Dealing with Rafidah employees in the workplace
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Question:
We have employees from the Rafidah (the Twelver Shi'ah) in our workplace, so I ask you, Honorable Shaykh, to clarify how to deal with them, for example regarding greeting them and exchanging festival greetings. Should I greet and exchange festival greetings with the employees from the people of the Sunnah and the community, and leave these others alone? I know that I find it difficult to do that.
Answer:
First, it is obligatory that one strives to remove them from jobs where the people of the Sunnah and the community are harmed by them. One should strive to remove them and transfer them from these positions to other jobs where they do not harm the people of the Sunnah and the community or cause them distress. This matter must be looked into and studied, because this has become a great source of harm. As for the second matter, you do not initiate the salam with them, but if they greet you, you return the greeting. You do not initiate the salam with them, but if they greet you, you return the greeting, just as this is done with disbelievers, such as the Jews and others. Yes.
We have employees from the Rafidah (the Twelver Shi'ah) in our workplace, so I ask you, Honorable Shaykh, to clarify how to deal with them, for example regarding greeting them and exchanging festival greetings. Should I greet and exchange festival greetings with the employees from the people of the Sunnah and the community, and leave these others alone? I know that I find it difficult to do that.
Answer:
First, it is obligatory that one strives to remove them from jobs where the people of the Sunnah and the community are harmed by them. One should strive to remove them and transfer them from these positions to other jobs where they do not harm the people of the Sunnah and the community or cause them distress. This matter must be looked into and studied, because this has become a great source of harm. As for the second matter, you do not initiate the salam with them, but if they greet you, you return the greeting. You do not initiate the salam with them, but if they greet you, you return the greeting, just as this is done with disbelievers, such as the Jews and others. Yes.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع باب قضاء الحاجة - 1 — islamhouse.com (40:51)
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