Dealing with disbelievers with kindness and a pleasant face, and its relationship to disavowal
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: When we deal with disbelievers in school and elsewhere, we find them smiling at us. Does dealing with them with kindness and a pleasant face contradict our disavowal of them and their religion?
Answer:
No, smiling at them and laughing with them is not permissible. But if they greet you with the salam, return it to them. Do not transgress against them or be rude to them; transgressing against them and being rude to them is not permissible. Yes. As for compromising with them or yielding on matters of your religion for their sake, that is not permissible. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: When we deal with disbelievers in school and elsewhere, we find them smiling at us. Does dealing with them with kindness and a pleasant face contradict our disavowal of them and their religion?
Answer:
No, smiling at them and laughing with them is not permissible. But if they greet you with the salam, return it to them. Do not transgress against them or be rude to them; transgressing against them and being rude to them is not permissible. Yes. As for compromising with them or yielding on matters of your religion for their sake, that is not permissible. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 25 من 76/شرح فتح المجيد لشرح كتاب التوحيد/التنبيه على الإخلاص/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:10:03)
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