Sitting with non-Muslim students in school and playing with them
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: I am studying in one of the international schools, and there are non-Muslim students studying with us. Will I be sinful if I sit with them and play with them?
Answer:
If sitting with them does not involve any evil, and they do not openly declare their disbelief, and you are only sitting with them by virtue of the study, meaning you are studying, then this is a lesser sin. Although sitting with disbelievers and keeping their company is not permissible, you say that you are in a land of disbelievers and you have no Muslim land except for these people, so you keep their company for the sake of study only. And beware of being influenced by them and their morals. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: I am studying in one of the international schools, and there are non-Muslim students studying with us. Will I be sinful if I sit with them and play with them?
Answer:
If sitting with them does not involve any evil, and they do not openly declare their disbelief, and you are only sitting with them by virtue of the study, meaning you are studying, then this is a lesser sin. Although sitting with disbelievers and keeping their company is not permissible, you say that you are in a land of disbelievers and you have no Muslim land except for these people, so you keep their company for the sake of study only. And beware of being influenced by them and their morals. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل وأما اللوامة فاختلف في اشتقاق هذه اللفظة — islamhouse.com (1:03:27)
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