A person wanted to kill one of the modernist secularists who mock Islam; is that permissible for him?

The questioner : As for the modernists, what you hear about them is that they spoke out, they attacked the religion of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and the Sunnah of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and we await the ruling of Allah regarding them. And a person who dedicated himself to killing one of these tyrants?

The Shaykh : One of them?

The questioner : The modernists.

Another questioner : The modernists who speak about the essence of Allah and the Sunnah of the Messenger?

The questioner : And they mocked the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).

The Shaykh : They follow the present age.

Another questioner : The poets...

The questioner : And among them are Arabs.

The Shaykh : Do you know that the one who enforces the hudud (fixed Qur'anic punishments) is the ruler?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Or an individual?

The questioner : No, the ruler.

The Shaykh : Well, if the rulers today have deviated from enforcing the hudud of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), that does not mean that some individuals should take it upon themselves to enforce the hudud; because that will increase the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation); because if a Muslim stands up to enforce a hudud, the relatives of the one punished will stand up to take revenge on him, and so the circle of fitnah expands. Therefore, Muslims should work, each within his capacity, to establish a Muslim state that rules by what Allah has revealed, and then all these harms will be removed, and perhaps that will be soon.