Iranian Koran Expert: Apply Koran 5:33 to Crucify, Amputate Protesters

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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…

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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 Sunni 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-Kafi from Jamil 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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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

Pamela is right. This website shows 7 different English translations, and they all say essentially the same thing:
http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=5&verse=33
The “Arberry” translation is the ‘nicest’:
Koran 5:33 – “This is the recompense of those who fight against God and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement.”
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Essentially, to live in the West, Muslims must choose between the Koran, and Western laws and morality. It is really just one or the other. What some Muslim apostates do, is ignore the ‘nasty passages’, and stick with the ‘nice passages’ of the Koran and Hadith. Then they try to accommodate themselves to Western life. But this is difficult, because each Muslim must set their own beliefs, because there is no “Reformed Mosque” that lays out the modern morals for Westernized Muslims.

I see this in my Muslim friends, who just seem confused about their won morality, and they make up a kind of ad hoc mish-mash of Islamic and Western beliefs, just to get through their lives.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

The “nice passages” of the quranus have been ABROGATED by the Medinan verses of war — there is no debating this point as the holey quranus itself addresses this EXACT point:

“2.106: Whatever communications We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We
bring one better than it or like it. Do you not know that Allah has power
over all things?”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/10/the-islamic-doctrine-of-abrogation.html

Old Vet
Old Vet
4 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Why not tell them to shed this cloak of immorality called Islam for the real world of GOD!!

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
4 years ago

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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

trust me says the best of deceivers

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
4 years ago

“…… I have been careful about when I describe these issues is to make sure that we do not lump these murderers into the billion Muslims that exist around the world, including in this country, who are peaceful, who are responsible, who, in this country, are fellow troops and police officers and fire fighters and teachers and neighbors and friends.” ~ Barack H. Obama

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angry american
angry american
4 years ago

and which bathroom to use

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

sounds like domestic terrorism to this bacon eating kufar

Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
4 years ago

While Muhammadists continue to treat people unjustly, people in Non-muhammadist countries are busy feeding dogs they use to terrorize neighborhood-lawns.
And what do they do with these dogs, they use’em as sex-slaves.
They don’t have a wife so they use them as sexy slaves.
They put clothes on dogs, gloves, hats, all type of lingerie & put leashes on them.
You might think it’s just like this, but one time when you smell dog-shit from your bicycle-tire, your shoe-sole or from somebody’s shoes somebody forces into your home, you realize I am right.

Andrew
Andrew
4 years ago

Judging by how they suppress Yellow Vest protesters French police must enjoy this part of the Koran’s edit to use brutality against opponents of the Macron regime. See WATCH French riot police knock down elderly woman… during rally for 80yo who died after getting hit by tear gas grenade https://www.rt.com/news/474793-french-police-knock-old-woman/

angry american
angry american
4 years ago

kill all mudslimes

Mohammed_Goldberg
Mohammed_Goldberg
4 years ago

The only use I have for the Koran, is in my personal mosque, known as the out house. I use a page prior to departing. As far as Muslims are concerned, I wish I could give every one of them their ticket to hell, and eliminate all of them from the planet.

edbo
edbo
4 years ago

Don`t pollute your out-house with that crap keep it for regular crap.

tituspullo
tituspullo
4 years ago

really, how can any person with a brain be a muslim? their “book” is just a joke

Montana Man
Montana Man
4 years ago

It’s hard to believe that billions of people don’t realize how literally satanic and evil this heathen religion is This is despite the fact that it’s the only modern-day religion which openly endorses murder, torture, and other hateful behavior. To find something comparable you’d have to go all the way back to the Aztecs and Mayans– who would coldly rip out the beating hearts of their victims in order to placate their demon gods.

Raven Vaughan
Raven Vaughan
4 years ago
Reply to  Montana Man

Because SJW nutters have no functioning brain cells back and defend everything destructive to humanity

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Montana Man

Cortez had no problems finding allies among other Native American tribes willing to kill the Aztecs — because their men and women were among those tens of thousands of people sacrificed
annually to the Aztec death cult.

David Grisez
David Grisez
4 years ago

This Iranian Koran Scholar, as expected, found full justification in the Koran for the ruling religious authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran to brutally crush all rebellion against them. I suspect that the people of Iran will need the help of other nations to remove from power the mullahs and other religious authorities.

Rick Gouveia
Rick Gouveia
4 years ago

Austere Muslim scholar proclaims Allah’s will that all protesters be crucified. Funny how leftists in the West find nothing wrong with the teachings of Islam (aka Satan’s cult).

D A
D A
4 years ago
Reply to  Rick Gouveia

Have you seen video of the Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters ? They are one and the same with muslims.

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

RELIGION OF PEACE!

volksnut
volksnut
4 years ago
Reply to  Roma Mikhasev

‘ piece ‘ as in this body part – or that one –

Raven Vaughan
Raven Vaughan
4 years ago
Reply to  Roma Mikhasev

A piece here there and everywhere

john
john
4 years ago

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john
john
4 years ago

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Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
4 years ago
Reply to  john

Germ warfare is nothing new but soon to be seen again. It was used much in the Middle Ages when infected corpses were catapulted over castle walls when under siege. The modern equivalent would quite possibly be for some jihadis to organise a legal flight for a person infected with the very early stages of Ebola to land in some major American or western city. His papers would be in order and this time bomb on a mission would step right in.

ed
ed
4 years ago

I’m wondering how one can be a “prominent” or an “austere” mozzlem “scholar”, when all mozzlems are in-bred and mostly bordering completely idiotic and mentally re-tar-ded……..

Leander
Leander
4 years ago

According to Bukhari and the Quoran Muhammad was killed by Allah.

Who is interested on the backgroundstory of this – either Filmmaker or Publisher shall ask for my Address Pamela Geller.

Leander
Leander
4 years ago

Have you known that according to Bukhari and the Quoran Muhammad was killed by Allah ?

Who wants to know the backgroundstory may contact Pam.

Leander
Leander
4 years ago

Test

jerrys
jerrys
4 years ago

A vote for a democrat is a vote to bring America under islamic sharia!
Proscribe islam or your children will be slaves or worse under sharia.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago

I don’t know what to say.

Why would we be upset by this?

They are Muslims killing Muslims. Isn’t that what everybody wants?

Infidel
Infidel
4 years ago

Well, jus’ call me “Moharabah”. I’ll wear that, as a badge of honor!

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