Converting Churches into Mosques and the Remains of the Polytheists
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success! You mentioned, may Allah preserve you, in a previous lesson, in response to one of the questions, that it is permissible to convert churches into mosques. How do you reconcile this with the author’s statement regarding the prohibition of using the remains of the polytheists as a place of worship?
Answer:
Because the churches are better, as people used to pray in them for Allah, unlike the idols. These are shirk (associating partners with Allah), the shirk of idols. The churches are better, as people used to pray in them for Allah, because Christianity is a better religion, even though it was altered and subjected to tahrif (distortion of a text's meaning), change. No.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success! You mentioned, may Allah preserve you, in a previous lesson, in response to one of the questions, that it is permissible to convert churches into mosques. How do you reconcile this with the author’s statement regarding the prohibition of using the remains of the polytheists as a place of worship?
Answer:
Because the churches are better, as people used to pray in them for Allah, unlike the idols. These are shirk (associating partners with Allah), the shirk of idols. The churches are better, as people used to pray in them for Allah, because Christianity is a better religion, even though it was altered and subjected to tahrif (distortion of a text's meaning), change. No.
Source
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