Abolfazl Sabouri

Abolfazl Sabouri is based in New Zealand and has an MA in Jurisprudence and Islamic Studies. He is a graduate of Elmiyeh seminary in Qom with more than 15 years of study and research where he has also taught Tafsir, Theology and Jurisprudence.

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God (Allah) . Qur'an . Punishment . Divine Mercy

How can a loving and merciful God, my own Creator, be so severe in punishment according to the Qur’an that describes various horrific punishments?

Abolfazl Sabouri, Abolfazl Sabouri is based in New Zealand and has an MA in Jurisprudence and Islamic Studies. He is a graduate of Elmiyeh seminary in Qom with more than 15 years of study and research where he has... Answered 9 months ago

To complete the answers:

To inter heaven the person must be pure and perfect. Punishment is because of the mercy of God to pure the one who has infected himself by his own will.

Therefore, in chapter al-Rahman, hellfire has been counted as one of the blessings of Allah.

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Man . Woman . Marriage . Mahram

Could you explain the practice of having slaves at the time of the Ahlulbayt (as)? Were male slaves mahram to the women of the house? And could men have relations with female slaves without marrying them?

According to Islam all humans are the servants of Allah and slavery is wrong. However the time of Prophet a lot of people were slave and slavery was acceptable in the world. Islam started to teach people that it is wrong and to free the slaves step by step . First Islam gave them rights and made rules to support them....

Anyway according to Islam the female slaves were like the wife of the owner and the male slaves were mahram.

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Islam . Qur'an . Apostasy (Irtidad)

What is the ruling on someone who leaves Islam? Should that person be punished in any way? If so, is there any evidence for such punishment in the Qur’an?

If he started propagating against Islam, then he/she will be punished.

Verse 3:86 & 87 in the Quran are about irtedad but it is not about punishment. It is in ahadith.

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Prophets . Man

Why were all the Prophets and Messengers men?

When we say Prophet, if we mean that high level of humanity it was and it is possible even for women to be Prophet, to receive message from Allah at least for herself.

But Prophet as a person who receives message from Allah and send it to people :

1. It is not easy to prove that all Messengers were men, as we do not know all of them.

2. (if we accept that all of them were men) It was a hard job that according to situations of that time it was not proper for women.

3. According to understanding of some scholars from Quran, saint Mary was a Prophet! So even women could be Messengers.