ties of kinship. Allah, Exalted Glory, said: «The Prophet is more worthy of the believers than themselves, and his wives are their mothers. And those of [blood] relationship are more entitled [to inheritance] in the decree of Allah than the [other] believers and the Emigrants, except that you may do to your close associates a kindness. That has been in the Book inscribed.»1 So whoever does not give Zakat from his wealth, does not fast, does not perform Hajj, and does not perform Jihad with a just Imam has opposed Allah and His Messenger, and whoever opposes Allah and His Messenger is not rational.
The Messenger of Allah, Exalted Glory, forbade us from killing, yet the killer killed; and he informed us of what the killer is threatened with by the saying of the Exalted: «And whoever kills a believer intentionally—his recompense is Hell, wherein he will abide eternally, and Allah has become angry with him and has cursed him and has prepared for him a great punishment.»2 So whoever opposes Allah and His Messenger exposes himself to destruction. He forbade us from theft and cut the hand of the thief; Allah, Exalted Glory, said: «[As for] the thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent [punishment] from Allah. And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.»3
He forbade us from adultery and commanded us to scourge the adulterer; Allah, Exalted Glory, said: «The woman or man found guilty of sexual intercourse—lash each one of them with a hundred lashes, and do not be taken by pity for them in the religion of Allah, if you should believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a group of the believers witness their punishment. The adulterer does not marry except an adulteress or a polytheist, and none marries an adulteress except an adulterer or a polytheist, and that has been made unlawful to the believers.»4 And He, Exalted Glory, said: «And