The Criterion for the Prohibited Imitation of the Disbelievers
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What is prohibited in imitating the disbelievers? Is every form of imitation of them prohibited?
Answer:
What is specific to them. Imitating them in what is specific to them. As for things shared between us and them, there is no imitation in those. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What is prohibited in imitating the disbelievers? Is every form of imitation of them prohibited?
Answer:
What is specific to them. Imitating them in what is specific to them. As for things shared between us and them, there is no imitation in those. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل وإذا تدبرت الشريعة وجدتها قد أتت بسد الذرائع إلى المحرمات — islamhouse.com (59:32)
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