What is the ruling in the Shari'ah regarding one who conceals in his heart hatred for his Muslim brother, that hatred being based on the desires of the self or beliefs he considers correct?
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The questioner : What is the ruling in the Shari'ah regarding one who conceals in his heart hatred for his Muslim brother, that hatred being based on the desires of the self or beliefs he considers correct, especially what occurs between Islamic groups in this time; whether it is in an individual or collective form?
The second part of the question.
The Shaykh : No, let's stick to one question at a time. Repeat the question. What is the ruling?
The questioner :
The Shaykh : The answer: The hatred you are asking about, and you likely qualified it in your question as being in the heart, if it is limited to being merely hatred in the heart, then in Islam the Muslim is not held accountable for it. However, in the full context of your question, it is a natural matter that hatred which takes hold in the heart must manifest its effect on the body; at that point, accountability is realized. In other words, if we imagine a person, for example, who hates an imam who leads the people in prayer, and this imam, for example, consumes riba (usury or interest), he hates him, but he hates him only in his heart, yet he prays behind him and does not refrain from praying behind him. This hatred is not one for which he is held accountable from two aspects: the first aspect is that the imam is sinful because he consumes riba (usury or interest), and the second aspect is that he did not respond to his hatred of him to the extent that he prayed behind him while hating him, because he wants him to be a righteous imam.
I am now developing the question: that this imam is not consuming riba (usury or interest), nor is he committing a forbidden act, but as stated in the question itself, he adopts a specific direction, meaning he is partisan, and he hates him for this partisanship, but he does not know of any evil in him that he hates for this specific evil, which is the same reason he hated the first one. Despite this, he prays behind him. Neither of these two is held accountable at all.
But in the full context of the question, as I said, what is happening in this time is not a matter of the heart, but a manifest matter. So if this that has occurred, I say: we must weigh it with the Shari'ah scale, with the straight balance. If this that has occurred contradicts Islam, then he is held accountable, not because he concealed his hatred for him, but because his hatred manifested on his limbs. And if the reason for which he hated him, and his hatred manifested on his limbs, does not merit that he be hated, then he is held accountable for that as long as it manifested on his limbs. However, if it settles in his inner self and he constantly fights himself to prevent this settled hatred from appearing, then this is a struggle against the self that commands evil; so there is no accountability on him.
Have I answered your first question?
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : And you, bring the second one.
The second part of the question.
The Shaykh : No, let's stick to one question at a time. Repeat the question. What is the ruling?
The questioner :
The Shaykh : The answer: The hatred you are asking about, and you likely qualified it in your question as being in the heart, if it is limited to being merely hatred in the heart, then in Islam the Muslim is not held accountable for it. However, in the full context of your question, it is a natural matter that hatred which takes hold in the heart must manifest its effect on the body; at that point, accountability is realized. In other words, if we imagine a person, for example, who hates an imam who leads the people in prayer, and this imam, for example, consumes riba (usury or interest), he hates him, but he hates him only in his heart, yet he prays behind him and does not refrain from praying behind him. This hatred is not one for which he is held accountable from two aspects: the first aspect is that the imam is sinful because he consumes riba (usury or interest), and the second aspect is that he did not respond to his hatred of him to the extent that he prayed behind him while hating him, because he wants him to be a righteous imam.
I am now developing the question: that this imam is not consuming riba (usury or interest), nor is he committing a forbidden act, but as stated in the question itself, he adopts a specific direction, meaning he is partisan, and he hates him for this partisanship, but he does not know of any evil in him that he hates for this specific evil, which is the same reason he hated the first one. Despite this, he prays behind him. Neither of these two is held accountable at all.
But in the full context of the question, as I said, what is happening in this time is not a matter of the heart, but a manifest matter. So if this that has occurred, I say: we must weigh it with the Shari'ah scale, with the straight balance. If this that has occurred contradicts Islam, then he is held accountable, not because he concealed his hatred for him, but because his hatred manifested on his limbs. And if the reason for which he hated him, and his hatred manifested on his limbs, does not merit that he be hated, then he is held accountable for that as long as it manifested on his limbs. However, if it settles in his inner self and he constantly fights himself to prevent this settled hatred from appearing, then this is a struggle against the self that commands evil; so there is no accountability on him.
Have I answered your first question?
The questioner : May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh : And you, bring the second one.
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