Is it permissible to accept aid and work with Christian missionary organizations that seek to convert people to Christianity?
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The questioner : A questioner says: There is an important issue that the Muslim world is suffering from in the present age. First, the spread of Christian organizations, which are called missionary organizations. They have spread throughout the Muslim world and help Muslims by establishing schools, building hospitals, and mosques. They want to convert the world to Christianity behind this. Is it permissible to accept aid from them? And is this a form of their loyalty?
The Shaykh : Taking aid from them in order to strengthen oneself to refute them is good. However, taking aid from them that necessitates loving them, inclining toward them, and defending their methodology is forbidden and not permissible. If a person knows from himself that if he takes even one qirsh, it will cause him to incline toward them, love them, and overlook their faults, then it is not permissible for him to take anything, because this is at the expense of the religion. But if he takes something from their wealth to help him in worshipping Allah and to help him in clarifying the invalidity of what they are upon, then that is good and there is no harm in it, especially with need. Otherwise, it is better to be independent of them and leave them, or not, and that is better.
The questioner : The attached question asks: Is it permissible to take jobs from them, such as working with them?
The Shaykh : I do not see that it is permissible as long as he knows that they want thereby to bring people into Christianity, because this is assisting in falsehood. And Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Ma'idah 5:2]
The Shaykh : Taking aid from them in order to strengthen oneself to refute them is good. However, taking aid from them that necessitates loving them, inclining toward them, and defending their methodology is forbidden and not permissible. If a person knows from himself that if he takes even one qirsh, it will cause him to incline toward them, love them, and overlook their faults, then it is not permissible for him to take anything, because this is at the expense of the religion. But if he takes something from their wealth to help him in worshipping Allah and to help him in clarifying the invalidity of what they are upon, then that is good and there is no harm in it, especially with need. Otherwise, it is better to be independent of them and leave them, or not, and that is better.
The questioner : The attached question asks: Is it permissible to take jobs from them, such as working with them?
The Shaykh : I do not see that it is permissible as long as he knows that they want thereby to bring people into Christianity, because this is assisting in falsehood. And Allah the Exalted said:
but do not cooperate in sin and aggression
وَلَا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 43 - 48 هل يجوز أخذ المساعدات والعمل مع المؤسسات التبشيرية النصيرية التي تطلب تنصير الناس؟ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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