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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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I ask your honor to give advice to one who hastens to declare others disbelievers for the slightest reason?

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, I ask your honor to give advice to one who hastens to declare others disbelievers for the slightest reason.

Answer:
The advice is to fear Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and to remember the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) that if a servant says to his brother
O disbeliever, O open sinner, Oيا كافر يا فاسق يا
Sunan al-Bayhaqi 15:1347
enemy of Allah, you wretched one, and he is not such, his words return upon him; he disbelieves himself and commits open sinfulness himself. So his words return upon him; it is not a word that goes away, but rather, if what was said about the person is true, it goes to the one it was said about; if it is not true, it returns to the one who said it.
So he rules against himself, may Allah protect us from that. It is obligatory for the Muslim to fear Allah and restrain his tongue from these expressions. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [84 -1024] أرجو من فضيلتكم توجيه نصيحة لمن يسارع بالتكفير لأدنى سبب؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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