Combining the Hadiths Regarding Dealing with the Jews

Question:
This questioner says: Your Excellency the Shaykh, there are hadiths that show the good treatment of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) toward the Jews, such as eating at their homes, and there are other hadiths that urge us not to initiate greetings or the salam to them. How do we combine these hadiths?

Answer:
There is no contradiction between them that requires us to combine them, and praise be to Allah. The issue is that we hate them. We hate them, and we do not show them loyalty; this is obligatory. But the issue of worldly dealings, such as buying and selling, and inviting them to Allah the Exalted and Mighty with wisdom and good exhortation, is a different matter. So we combine both: we do not love them, but our hatred of them does not lead us to wrong them or transgress against them. Likewise, our hatred of them does not lead us to not invite them to Allah the Exalted and Mighty, or to not eat from their food, or to not accept their invitations. This is a means of encouraging them to enter Islam, so it is one of the means of calling to Allah the Exalted and Mighty. He said: So our hatred of them for the sake of their religion—what we hate is not for the sake of their persons, but for the sake of their false religion—does not mean that we do not deal with them in what is permissible, or that we do not invite them to Allah the Exalted and Mighty, or that we wrong them. All of this is not permissible. Yes.