The Ruling on Explaining the Laws of Islam to the New Muslim

The questioner : What is it? That the first thing is to present the laws of Islam, and that the presentation of the hadith of Mu'adh (may Allah be pleased with him) is included, so if they respond, then inform them.

The Shaykh : Yes, but the People of the Book know a great deal from the Book. But now, for example, if they are called to Islam and they have become Muslim, and it is said, "You must pray before the sun rises," and he says, "I have no knowledge of this. I do not pray." Yes, something like this has happened; it has happened. There are people now, and we have heard that it happened to us, that they apostatized after they had become Muslim.

The questioner : All right, our Shaykh, their origin is currently from the heart.

The Shaykh : Yes. But he has become Muslim, and by his Islam his blood is protected, so we say the best is that we do not call them to Islam until we explain the laws of Islam; we explain the laws of Islam first.

The questioner : Hello.

The Shaykh : It is necessary, and no warning or anything else.

The questioner : He is reassured that his soul is inclined to Islam, and he is reassured that it is possible to add the prayer to his obligations.

The Shaykh : It was said to you that the difficult case is if he becomes Muslim and then we say, "It is obligatory for you to pray five times," and he says, "No, I did not become Muslim." This would be apostasy. Out of mercy for him, we explain to him that there is prayer, there is fasting, there is Hajj. Yes, perhaps the issue of circumcision, for example, or his separating from his wife if she is not a People of the Book, this may not be in the public interest to inform him of now, because this might repel him greatly. Where?

The questioner : The obligation of circumcision, circumcision, and how it is more than the five daily prayers and Ramadan.

The Shaykh : Yes, we say do not inform him of such matters that frighten him greatly and are among the fundamentals; remain silent about them until his faith becomes strong.

The questioner : Upon him. If a child is born, the cause of the death of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Sunnah is usually

The Shaykh : They know in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him); they know, not the polytheists who know that the Muslims do such and such, nor the People of the Book, but now you find, for example, in India, that he knows nothing, or in the far east of Asia, whereas the person who knows of Islam and knows that Islam is such and such and Islam is such and such and says yes, there is no problem with this.