The ruling on one who performs a polytheistic prayer knowing the ruling
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: If a person does it in jest and performs a polytheistic prayer knowing the ruling, does his shirk (associating partners with Allah) become major shirk that takes him out of the religion?
Answer:
If he believes in this prayer and holds that it is valid and that it benefits, then he becomes a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah) of major shirk. He becomes like the sorcerer who performed it. But if he performed it merely to see it and did not believe in it, then this does not occur. However, he must affirm it and hasten to affirm it, and not return to going to this wicked one, this consultant. He should repent to Allah and not return to this thing.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: If a person does it in jest and performs a polytheistic prayer knowing the ruling, does his shirk (associating partners with Allah) become major shirk that takes him out of the religion?
Answer:
If he believes in this prayer and holds that it is valid and that it benefits, then he becomes a mushrik (one who associates partners with Allah) of major shirk. He becomes like the sorcerer who performed it. But if he performed it merely to see it and did not believe in it, then this does not occur. However, he must affirm it and hasten to affirm it, and not return to going to this wicked one, this consultant. He should repent to Allah and not return to this thing.
Source
من أتى ساحرا — alfawzan.live
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