because he ridiculed the Prophet sas personally. He did it when he himself now has actual political power. I don't feel the need to try to justify in light of our laws, that's something that they did and they understood it and it was understood for that point in time. If we had a theoretical modern Islamic state and the laws were different, it is not wajib to follow those types of laws in our times.

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