A Response to Those Who Claim That Islam in Our Time Is Terrorism and Declaring People Disbelievers
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Question:
Peace be upon you. Your Eminence, father, the questioner says: One of the journalists in one of the newspapers said that Islam is the Islam of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, and it is the Islam of the time of Andalusia, but Islam in our time is terrorism. How do we respond to something like this?
Answer:
Islam is Islam until Allah inherits the earth and whoever is upon it, and it is preserved by the preservation of Allah.[Al-Hijr 15:9] But you know that there are those who declare people disbelievers who declare Muslims to be disbelievers with such statements. Some of them say that even if they call to prayer and build mosques and minarets, they are not Muslims. This is from the takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever) of those who declare Muslims to be disbelievers.
Islam exists, praise be to Allah, and its people exist. The fact that there are many people of deviation does not harm Islam, nor does it indicate that Islam is lost. Islam exists for whoever wants it and is preserved, praise be to Allah. Yes, it is finished. And Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad.
Peace be upon you. Your Eminence, father, the questioner says: One of the journalists in one of the newspapers said that Islam is the Islam of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, and it is the Islam of the time of Andalusia, but Islam in our time is terrorism. How do we respond to something like this?
Answer:
Islam is Islam until Allah inherits the earth and whoever is upon it, and it is preserved by the preservation of Allah.
Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur'an and indeed, We will be its guardian.
إِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا الذِّكْرَ وَإِنَّا لَهُ لَحَافِظُونَA group from my Ummah will remain manifestly upon the truth, and those who abandon them or oppose them will not harm them, until the command of Allah comes.
لا تزال طائفة من أمتي على الحق ظاهرين لا يضرهم من خذلهم ولا من خالفهم حتى يأتي أمر اللهIslam exists, praise be to Allah, and its people exist. The fact that there are many people of deviation does not harm Islam, nor does it indicate that Islam is lost. Islam exists for whoever wants it and is preserved, praise be to Allah. Yes, it is finished. And Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [420- 4717] الرد على من زعم أن الإسلام في زماننا إرهاب وتكفير - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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