Students from France ask whether it is permissible to vote in their country's elections for the man who is the least harmful to Muslims?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this is a group who say: We are students of yours from France, and we are French Muslims. As you know, Honorable Shaykh, the elections are upon us in our country. Is it permissible for us to vote for the person we see as the least harmful to Muslims?
Answer:
By Allah, I do not know. I do not have an answer to this. First, Muslims exist in the lands of the disbelievers and under the rule of the disbelievers. This is a problem. They abandon migration, and the rulings of the disbelievers are applied to them. This is difficult. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, this is a group who say: We are students of yours from France, and we are French Muslims. As you know, Honorable Shaykh, the elections are upon us in our country. Is it permissible for us to vote for the person we see as the least harmful to Muslims?
Answer:
By Allah, I do not know. I do not have an answer to this. First, Muslims exist in the lands of the disbelievers and under the rule of the disbelievers. This is a problem. They abandon migration, and the rulings of the disbelievers are applied to them. This is difficult. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [676 /1350] طلاب من فرنسا يسألون هل يجوز التصويت في انتخابات بلدهم على الرجل الأقل شرا على المسلمين؟ — youtube.com
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