The Guidelines of Loyalty and Disavowal
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Question:
The questioner says: There has been a lot of talk in this time about the issue of loyalty and disavowal, so we want you, O our Shaykh, to clarify for us the guidelines regarding the issue of taking sides and showing allegiance. May Allah grant you success and strengthen you.
Answer:
Al-wala' wa al-bara' (loyalty and disavowal): loyalty means that you support the people of faith, love them, stand by them, help them, and be with them. This is loyalty to the people of faith.[Al-Ma'idah 5:55] [Al-Ma'idah 5:56] As for disavowal, it is disavowing the people of shirk (associating partners with Allah), disavowing them, not loving them in your hearts, not supporting them, and making clear the invalidity of what they are upon. This is disavowing them. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
The questioner says: There has been a lot of talk in this time about the issue of loyalty and disavowal, so we want you, O our Shaykh, to clarify for us the guidelines regarding the issue of taking sides and showing allegiance. May Allah grant you success and strengthen you.
Answer:
Al-wala' wa al-bara' (loyalty and disavowal): loyalty means that you support the people of faith, love them, stand by them, help them, and be with them. This is loyalty to the people of faith.
Your ally is none but Allah and [therefore] His Messenger and those who have believed - those who establish prayer and give zakah, and they bow [in worship].
إِنَّمَا وَلِيُّكُمُ اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا الَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ الصَّلَاةَ وَيُؤْتُونَ الزَّكَاةَ وَهُمْ رَاكِعُونَAnd whoever is an ally of Allah and His Messenger and those who have believed - indeed, the party of Allah - they will be the predominant.
وَمَن يَتَوَلَّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا فَإِنَّ حِزْبَ اللَّهِ هُمُ الْغَالِبُونَThe presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-099-نواقض الإسلام|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:11:36)
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