The Disbelief of the People of Lut and the People of Shu'ayb
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The questioner:
Some people say that the people of Lut were not disbelievers or those who associate partners with Allah, but rather that they had fallen into major sins and destructive acts. So I hope you, may Allah preserve you, will clarify for us whether this statement is correct or incorrect?
The Shaykh:
The apparent meaning of the narratives is that they were disbelievers and that they combined disbelief with the crime of sodomy. Similarly, the people of Shu'ayb combined shirk (associating partners with Allah) with the cheating in measures and scales.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is established.
The Shaykh:
Also, even if all they had was the crime of sodomy and they were originally believers, their permissibilization of sodomy is kufr (disbelief). Their permissibilization of sodomy is kufr because permissibilizing what is forbidden is kufr against Allah the Exalted. Yes.
Some people say that the people of Lut were not disbelievers or those who associate partners with Allah, but rather that they had fallen into major sins and destructive acts. So I hope you, may Allah preserve you, will clarify for us whether this statement is correct or incorrect?
The Shaykh:
The apparent meaning of the narratives is that they were disbelievers and that they combined disbelief with the crime of sodomy. Similarly, the people of Shu'ayb combined shirk (associating partners with Allah) with the cheating in measures and scales.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is established.
The Shaykh:
Also, even if all they had was the crime of sodomy and they were originally believers, their permissibilization of sodomy is kufr (disbelief). Their permissibilization of sodomy is kufr because permissibilizing what is forbidden is kufr against Allah the Exalted. Yes.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، باب قول الله - تعالى - : { أَفَأَمِنُوا مَكْرَ اللَّهِ فَلا يَأْمَنُ مَكْرَ اللَّهِ إِلا الْقَوْمُ الْخَاسِرُونَ } — islamhouse.com (59:32)
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