Is affiliation with political parties apostasy?

Question:
The questioner says: You mentioned in the book *Tawhid* that affiliation with atheistic schools of thought and secularist parties is apostasy from Islam. When some people read this statement, and one of them was a party member, he abandoned his party affiliation and began warning people against party politics, telling them that party politics is not permissible and is apostasy from the religion of Islam. The question is: Is what this person understood from your eminence correct? And is affiliation with all parties apostasy?

Answer:
I did not say affiliation with all parties. I said secularism and atheistic, atheist parties that do not believe in the Lord of this universe; that is apostasy. As for parties that do not reach the level of apostasy but have some deviations or some religious innovations, this is not apostasy. This is considered an error, but it does not reach the level of apostasy.
So you read the book and see that it is qualified, not absolute. It is qualified by the disbelieving parties. The one who affiliates with disbelieving parties becomes like them, a disbeliever. But the one who affiliates with Muslims is a Muslim. However, for parties that have deviations, he should not affiliate with them. But if he does affiliate with them, he is not considered a disbeliever. You should understand the speech; do not take it in an absolute sense, and do not attribute to the writer or speaker what he did not say or what he did not write. Yes.