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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Calling the Christians "Christians"

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this questioner says: Is it correct to call the Christians today "Christians"?

Answer:
No, this is not permissible. They are not Christians. They want to hide behind this name. They are not Christians; rather, the Christians are those who are truly upon the religion of Jesus.

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this questioner says:

Answer:
(peace be upon him) ended with the mission of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes.
Source إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان-22- 06-1441هـ — alfawzan.live (45:10)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

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