The Ruling on Opening Dialogue with Other Religions
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Question:
The questioner says: We have heard in these days a campaign to open dialogue with other religions, and efforts to spread it through meetings in newspapers and some websites on the internet. The question is: What is the ruling on carrying out this call and encouraging it?
Answer:
This is not permissible. This is equating the false religion with the true religion. Their aim is that they equate the religion of Islam with the religion of the Christians and the religion of the Jews, and they make them all correct, all religions, and the person is free to choose whether he wants to become a Jew, a Christian, or a Muslim. They consider them all equal religions. This is what they want.
Otherwise, the religion of Islam is the true religion now, and it abrogates what came before it. There is no religion except the religion of Islam, there is no religion except the religion of Islam,[Ali 'Imran 3:85]. And Islam after the sending of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is what the Messenger brought. As for before Muhammad, Islam is whatever the messengers (peace be upon them) brought, and that is Islam. But after the sending of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), Islam became specifically what the Messenger brought.
The questioner says: We have heard in these days a campaign to open dialogue with other religions, and efforts to spread it through meetings in newspapers and some websites on the internet. The question is: What is the ruling on carrying out this call and encouraging it?
Answer:
This is not permissible. This is equating the false religion with the true religion. Their aim is that they equate the religion of Islam with the religion of the Christians and the religion of the Jews, and they make them all correct, all religions, and the person is free to choose whether he wants to become a Jew, a Christian, or a Muslim. They consider them all equal religions. This is what they want.
Otherwise, the religion of Islam is the true religion now, and it abrogates what came before it. There is no religion except the religion of Islam, there is no religion except the religion of Islam,
And whoever desires other than Islam as religion - never will it be accepted from him, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers.
وَمَن يَبْتَغِ غَيْرَ الْإِسْلَامِ دِينًا فَلَن يُقْبَلَ مِنْهُ وَهُوَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ مِنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ
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