The Ruling of the Judge Who Rules by Other Than What Allah Has Revealed
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, he says: When is the one who rules by other than what Allah has revealed a disbeliever with major disbelief, and when is he a disbeliever with minor disbelief?
Answer:
Does the questioner want to judge so that he asks? They bring us these issues; these issues are settled. The scholars of knowledge and research have written about them in books of creed and books of exegesis. And this is also among what I told you: they bark about issues they display to people with this dissection. They are idle people with no work, and it seems they occupy people with these matters and mislead them from their creed and from…
Allah the Exalted and Majestic says:[Al-Ma'idah 5:44] [An-Nisa 4:65], and He the Exalted says: [An-Nur 24:47-50].
And He the Exalted says:[An-Nisa 4:60-61] [An-Nisa 4:61].
It is sufficient for us to read these verses and recite them; this is sufficient for us, and we do not go searching for what is beyond that, asking: Is he a lover from his heart, or is there a love in his heart, or…? He says what Allah the Exalted and Majestic said.
That[Al-Ma'idah 5:44] and those are the wrongdoers, and those are the open sinners. We bring the verses and we conceal them, and we do not search for anything beyond this, and we do not display these issues to the general people and to the students of knowledge who are innovators, and we occupy them with them. This is from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) and from deception. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, he says: When is the one who rules by other than what Allah has revealed a disbeliever with major disbelief, and when is he a disbeliever with minor disbelief?
Answer:
Does the questioner want to judge so that he asks? They bring us these issues; these issues are settled. The scholars of knowledge and research have written about them in books of creed and books of exegesis. And this is also among what I told you: they bark about issues they display to people with this dissection. They are idle people with no work, and it seems they occupy people with these matters and mislead them from their creed and from…
Allah the Exalted and Majestic says:
And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the disbelievers.
وَمَن لَّمْ يَحْكُم بِمَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْكَافِرُونَBut no, by your Lord, they will not [truly] believe until they make you, [O Muhammad], judge concerning that over which they dispute among themselves and then find within themselves no discomfort from what you have judged and submit in [full, willing] submission.
فَلَا وَرَبِّكَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ حَتَّىٰ يُحَكِّمُوكَ فِيمَا شَجَرَ بَيْنَهُمْ ثُمَّ لَا يَجِدُوا فِي أَنفُسِهِمْ حَرَجًا مِّمَّا قَضَيْتَ وَيُسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا(47) But the hypocrites say, "We have believed in Allah and in the Messenger, and we obey"; then a party of them turns away after that. And those are not believers. (48) And when they are called to [the words of] Allah and His Messenger to judge between them, at once a party of them turns aside [in refusal]. (49) But if the right is theirs, they come to him in prompt obedience. (50) Is there disease in their hearts? Or have they doubted? Or do they fear that Allah will be unjust to them, or His Messenger? Rather, it is they who are the wrongdoers.
وَيَقُولُونَ آمَنَّا بِاللَّهِ وَبِالرَّسُولِ وَأَطَعْنَا ثُمَّ يَتَوَلَّىٰ فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُم مِّن بَعْدِ ذَٰلِكَ وَمَا أُولَٰئِكَ بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَإِذَا دُعُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ لِيَحْكُمَ بَيْنَهُمْ إِذَا فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُم مُّعْرِضُونَ وَإِن يَكُن لَّهُمُ الْحَقُّ يَأْتُوا إِلَيْهِ مُذْعِنِينَ أَفِي قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ أَمِ ارْتَابُوا أَمْ يَخَافُونَ أَن يَحِيفَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ وَرَسُولُهُ بَلْ أُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الظَّالِمُونَAnd He the Exalted says:
(60) Have you not seen those who claim to have believed in what was revealed to you, [O Muhammad], and what was revealed before you? They wish to refer legislation to Taghut, while they were commanded to reject it; and Satan wishes to lead them far astray. (61) And when it is said to them, "Come to what Allah has revealed and to the Messenger," you see the hypocrites turning away from you in aversion.
أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّهُمْ آمَنُوا بِمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ وَمَا أُنزِلَ مِن قَبْلِكَ يُرِيدُونَ أَن يَتَحَاكَمُوا إِلَى الطَّاغُوتِ وَقَدْ أُمِرُوا أَن يَكْفُرُوا بِهِ وَيُرِيدُ الشَّيْطَانُ أَن يُضِلَّهُمْ ضَلَالًا بَعِيدًا وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ تَعَالَوْا إِلَىٰ مَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ وَإِلَى الرَّسُولِAnd when it is said to them, "Come to what Allah has revealed and to the Messenger," you see the hypocrites turning away from you in aversion.
وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمْ تَعَالَوْا إِلَىٰ مَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ وَإِلَى الرَّسُولِ رَأَيْتَ الْمُنَافِقِينَ يَصُدُّونَ عَنكَ صُدُودًاIt is sufficient for us to read these verses and recite them; this is sufficient for us, and we do not go searching for what is beyond that, asking: Is he a lover from his heart, or is there a love in his heart, or…? He says what Allah the Exalted and Majestic said.
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And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the disbelievers.
وَمَن لَّمْ يَحْكُم بِمَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْكَافِرُونَ
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