Cults deny free-will. Part of the cult's development will be to punish those who leave denying to anyone the free-will right to choose another path in life. The Koran poses lurid tales of eternal damnation and terror for anyone who deigns to leave Mohammed's cult. In fact over 717 verses contain the word 'astray', a word used to describe those who have rejected Islam in totality or in partiality; or a word used to describe someone who was a Muslim but has left the cult, led astray by the Zalimun or 'unjust' and 'unclean' non-Muslim, namely the evil Jew or Christian:
5:77 Say (O Muhammad SAW): "O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Exceed not the limits in your religion (by believing in something) other than the truth, and do not follow the vain desires of people who went astray in times gone by, and who misled many, and strayed (themselves) from the Right Path."
The word 'astray' is thus an integral part of Koranic theology. Only the deluded, evil, hypocritical, or demonic do not belong to Islam and have chosen the wrong 'path'. The punishment for apostasy in Islam is of course death.
3:90-91 - Lo! Those who disbelieve after their (profession of) belief, and afterward grow violent in disbelief: their repentance will not be accepted.....Theirs will be a painful doom and they will have no helpers.
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7:179 - And surely, We have created many of the jinns and mankind for Hell. They have hearts wherewith they understand not, they have eyes wherewith they see not, and they have ears wherewith they hear not (the truth). They are like cattle, nay even more astray; those! They are the heedless ones.
Leave the cult and Hell is your future. 'Surely' the apostates are 'the jinns and mankind for Hell.' 'A painful doom' awaits any who decide that Mohammed's cult of Allah-adoration is not for them. Prostrating yourself to Mohammed manifested the guise of a moon deity is unlikely to appeal to everyone....
6:77 When he saw the moon rising up, he said: "This is my lord." But when it set, he said: "Unless my Lord guides me, I shall surely be among the erring people.
Al-Lah, or El-lah is of course an ancient moon idol. In the Koran the Allah-thing is Mohammed. The two are the same. Mohammed's invention was to take the male moon deity, and his family idol and turn it into the 'one' and 'only' fulcrum of cult belief and veneration.
Turning your back on Mohammed and his cult, as outlined in 717 verses in the Koran, is of course the surest path to damnation. Christians and Jews, those great competitors of the Moslem cult, are the earliest apostates. In Koranic theology all people are born Muslim. All monotheistic preachers were Moslem. The Jews and Christians were thus serviced by Islamic prophets such as Noah, Moses and Isa or Jesus. Yet the Christian and Jewish liturgy became bastardized and evil and divorced itself from the true word of the Allah-thing. Christians and Jews are ergo contemptible apostates who deserve death because they have corrupted the pure word of Mohammed's alter-ego:
1:7 The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger (such as the Jews), nor of those who went astray (such as the Christians).
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4:44 Have you not seen those who were given a portion of the book (the Jews), purchasing the wrong path, and wish that you should go astray from the Right Path.
Both the Jews and Christians rejected Mohammed of course, further confirming their ancient apostasy and their 'hypocrisy' or rejection of the thing Allah:
3:90 Verily, those who disbelieved after their Belief and then went on increasing in their disbelief (i.e. disbelief in the Qur'an and in Prophet Muhammad SAW) - never will their repentance be accepted [because they repent only by their tongues and not from their hearts]. And they are those who are astray.
4:88 Then what is the matter with you that you are divided into two parties about the hypocrites? Allah has cast them back (to disbelief) because of what they have earned. Do you want to guide him whom Allah has made to go astray? And he whom Allah has made to go astray, you will never find for him any way (of guidance).
Apostasy is also foreordained or predestined. Allah in his omniscience actually leads certain people 'astray' such as the Jews or Christians. He 'hardens their hearts' and makes them the intractable enemies of the Mohammedan cult. As such these hypocrites and unclean people can be fought, killed, humiliated, subjected or otherwise dominated by Moslems. Since the Koranic law of apostasy is clearly death with a grace period of 3 days given to anyone to reconsider their decision to leave the cult, it is obvious that the great apostates – the Jews and Christians – can and must be destroyed for rejecting Allah aka Mohammed. If not death in this life, at least post-life damnation is assured.