Al-Tahawi said: "We do not declare anyone from the people of the Qibla a disbeliever for a sin unless he considers it permissible," and the commentator said:

The questioner : ... We seek His help and ask His forgiveness, and we seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our own souls and from the badness of our deeds. Whom Allah guides, no one can mislead, and whom He leaves to mislead, no one can guide. And I bear witness that there is no god but Allah alone, with no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger. As for what follows:
We ask our Shaykh (may Allah preserve him) to allow us to complete some questions regarding the issue of declaring someone a disbeliever, and it would be desirable if...
We will complete some questions regarding the issue of declaring someone a disbeliever, and we will act... accordingly. Al-Tahawi’s statement in *Al-Tahawiyyah*: "We do not declare anyone from the people of the Qibla a disbeliever for a sin unless he considers it permissible." The commentator of *Al-Tahawiyyah* said: "This should be qualified: We do not declare anyone from the people of the Qibla a disbeliever for every sin." Is this qualification correct?

The Shaykh : Yes, we do not declare anyone from the people of the Qibla a disbeliever for any sin they commit. The condition we mentioned in some detail in a previous session is that they do not consider that sin permissible in their heart. If a person commits a sin, even if it is one of the major sins, even if that sin is abandoning the prayer, as long as he acknowledges in the depths of his heart that he is a sinner before his Lord (Mighty and Majestic), he is not declared a disbeliever for that sin, no matter its nature. However, if he considers it permissible in his heart just as he did in his action, that is disbelief that expels one from the religion. There is no difference between one sin and another; it is not permissible to declare a Muslim a disbeliever for a sin except under the condition mentioned earlier. That is, as long as he does not consider it permissible in his belief. If he believes in his heart that it is a sin, and that this belief is obligatory to hold, but his desire and its power overcame him, and he acknowledges it, then I remind you on this occasion of the sin of the one who made that unjust bequest, which we cannot imagine a more unjust bequest than. When he ordered his sons to burn him so that he might be returned to his Lord, that was a sin beyond all others. Yet our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) did not punish him when the man expressed—and Allah knows best what was in his heart—that he did not act or make that unjust bequest in denial of the power of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) or out of the belief that He was incapable of returning him as a sound human being. No, rather he said: "I feared You." So Allah (Mighty and Majestic) forgave him. Thus, the Muslim who commits a major sin while not considering it permissible in his heart—here comes the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): , and here come the hadiths of intercession that distinguish in the conclusion of intercession: . Therefore, the belief of the righteous Salaf and the people of the Sunnah and the community is truly that the one who commits a major sin is an open sinner who does not exit Islam by his major sin.
Other than that?