Denial of religion's necessities and its relationship with apostasy

In this paper, two fixedIslamic jurisprudential theories are investigated viz.,"denying necessities of religion causes apostasy" and "denial of religion's necessities mustcause apostasy if it leads to the rejection of the Islamic Prophet". By scrutinizing variouscontradictory narratives including hadiths, with or without consensus,this paper concludes that denying necessities of religion does not lead to apostasy in itself and is the circumstantial evidence of apostasy and atheism. As a result, if there is certain belief about a person who denies the necessities of religion and have faith to the monotheism and prophecy and acknowledges the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, but is doubted in particulars and thus denies the necessities of religion, he/she should not be sentenced to apostasy.