Leaving off the prohibition of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and the limit of coercion
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The questioner:
What is the limit of coercion that allows, or makes permissible, leaving off enjoining good and forbidding evil in matters of shirk (associating partners with Allah)? What is the limit of coercion that allows a scholar to leave off enjoining good and forbidding evil in matters of shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to leave off the command; rather, he must enjoin good with them or among them.
The questioner:
As for the scholars in the Islamic lands, these are things that are judged by analogy to those who left off the prohibition of shirk (associating partners with Allah) in Makkah?
The Shaykh:
In any case, it is obligatory for them to call people to the truth, remind them, and make the truth clear to them, and not to participate with them in disbelief in Allah, nor in the acts of disbelief, neither with the heart, nor with the deed, nor with the word. As for if he falls short in forbidding evil, this is a sin; it is obligatory to forbid evil. But if he falls short, yet it is not considered such, and he does not do it with them, and does not flatter them, and does not approve of it, that is one thing. But if he flatters them and does it with them, forbids with them the graves, listens to their religions, prostrates to the graves, and does so for the sake of flattery, then this is shirk (associating partners with Allah). As for a person who does not flatter them and does not participate in their falsehood, but is weak, does not confront them with prohibition, or fears harm from them, or hopes for their wealth, or something like that, this is the place of the Fire.
What is the limit of coercion that allows, or makes permissible, leaving off enjoining good and forbidding evil in matters of shirk (associating partners with Allah)? What is the limit of coercion that allows a scholar to leave off enjoining good and forbidding evil in matters of shirk (associating partners with Allah)?
The Shaykh:
It is not permissible to leave off the command; rather, he must enjoin good with them or among them.
The questioner:
As for the scholars in the Islamic lands, these are things that are judged by analogy to those who left off the prohibition of shirk (associating partners with Allah) in Makkah?
The Shaykh:
In any case, it is obligatory for them to call people to the truth, remind them, and make the truth clear to them, and not to participate with them in disbelief in Allah, nor in the acts of disbelief, neither with the heart, nor with the deed, nor with the word. As for if he falls short in forbidding evil, this is a sin; it is obligatory to forbid evil. But if he falls short, yet it is not considered such, and he does not do it with them, and does not flatter them, and does not approve of it, that is one thing. But if he flatters them and does it with them, forbids with them the graves, listens to their religions, prostrates to the graves, and does so for the sake of flattery, then this is shirk (associating partners with Allah). As for a person who does not flatter them and does not participate in their falsehood, but is weak, does not confront them with prohibition, or fears harm from them, or hopes for their wealth, or something like that, this is the place of the Fire.
Source
شرح كشف الشبهات [ ابن باز ]، بداية من الفصل الثاني عشر : كشف شبهة من زعم أن من أدى بعض واجبات الدين لا يكون كافرًا ولو أتى بما ينافي التوحيد — islamhouse.com (1:18:29)
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