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Good morning. I am an Indonesian muslim. At first, I want to do research about homicide rate in Nigeria. World bank data for homicide is definitely most accurate data for homicide rate. You can see link below.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?locations=KP&most_recent_value_desc=false

And then I actually saw nigeria in top 20 (place 17), with homicide rate 22. I do research again what cause this high number and then I found terrorism (like Boko haram) in Nigeria is one of cause high homicide in northern nigeria. Bandits like fulani bandits probably also who cause these high numbers. Then I wonder is there something wrong with the way understanding of Islam in northern Nigeria. Because if you look the data in WHO, the next highest homicide rate is Iraq. The homicide of iraq is actually much higher when I searched homicide rate from their official data (13.2). But at least I can understand with Iraq, because Iraq is destabilized by the west, but what happen in northern nigeria? Why fulani killing men easily like there's no fear of Allah? Who support Boko haram? Is it the west, russia, UAE, or local government who support Boko haram?
Then, I did research again, I saw twitter that a muslim woman from nigeria responded about some murder case something like this:
"It is unfortunate that they will be surely forgiven by Allah because they have ask forgiveness for murdering someone"

When I saw tweet like this, I am kinda disturbed by the fact that how she is sure Allah will forgive sins of murderer? Because in Qur'an you can clearly see that it's up to Allah who can forgive or not the sins of human. It's not human who can give verdict that humans are forgiven or not. It's up to Allah. There are clearly three verses of Qur'an who say like this:
1. Surah Ali Imran verse 129
2. Surah Al Baqarah verse 284
3. Surah Al-Hadid verse 21
Basically, from these three verses, you can clearly see that
"Allah forgives whoever He wills and punish whoever He wills"

In case of murdering someone, you can clearly see from Qur'an Surah Al-Maidah verse 32 that whoever takes a life unless as a punishment for murder or mischief in the land it will be as if they killed all humanity. If we combine with Surah Al-Baqarah verse 190, you can't kill other than punishment of murder and mischief in the land and you can't kill except someone who fight you. So it's crazy that I saw Boko Haram who kill citizen who has nothing to do with them. They kill civilian especially the one who pray in mosque who don't even try to kill them. It's really crazy to me. If you see law of war in Islam you can't kill civilian no matter what. It's haram. Also if we combine with surah An Nisa verse 93, basically Qur'an said that whoever kill someone intentionally (muslim or non-muslim) their reward will be hell forever where they will stay indefinitely. So if you kill someone (including yourself aka suicide) intentionally whatever their belief is you will stay in hell forever.

So from my understanding, northern nigerian muslim put their hadith or scholar opinion over Qur'an which is haram. Allah only revealed Qur'an to prophet Muhammad. Allah didn't reveal hadith or scholarly opinion to prophet Muhammad. Nigerian muslim especially northern nigerian should put Qur'an over other books because Qur'an is the only God's words. I am not saying that all hadiths are wrong but some hadiths are works of satan to misguide muslims. I still acknowledge that many hadiths who are accordance with Qur'an but many hadiths are also against Qur'an
So this is why I am sad for my nigerian muslim brothers and sisters whenever I saw terrorism and bandits who kill people like there's no fear of Allah at all. I don't want to brag at all but my country's homicide rate is very low (about 0.6 in 2004, world bank data), but the last I time I saw our government data, it's even decreasing to 0.4 (2023). I think it has something to do our Islamic organization works very hard to filter bad hadith or bad scholar opinion. They will let outside source of Qur'an change the God's words.

And I don't want to scare you all, if you read Qur'an alone, Qur'an never said explicitly forgiveness accepted does mean you will don't have punishment. Allah never said if your forgiveness accepted Allah will not punish you. So there's still possibility Allah still punish you even your forgiveness accepted. Allah also never said if your forgiveness accepted does mean that your sins deleted right away from scales of deed in judgment day. So there's still possibility that your sins are not deleted from scales of deed in judgement even if your forgiveness accepted by Allah.
I will put analogy for example that student going late to school and the student feel sorry to teacher. The teacher say:
I forgive you but according to school rule you still have to do punishment for going late and your name will be marked for this semester because you are going too late.

Good morning. I am an Indonesian muslim. At first, I want to research about homicide rate in Nigeria. World bank data for homicide is definitely most accurate data for homicide rate. You can see link below.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?locations=KP&most_recent_value_desc=false

And then I actually saw nigeria in top 20 (place 17), with homicide rate 22. I do research again what cause this high number and then I found terrorism (like Boko haram) in Nigeria is one of cause high crime in Northern homicide rate. Bandits like fulani probably also who cause these high numbers. Then I wonder is there something wrong with the way understanding of Islam in northern Nigeria. Because if you look the data in WHO, the next highest homicide rate is Iraq. The homicide of iraq is actually much higher when I searched homicide rate from their official data (13.2). But at least I can understand with Iraq, because Iraq is destabilized by the west, but what happen in northern nigeria? Why fulani killing men easily like there's no fear of Allah? Who support Boko haram? Is it the west, russia, UAE?