Whosoever killed a person – unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land – it shall be as if he had killed all mankind; and whoso gave life to one, it shall be as if he had given life to all mankind.
Islam, The Holy Qur’an, 5:33
A faithful believer remains at liberty regarding his religion unless he kills somebody unlawfully.
Islam, Saying of The Holy Prophet (sa), Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith 6862.
People lie, they commit fornication, they have no hesitation in causing grief to others; for a measly twelve annas or one rupee worth of jewellery, people will murder innocent children. Such audacity, mischief and temerity is not possible if one possesses true knowledge and full certainty. Such actions demonstrate that people do not realise at all that this poison of sin is a far more lethal poison than arsenic and strychnine. If such people believed that God exists, and if they knew that sin incurs divine displeasure and severe punishment, they would show an aversion to sin and abandon evil.
Islam, Saying of The Promised Messiah (as), Malfuzat – Vol. III, P. 167.
Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed; for in his own image, God made humankind.
Judaism, The Torah, Genesis 9:6.
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the fornicators, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
Christianity, The Bible, Revelations 21:8.
He who takes his own or another’s life becomes an outcaste.
Hinduism, Apastamba Dharma Sutra 1.10.28.17
A monk who intentionally deprives a human being of his life, or provides the means for suicide, or praises death, or incites one to commit suicide…thus having his mind set on the other’s death and with the idea that he should die, praises death in various ways or incites him to commit suicide, commits an offense entailing loss of monkhood.
Buddhism, Vinaya Pitaka
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