Coming from a relatively small Scandinavian town to Istanbul can get a bit overstimulating. I’m looking for some smaller places just outside (or inside) Istanbul for where I can relax a day or two. Prefrebly I place I get go to by bus, rental car is also an option.
Nice if the place has some beaches or beautiful landscape I can enjoy. Like a chill laid-back vibe.
Thank you
So I’m going on a family-trip and ladies want to know if there are beaches for women only. I’ve heard that’s a thing in some parts of Turkey. I know there are some in the Alanya-area. But closer to Istanbul?
Anything they should know before going there?
I’ve been trying to understand the Islamic position on Quran and its actual relation with the science of hadith. I’m NOT a quranist and will never be. I absolutely understand that authentic hadiths have a value to them. However, in the hierarchy of Islamic literature, do they come below the Quran or are they equally important?
Example: A lot of Muslims say that the punishment for apostasy is death, but when I read the Quran, I don’t actually see a verse that explicitly says apostates should be executed.
Instead, the Quran seems to speak about apostasy mainly in terms of spiritual consequences and judgment in the Hereafter.
For example:
“And say: The truth is from your Lord. So whoever wills — let him believe; and whoever wills — let him disbelieve…” (18:29)
“…Whoever among you turns back from his religion and dies as a disbeliever — their deeds will become worthless in this world and the Hereafter…” (2:217)
“Indeed, those who believed, then disbelieved, then believed, then disbelieved, and then increased in disbelief — Allah will not forgive them…” (4:137)
“Whoever disbelieves in Allah after having believed — except one who is forced while his heart is secure in faith…” (16:106)
“O you who believe, whoever among you turns back from his religion — Allah will bring forth a people whom He loves and who love Him…” (5:54)
What really confuses me is that the Quran repeatedly mentions people leaving Islam, sometimes even multiple times, but I don’t see a worldly punishment prescribed in those verses.
Yet many scholars cite the hadith:
“Whoever changes his religion, kill him.”
So my question is:
How do scholars reconcile this with the Quran? And can a hadith effectively establish a ruling that does not appear in the Quran — or even seems to go against verses like “There is no compulsion in religion”?
More specifically: does any hadith have the authority to abrogate or override a Qur’anic principle?
I’m asking sincerely and trying to understand the theological and legalt reasoning from different perspectives.