What is the ruling on showing loyalty to disbelievers?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says that due to the events that have occurred, some Muslims have come to show loyalty to disbelievers, and this is because of a ruling he heard from one of the students of knowledge. What is the ruling on that?

Answer:
I do not think there is a Muslim here who shows loyalty to disbelievers, but you are interpreting loyalty in a way other than its meaning. You are interpreting loyalty in a way other than its meaning. And I do not think there is a Muslim here who shows loyalty to disbelievers at all, if Allah wills. If he shows loyalty to them, he is ignorant, and he is not a Muslim. Either he is ignorant, or he is not a Muslim, being one of the hypocrites.
As for the Muslim, he does not show loyalty to disbelievers. But there are actions that you consider to be loyalty, which are not loyalty, such as buying and selling with disbelievers, such as giving gifts to disbelievers. This is permissible and is not of loyalty. This is from worldly transactions, the exchange of benefits. Such as hiring a disbeliever to do work. This is not of loyalty. This is from the exchange of benefits. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) hired Abdullah ibn Uraytah al-Laythi to show him the way of the migration, and he was a disbeliever, in order to benefit from his knowledge of the way. It is not permissible to hire [him for other things], and it is permissible for a Muslim to hire himself out to a disbeliever if he needs to, because this is from the exchange of benefits, not from the exchange of love and affection. Even the disbelieving father: it is obligatory for his son to be dutiful to him, and this is not from the exchange of love. No, , but he is kind to him and dutiful to him, because this is from worldly kindness and from recompense, recompense to the father, and from worldly kindness. There are things in dealings with disbelievers, and also that truce, covenant, and safe conduct with disbelievers. This is carried out and is not of loyalty. There are things that some ignorant people think are loyalty, but they are not loyalty. There, there is the act of placating. If there is danger upon the Muslims and they placate the disbelievers to avert the danger, this is not of loyalty, and it is not of deception. This is placating, and there is a difference between placating and deception. Deception is not permissible, but placating, if there is danger upon the Muslims or upon a Muslim, and he averts it and placates the disbelievers to avoid this danger, then this is not of deception and not of loyalty.
Matters require fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), they require knowledge. As for interpreting everything with disbelievers as loyalty, this is from ignorance and from error, or from misleading people. So the result is that only jurists and people of knowledge enter into these matters. Students of knowledge and half-learned people do not enter into them, yet they delve into them, they permit and forbid, they accuse people, and they say this is loyalty, while they do not know and do not know the Shari'ah ruling. This is dangerous, dangerous for the one who says it, that he spoke about Allah without knowledge. Yes.