Question
Sahnun (Rahmatullah Alaihi), the Maliki Faqeeh, is reported to have said in Al Qawanin Al Fiqhiyyah that whoever is forced into kufr or drinking alcohol or eating pork or the like, is not to do it unless threatened with death in particular; but if he shows forbearance in the face of death then this is better. Is this commentary not an advocacy to suicide knowing the consequence of refusing to obey is certainly death?
Answer
Most certainly it is not an advocacy to commit suicide. Suicide is that a man takes his own life with his own hands. What Sahnun (Rahmatullah alayh) has averred is the unanimous ruling of all Math-habs.
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- themajlis.co.za
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- Al-Haq Bulletin No. 66
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- 12
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