Journal

Dated notes on doubt, leaving and the rulings on apostasy. The long guides stay under Guides; this is where the dated writing goes.

Who may call a Muslim kafir?

“You are a kafir now.” Doubters hear it from cousins and comment threads. The Prophet warned about that word, and the jurists fenced it in.

The Hudaybiyyah clause on leaving

In 628 the Prophet signed a treaty letting any Muslim who went over to Quraysh stay there. What the clause said, and what scholars made of it.

The hypocrites the Prophet spared

Madinah had men the Prophet knew to be hypocrites, one of them named to his face. He refused to kill them. What that shows, and what it leaves open.