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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Declaring a Hypocrite a Disbeliever

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Question:
Is it permissible to say to a hypocrite, "You are a disbeliever," for example, or that he is a disbeliever?

Answer:
If you know that he is a disbeliever, then the hypocrites have committed disbelief. Regarding them, it is said that the hypocrites are a trial, and I ask for a helper for them. We ask Allah for safety. They are hypocrites,
That is because they believed, and then they disbelieved; so their hearts were sealed overذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ آمَنُوا ثُمَّ كَفَرُوا فَطُبِعَ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ
[Al-Munafiqun 63:3]
. If you know that he lies about Allah and His Messenger, and that he insults Allah and His Messenger, and if you know this from him, you tell him, "You are lying with this," and you rebuke him. However, if it is merely that he broke a promise or betrayed a trust, he does not become a disbeliever on account of this; he becomes a sinner, committing a type of sin.
If you know that he has major hypocrisy, which is lying about Allah, or lying about His Messenger, or insulting Allah, or insulting His Messenger, or denying Paradise, or denying the Fire, or something similar to these types of denial, and if you know this from him and hear this from him, then you tell him, "With this, you are a disbeliever," so that perhaps he will deny it, or perhaps he will realize it.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 107 ما حكم زراعة القلب؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com (0:18)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

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