IBN TAYMIYYA
- teachings on
	
	- apostasy,
	his famous scholar, who is called Sheikh al-Islam, says under the
	title of the
	law pertaining to the apostate,
		
		"The Muslim who does not pray must be ordered to pray; if he
		refuses to pray, he must be put to death, because he would be 
		an infidel and apostate, according to the scholars and Imams, 
		even if he said that Muhammad is the apostle of God, and even 
		if he was convinced of the purposes of prayers" 
		(ibn Taymiyya, law pertaining to the apostate, vol. 35, 
		pp. 105-106).
		 
		"If a wife abstain from praying, she would be asked to repent. 
		The husband may scourge her to repent, otherwise she must be 
		killed."
			(ibn Taymiyya, vol. 32, pp. 276 and 279)
		 
 
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