What is the ruling on giving a book of the meanings of the Qur'an to a disbeliever in English?
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner asks: What is the ruling on giving a book of the meanings of the Qur'an to a disbeliever? What is the ruling on giving a book of the meanings of the Qur'an to a disbeliever in English, so that he may benefit, perhaps he will enter Islam?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with it. He cuts it out and translates it; if he reads the translation, there is nothing wrong with it, or the tafsir (exegesis), there is nothing wrong with it. Yes.
Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner asks: What is the ruling on giving a book of the meanings of the Qur'an to a disbeliever? What is the ruling on giving a book of the meanings of the Qur'an to a disbeliever in English, so that he may benefit, perhaps he will enter Islam?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with it. He cuts it out and translates it; if he reads the translation, there is nothing wrong with it, or the tafsir (exegesis), there is nothing wrong with it. Yes.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 25 ما حكم إعطاء كتاب معاني القرآن لشخص كافر باللغة الإنجليزية؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com
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