What is your opinion of the one who explained the takfir-inducing act of declaring lawful what is unlawful as follows: claiming justice while deviating from the ruling of Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), without making denial a condition?
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The questioner : What is your opinion of the one who explained the takfir-inducing act of declaring lawful what is unlawful as follows: claiming justice while deviating from the ruling of Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), without making denial a condition, and attributed this to the consensus of the Muslims?
The Shaykh : Perhaps the intended meaning of "justice" is "deviation"!
The questioner : I mean, for example!
The Shaykh : The intended meaning of "justice" is "deviation." What is "claiming justice"?
The questioner : I mean, for example, they call it the Ministry of Justice while they rule by other than what Allah has revealed. So they claim justice but do not rule by what Allah has revealed. Like what we hear in the lands of the Muslims: the Ministry of Justice, or the Minister of Justice, or this judge rules with justice, yet he has not ruled by what Allah has revealed. So this...The questioner : It is as if he is going around in circles, claiming justice while he has not ruled with justice!
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : That is how it is, and Allah knows best.
The Shaykh : Is this the intended meaning?
The questioner : Yes, indeed. He deviated from the ruling and claimed it. He deviates from the ruling of Allah and then claims justice.
The Shaykh : That is strange. Now, if a person claims that he is a believer, and the believer is described by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) as:Sunan Ibn Majah 3934Hasan (Darussalam), but the people are not safe from him, would he be a disbeliever?
The questioner : You have done well.
The Shaykh: Huh?
The questioner : You have done well.
The Shaykh : All of this is mere talk and deception of the people. It is said to them:[Al-Baqarah 2:111]. We have now brought a hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding the believer and the Muslim: Sunan an-Nasa'i 4995Sahih (Darussalam). So, if the people are not safe from him, is he not a Muslim? The matter comes back to whether faith increases and decreases, or does not increase and not decrease. The Khawarij and the Mu'tazilah hold that faith is a single unit; if a part of it is absent, the whole is absent, and vice versa. We hold that faith is divisible. I think the answer is clear.
The questioner : Yes, indeed, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Perhaps the intended meaning of "justice" is "deviation"!
The questioner : I mean, for example!
The Shaykh : The intended meaning of "justice" is "deviation." What is "claiming justice"?
The questioner : I mean, for example, they call it the Ministry of Justice while they rule by other than what Allah has revealed. So they claim justice but do not rule by what Allah has revealed. Like what we hear in the lands of the Muslims: the Ministry of Justice, or the Minister of Justice, or this judge rules with justice, yet he has not ruled by what Allah has revealed. So this...The questioner : It is as if he is going around in circles, claiming justice while he has not ruled with justice!
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : That is how it is, and Allah knows best.
The Shaykh : Is this the intended meaning?
The questioner : Yes, indeed. He deviated from the ruling and claimed it. He deviates from the ruling of Allah and then claims justice.
The Shaykh : That is strange. Now, if a person claims that he is a believer, and the believer is described by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) as:
the one from whom their (people’s) wealth and lives are safe
من أمنه الناس على دمه ومالهThe questioner : You have done well.
The Shaykh: Huh?
The questioner : You have done well.
The Shaykh : All of this is mere talk and deception of the people. It is said to them:
Produce your proof, if you should be truthful."
هَاتُوا بُرْهَانَكُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَThe Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand the people are safe
المسلم مَن سلم الناس مِن لسانه ويدهThe questioner : Yes, indeed, O Shaykh.
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