Why did some classical scholars rule that apostates be executed?

the past in the past so great scholars today by the way people like cher Abdullah bin ve a great Maliki scholar one of the teachers of share Hamza Yusuf in his sonata for tower in his machine he'd in his other articles as well in in his conference there was a conference which is which is available online as well or the transcript to it he discussed in depth these kind of situations saying that look in the past yes it is true that certain many scholars did go with certain rulings but you've got to look in they day and age

what were they looking at there was two things to understand here certain scholars first of all they when they spoke about any kind of ruling and they were speaking of what would today we looked at as treason in the past because in the past the world was a different place so they said anybody who committed an act of betrayal to the community and and on her that he was under ahoo that he made it up he kind of made apparent what many of them be safe he raised his sword and rebelled

and created a rebellion and may have been part of state secrets or what would today be seen as espionage and treason that yes in the past they may have ruled they did rule many scholars that that could have had capital punishment any of these rulings today clearly do not apply many of these scholars have said today Sher Abdullah bin baya whether it's been chef shall tooth share from a bond or booty all these all Imam clearly of this day and age have highlighted that does not apply at all but many centuries ago yes many scholars may have looked at the world because the world was a very

different place in the medieval times so they may have ruled like that okay what they rule was may have but but the whole world was doing it then you've got to understand something why didn't much limbs object to this why didn't some Muslims gonna say wait wait a minute we want to object because I suppose maybe they didn't I know this is gonna sound weird but maybe they saw it as is this really a battle worth fighting because in the past the worlds were incredibly segregated right they were incredibly segregated there wasn't this kind of cosmopolitan worlds that we

see today this kind of migration didn't happen on this scale that we have today so people in the past you know mainly these were let's say Christian countries these were mainly old Muslim countries you may have had some tiny kind of migrants here and there but that's how the worlds were and nobody had a problem in oh this person is a traitor this person is this execute them the Christians have no problem doing it anybody you know in in all these dynasties of the past and Muslims who I suppose from that perspective were no different and the scholars didn't really see this as much of an issue does that

make it in that sense does that make it accurate no it doesn't okay so that's just to highlight okay another interesting thing now let's go to the Sun now okay the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam spent an entire lifetime okay the Prophet Muhammad SAW spent an entire lifetime doing Dawa preaching teaching the people when people argue that apostasy deserves to be killed the question here is why does it deserve to

be killed why sorry why does the person deserve to be killed why and they would say well because he's disbelieved and he said well that's interesting because that would mean them disbelief deserves to be killed that anybody that Co far deserved to be killed because they also disbelieve does it not does that logic not follow so by that logic you would argue that all Co far deserve to be killed because what is the reason that you say that the ill our we call a no solution