The Ruling on Studying in the Schools of Innovators and Eating Food at Their Celebrations

The questioner : A student says that he studies in a school, and one day the school held a campaign, so he ate with them. This is...

The Shaykh : They held a campaign. What does "campaign" mean? What?

The questioner : A party.

The Shaykh : May Allah help us. This is what they call a party in the primary school.

The questioner : They held it. Do you want to see it, or do we allow you once? Then it turned out to be for the occasion of the birth of al-Husayn. Then it was held again, and he did not eat with them, but the principal forced him, so he ate. Does he owe anything? Is that considered showing loyalty to them? Is it permissible for him to study in this school?

The Shaykh : Given that there are schools for the Sunnah. If there are schools for the Sunnah, he does not study in other schools. All schools of the innovators: if there are schools for the Sunnah in the town, it is not permissible for him to study in the schools of the innovators, because this is harm to him in his religion.

The presenter : Prepared by the Project of the Senior Scholars of Kuwait, may Allah honor it with tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and the Sunnah.