Is loyalty to disbelievers major or minor open sinfulness?
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The questioner:
This questioner says: You mentioned (may Allah preserve you) that loyalty to disbelievers is open sinfulness. What is meant by open sinfulness here? Major open sinfulness?
The Shaykh:
Is it what?
The questioner:
He says: You mentioned (may Allah preserve you) that loyalty to disbelievers is open sinfulness. What is meant by open sinfulness here? Major open sinfulness or minor open sinfulness?
The Shaykh:
I mentioned this, and it is not I who said that their loyalty is open sinfulness. This is in the Qur'an:[Al-Ma'idah 5:81] Allah is the One who mentioned this, and we said that this is major open sinfulness that takes one out of the religion. And there is minor open sinfulness, which is the open sinfulness of the believers who commit major sins. Yes.
This questioner says: You mentioned (may Allah preserve you) that loyalty to disbelievers is open sinfulness. What is meant by open sinfulness here? Major open sinfulness?
The Shaykh:
Is it what?
The questioner:
He says: You mentioned (may Allah preserve you) that loyalty to disbelievers is open sinfulness. What is meant by open sinfulness here? Major open sinfulness or minor open sinfulness?
The Shaykh:
I mentioned this, and it is not I who said that their loyalty is open sinfulness. This is in the Qur'an:
but many of them are defiantly disobedient.
وَلَٰكِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِّنْهُمْ فَاسِقُونَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل موالاة الكفار فسق أكبر أو أصغر؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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