Dividing Takfir into General and Specific Types
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: There are those who divide takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever) into general takfir and specific takfir. Is this division correct?
Answer:
O brothers, leave takfir alone; do not engage in it. Do not get involved in declaring people disbelievers. Reduce it and stay away from it. People today are preoccupied with takfir, and the methodology of the Khawarij (an early sect that declared sinners disbelievers) has spread now through the hands of the Da'esh and others. Stay away from these matters. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: There are those who divide takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever) into general takfir and specific takfir. Is this division correct?
Answer:
O brothers, leave takfir alone; do not engage in it. Do not get involved in declaring people disbelievers. Reduce it and stay away from it. People today are preoccupied with takfir, and the methodology of the Khawarij (an early sect that declared sinners disbelievers) has spread now through the hands of the Da'esh and others. Stay away from these matters. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 14-03-1439هـ — af.org.sa (56:19)
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