Refuting the Claim That Disbelievers Are Forced into Islam in the Verse of Fighting
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: How should one respond to the disbelievers who claim that you force disbelievers into Islam, and they take this from His saying, “And fight them until there is no fitnah (trial, discord or temptation)”?
Answer:
“Until there is no fitnah (trial, discord or temptation)”—they do not fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) people by preventing them from the path of Allah; rather, they prevent others from the path of Allah and fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) them regarding their religion. The disbelievers, since they did not fight [us] now, do you not see what they did to the Muslims? Do you not see what they did to the Muslims? So if the disbelievers are left alone, they will descend upon the Muslims. Therefore, it is necessary to fight them, provided one has the ability to do so, and that their fighting be jihad (struggle in the path of Allah) in the path of Allah with its conditions and regulations.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: How should one respond to the disbelievers who claim that you force disbelievers into Islam, and they take this from His saying, “And fight them until there is no fitnah (trial, discord or temptation)”?
Answer:
“Until there is no fitnah (trial, discord or temptation)”—they do not fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) people by preventing them from the path of Allah; rather, they prevent others from the path of Allah and fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) them regarding their religion. The disbelievers, since they did not fight [us] now, do you not see what they did to the Muslims? Do you not see what they did to the Muslims? So if the disbelievers are left alone, they will descend upon the Muslims. Therefore, it is necessary to fight them, provided one has the ability to do so, and that their fighting be jihad (struggle in the path of Allah) in the path of Allah with its conditions and regulations.
Source
شرح كتاب فتح المجيد في شرح كتاب التوحيد [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع باب : تفسير التوحيد وشهادة أن لا إله إلا الله - 1 — islamhouse.com (1:08:49)
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