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ما هي أسباب ومسوغات وشروط تطبيق حد الإعدام (القتل) في الإسلام؟

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The death penalty (execution) is established for an individual in the following cases: the apostate, the married fornicator (adulterer), the intentional killer (as retaliation/qisas), the highway robber (muharib), and the spy. In addition to these, there are the one who abandons prayer, the sorcerer, and the zindiq (heretic/crypto-disbeliever). The detailed conditions for executing these punishments are found in books of Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence).

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