Is supporting disbelievers for the sake of benefit, without loving them, considered disbelief?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: Supporting disbelievers against Muslims, without loving them, such as supporting them for a certain benefit, is this disbelief? Or is another condition required?

Answer:
Who says that he supports them while he does not love them? This is all hypothetical. No one supports them except because he loves them. It is a necessary consequence of supporting them that he loves them. If he hated them and disliked them, he would not support them. So, the statement of some that one may support them while not loving them is not correct. Yes, if they forced him or compelled him, it might be the case, but if he supports them by his own choice and says he does not love them, that is not correct. Yes.