The ruling on visiting one who has apostatized from Islam

Question:
And the Shaykh said, may Allah protect you. Your statement regarding bringing the people of the land closer and seeking the people of Paradise and the numbering. Is the month good? Is it permissible for me to go to him and greet him because he has come down from the palace? And do I eat with him or maintain ties? I say that he is among the others.

Answer:
If your going to him is merely to greet him, sit with him, and look at his face, this is permissible, and he is in this state. But if your going to him is to call him to Allah, command him to repent, and feel remorse for what happened from him, then that is good: that you visit him, greet him, call him to Allah, and advise him. If he accepts from you, and if he does not accept, then you have fulfilled the obligatory duty, and the proof has been established against him. Do not visit him after that as long as he remains upon this invalid methodology.