The Ruling on Imitating the Disbelievers in Shared Benefits
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The questioner:
He says: In his statement (peace and blessings be upon him), “Whoever imitates a people is one of them,” if we imitate the disbelievers in their good matters.
The Shaykh:
Good matters? What are the good matters? It is said: the permissible ones. If we imitate them in their permissible matters, this is not of the religion. There are shared benefits in these matters. As for matters of their religion that are not benefits, we do not imitate them in them; that is invalid.
The presenter:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Taking the benefits is not imitating them, my brother. The original source of the benefits is for the Muslims.[Al-A'raf 7:32] So the default is that they are for the believers, and the disbelievers share in them with them in this world. But in the Hereafter, they will be exclusively for the believers, and the disbelievers will not share in them with them. Yes.
He says: In his statement (peace and blessings be upon him), “Whoever imitates a people is one of them,” if we imitate the disbelievers in their good matters.
The Shaykh:
Good matters? What are the good matters? It is said: the permissible ones. If we imitate them in their permissible matters, this is not of the religion. There are shared benefits in these matters. As for matters of their religion that are not benefits, we do not imitate them in them; that is invalid.
The presenter:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Taking the benefits is not imitating them, my brother. The original source of the benefits is for the Muslims.
Say, "Who has forbidden the adornment of Allah which He has produced for His servants and the good [lawful] things of provision?" Say, "They are for those who believe during the worldly life [but] exclusively for them on the Day of Resurrection."
قُلْ مَنْ حَرَّمَ زِينَةَ اللَّهِ الَّتِي أَخْرَجَ لِعِبَادِهِ وَالطَّيِّبَاتِ مِنَ الرِّزْقِ قُلْ هِيَ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا خَالِصَةً يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ
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