If a person commits an act of disbelief, is it obligatory for us to ask him whether he was coerced into it or not before ruling on him?
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Question:
He asks: If a person commits an act of disbelief, is it obligatory for us to ask him whether he was coerced into it or not before we rule on him?
Answer:
We rule on him unless he proves that he was coerced. If he proves that he was coerced, that is one thing. But to say, "Wait, wait, let him associate partners with Allah, let him commit disbelief, we do not know about him, let him be until we slaughter him"—this is a false statement. This is a discouragement from establishing the proof and from calling to Allah. Yes, and this is what the scholars said. This only happened recently among the pretenders to knowledge. Yes.
He asks: If a person commits an act of disbelief, is it obligatory for us to ask him whether he was coerced into it or not before we rule on him?
Answer:
We rule on him unless he proves that he was coerced. If he proves that he was coerced, that is one thing. But to say, "Wait, wait, let him associate partners with Allah, let him commit disbelief, we do not know about him, let him be until we slaughter him"—this is a false statement. This is a discouragement from establishing the proof and from calling to Allah. Yes, and this is what the scholars said. This only happened recently among the pretenders to knowledge. Yes.
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قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل إذا فعل شخص فعلًا كفريًّا يجب أن نسأله هل هو مكره على هذا أم لا قبل الحكُم عليه؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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