What is the correct meaning of loyalty to disbelievers?
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Question:
The questioner says: There are those who interpret loyalty as the presence of disbelievers in these lands, protecting them from killing and bombing, and not boycotting the countries that fight Muslims. Is this statement correct?
Answer:
You have heard that this statement is not correct. It is obligatory to fulfill covenants and to protect the blood of those with whom we have treaties just as we protect the blood of Muslims. Allah has forbidden[Al-Isra 17:33]. What Allah has forbidden includes the believer and the one with whom a treaty is made. Allah has forbidden killing the one with whom a treaty is made. Therefore, it is not permissible, and whoever kills one with whom a treaty is made will not smell the fragrance of Paradise, as in al-Bukhari. As for commercial boycott, this follows what is beneficial and what is harmful. The default is permissibility; the default in transactions is permissibility. But if boycotting them causes harm to them, and the one in authority sees that they should be boycotted and issues an order to boycott them, then we boycott them. As for everyone issuing a ruling to boycott them, forbidding what is lawful, and overruling the one in authority, this is not permissible. Yes.
The questioner says: There are those who interpret loyalty as the presence of disbelievers in these lands, protecting them from killing and bombing, and not boycotting the countries that fight Muslims. Is this statement correct?
Answer:
You have heard that this statement is not correct. It is obligatory to fulfill covenants and to protect the blood of those with whom we have treaties just as we protect the blood of Muslims. Allah has forbidden
And do not kill the soul which Allah has forbidden, except by right.
وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا النَّفْسَ الَّتِي حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما المعنى الصحيح لموالاة الكافرين؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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