The Criterion for Declaring Those Who Ally Themselves with the Jews and Christians as Disbelievers
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Based on the saying of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He:[Al-Ma'idah 5:51] Is it taken that one who takes the Jews and the Christians as allies is a disbeliever in clear disbelief?
Answer:
This is the rule, but my brothers, applying rules requires thought and requires insight. If you know a rule from the rules, you do not apply it to all situations and rule by it, and you have no insight and no knowledge. Now, there are people who are stumbling in these matters, declaring people disbelievers, ruling them as disbelievers, and saying, "Because the rule is such and such, and because so-and-so said such and such." This is not permissible. This is for the scholars and the people of insight; they are the ones who apply the rules and they are the ones who issue the rulings. It is not the right of the common people, nor the right of the beginning students of knowledge, nor the right of the self-taught who have not taken knowledge from its rightful sources to issue rulings and declare people disbelievers. This is not permissible. The result is that this requires application by the scholars and the people of insight. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Based on the saying of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He:
And whoever is an ally to them among you - then indeed, he is [one] of them
وَمَن يَتَوَلَّهُم مِّنكُمْ فَإِنَّهُ مِنْهُمْAnswer:
This is the rule, but my brothers, applying rules requires thought and requires insight. If you know a rule from the rules, you do not apply it to all situations and rule by it, and you have no insight and no knowledge. Now, there are people who are stumbling in these matters, declaring people disbelievers, ruling them as disbelievers, and saying, "Because the rule is such and such, and because so-and-so said such and such." This is not permissible. This is for the scholars and the people of insight; they are the ones who apply the rules and they are the ones who issue the rulings. It is not the right of the common people, nor the right of the beginning students of knowledge, nor the right of the self-taught who have not taken knowledge from its rightful sources to issue rulings and declare people disbelievers. This is not permissible. The result is that this requires application by the scholars and the people of insight. Yes.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين [42] — alfawzan.live (1:16:54)
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