One day a group of Jewish elders came to Jesus with a woman who had just been caught in the act of adultery. We are left to speculate as to how they happened to catch her. Jesus did not see a sinner before Him but a broken soul. The woman had sinned. She knew it. The town now knew it. Of course Jesus knew it. But she was sorry, and ashamed. No need to try to express that to the Jewish leadership. The law was the law. She deserved to die. As we all do.

Jesus is not easy on sin. He and His Father are one in condemning sinful acts and commanding it to stop. They are also one in mercy and forgiveness. The price for sin would be paid soon enough. For now it was the time to forgive. And He did.

One day Muhammad's favorite wife, that he had married when she was but a child, was accused, in her teen years, of sexual sin. We have no way of knowing the truth of the matter, so we will not enter into that discussion. The fallout from the event was that tongues began to wag. Slander was everywhere. Immediately Muhammad's closest friends, those who knew Islam the best, suggested that the slanderers, not the wife, be killed. This was the fruit of the teachings of many years. Sin is to be dealt with violently and immediately.