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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Killing Protected Non-Muslims and Citing the Killing of Muslims as a Justification

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: Some of the zealots for killing protected non-Muslims argue that our Muslim brothers are being killed in various parts of the world, and they say that these people are combatants who have no covenant and no protection.

Answer:
And is this protected non-Muslim the one who killed our brothers? It is not permissible
bearer of burdens will bear the burden of anotherوَازِرَةٌ وِزْرَ أُخْرَىٰ
[An-Najm 53:38]
. If you seize the one who killed a Muslim, you may have some excuse, but to kill an innocent person, a person who did not
and no bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another. Thenوَلَا تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌ وِزْرَ أُخْرَىٰ ثُمَّ
[Az-Zumar 39:7]
, and also breaking the covenant is forbidden; breaking the covenant is forbidden.
Whoever killed a person having a treaty with the Muslims, shall not smell the smell of Paradiseمن قتل معاهدا لم يرح رائحة الجنة
Sahih al-Bukhari 3166
. This is a severe warning. It is not permissible to break the covenant; this is among the matters for which a severe warning has been given, because this harms Islam and harms the Muslims. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 30/20 شرح العقيدة السفارينية / صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (4:32)

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

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