The question regarding the status of clerical employees and giving them gifts with the intention of da'wah
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you. Regarding the workers from among the People of the Book or others, is it permissible to ask about their condition or to give them gifts as a means of calling them to Islam?
The Shaykh:
We know them; we know the Jew from the Christian. But the Jew now is a hostile party; the Jew is a hostile party. There is no treaty between us and them, and they do not enter our lands, because they are hostile. As for the others, they are immigrants and treaty partners, so there is a difference between the Jew now and the other disbelievers.
The questioner:
Regarding the workers from among the People of the Book or others, is it permissible to ask about their condition or to give them gifts as a means of calling them to Islam, or?
The Shaykh:
Why should we ask them? They are disbelievers. So giving them worldly things is easy; they are given things and treated kindly. But giving them books of the Qur'an or the Sunnah, or this, is not permissible until they become Muslims. It is permissible to show them from the books of Islam until they become Muslims. But if their Islam is expected, we let them hear the Qur'an and let them hear the hadiths; we present them to them. But that we give them books from the books of Islam, the collections of the Sunnah, or the Qur'an, or books containing hadiths and verses from the books of jurisprudence, this is not what we give them until they become Muslims, because they will insult it.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you. Regarding the workers from among the People of the Book or others, is it permissible to ask about their condition or to give them gifts as a means of calling them to Islam?
The Shaykh:
We know them; we know the Jew from the Christian. But the Jew now is a hostile party; the Jew is a hostile party. There is no treaty between us and them, and they do not enter our lands, because they are hostile. As for the others, they are immigrants and treaty partners, so there is a difference between the Jew now and the other disbelievers.
The questioner:
Regarding the workers from among the People of the Book or others, is it permissible to ask about their condition or to give them gifts as a means of calling them to Islam, or?
The Shaykh:
Why should we ask them? They are disbelievers. So giving them worldly things is easy; they are given things and treated kindly. But giving them books of the Qur'an or the Sunnah, or this, is not permissible until they become Muslims. It is permissible to show them from the books of Islam until they become Muslims. But if their Islam is expected, we let them hear the Qur'an and let them hear the hadiths; we present them to them. But that we give them books from the books of Islam, the collections of the Sunnah, or the Qur'an, or books containing hadiths and verses from the books of jurisprudence, this is not what we give them until they become Muslims, because they will insult it.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/64 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (25:48)
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