What is the guidance for the young people who rush to declare others disbelievers?

Question : This questioner asks, saying: Your Eminence the Shaykh, what is your guidance regarding some of the young people who rush to declare others disbelievers?

Answer : In reality, this does not need an answer, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) has already answered it. He said: If one declares a disbeliever someone for whom the Sharia evidence for declaring them a disbeliever has not been established, then he himself becomes the disbeliever. This does not need an answer because the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) has already answered it.
Therefore, the statement of declaring someone a disbeliever is a very serious matter. A person should not think that the abundance of his prayer, his recitation of the Qur'an, his recitation of hadith, and his recitation of knowledge will save him from the punishment of Allah if he is not upon the Shari'ah of Allah. Do you not know that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) informed us that the Khawarij preserve the Companions' prayer in their prayer and their recitation in their recitation, but faith does not enter their hearts? They recite the Qur'an, but it does not go beyond their throats, , because they declared the Muslims disbelievers and made their blood and wealth lawful, despite all their acts of worship. So, the one who declares another disbeliever without authority from Allah the Exalted and Majestic is certainly going to be declared a disbeliever himself, unless Allah wills and guides him. Declaring someone a disbeliever is a legal ruling that is not for us to decide. Do we have the right to forbid or permit except by the permission of Allah? Answer me, people: No, it is not for us to declare someone a disbeliever or to send faith, except by the permission of Allah. And this last one erred, because if you say to a person, "This is a disbeliever," what does that mean? It means his blood is made lawful, his wealth is made lawful, it is forbidden for him to cohabit with his wife, his guardianship over his children is stripped away, and if he dies, he is not buried with the Muslims, nor washed, nor prayed over. So it is a serious matter, because it is a light matter? No, the matter is not just the word "disbelief" or "disbeliever"; the matter entails great consequences. So the important thing is that I warn against uttering the word "disbelief" for one whom Allah and His Messenger have not declared a disbeliever. And I say to the one who uttered it that he must bear the consequences of it as long as the other one is not a disbeliever by the ruling of Allah. And I remind him of what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) described regarding the Khawarij, who preserve the Companion's prayer in their prayer and his recitation in their recitation, and yet the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said that they emerge from Islam as an arrow emerges from a quiver. And he informed us that they say the best of the words of calamity; they say great, good words that one would like to hear, saying, "This is the truth," but, may Allah protect us, the Qur'an does not go beyond their throats. I warn Allah and you, and I ask Allah the Exalted to put faith in all our hearts, the people of the Sunnah.

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