Associating with a Christian neighbor and eating with him
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh. A questioner says: A Christian person lives with me, he says. He says: A Christian person lives with me, and he says to me, "My brother, we are brothers," and he eats and drinks with us. Is this permissible, and what is my duty in responding?
Answer:
It is obligatory for you to keep your distance from him and not to mix with him. Because he is an enemy of Allah and His Messenger, and an enemy to you. Reciprocating with him, associating with him, and befriending him are incompatible with loyalty and disavowal. So you must keep your distance from him. And if he says to you, "You are my mind," you say, "I am not the mind of Satan; I am the mind of Satan as well."
Honorable Shaykh. A questioner says: A Christian person lives with me, he says. He says: A Christian person lives with me, and he says to me, "My brother, we are brothers," and he eats and drinks with us. Is this permissible, and what is my duty in responding?
Answer:
It is obligatory for you to keep your distance from him and not to mix with him. Because he is an enemy of Allah and His Messenger, and an enemy to you. Reciprocating with him, associating with him, and befriending him are incompatible with loyalty and disavowal. So you must keep your distance from him. And if he says to you, "You are my mind," you say, "I am not the mind of Satan; I am the mind of Satan as well."
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، اللقاء الأسبوعي-22 من 32-لفضيلة الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان -حفظه الله- مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com (31:59)
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