The Difference Between Loyalty to Disbelievers and Dealing with Them

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. You mentioned at the beginning of the lecture that the meaning of the phrase "La ilaha illa Allah" is loyalty to Allah and rejecting everything other than Him, and from this comes disavowal of disbelievers and polytheists. So how do Muslims deal with disbelievers and polytheists, and show them loyalty, in this time when it is rare for a single Muslim to be safe from it?

Answer:
Dealing with disbelievers: the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) used to deal with disbelievers, meaning he would buy and sell in worldly matters, and that is not loyalty to them. Dealing with them is not loyalty to them. Loyalty is love in the heart and honor in appearance.
As for dealing, there is no love or honor in it. It is take and give. Take and give. Buy and sell. Sell and buy. And one does not refrain from it either. That is, as is not hidden, the disbeliever from whom one does not refrain from accepting his gift. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) accepted gifts from disbelievers. And the Shaykh accepted the Egyptian [gift] from the Jewish woman who poisoned him. She poisoned him and put poison in it. And he accepted the gift of al-Muqawqis, who gifted him a mule, and gifted him things, and gifted him his slave girl Maryam. So dealing is not loyalty.
What is required when you deal with a man by buying, selling, and leasing is not that you love him. So it is necessary to distinguish between loyalty and dealing, commercial and economic dealing, and the like. Yes.