The ruling on one who embraces Islam and adopts religious innovation
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There are many Christians who, when they embrace Islam, follow a school of thought other than that of the people of the Sunnah and the community,For example: such as Sufism and Shi'ism. Do we declare them disbelievers because they entered a school other than that of the people of the Sunnah and the righteous Salaf, or do we look at them according to the sect they entered?
If he embraces Islam and affiliates himself with Islam, then adopts an innovated creed, we give him the ruling of the people of that creed. If the innovation is one that entails disbelief, he is a disbeliever, and his transition from Christianity to this disbelieving innovation will not benefit him. If it does not entail disbelief, he is not a disbeliever; but the people of the Sunnah should receive those who embrace Islam, because perhaps one embraces Islam desiring Islam,Then a man who is an innovator comes to him and deceives him, saying: thinking this is Islam, and then commits an innovation because he does not know.
So it is obligatory for the people of the Sunnah to receive those who have recently embraced Islam so that no one with an innovation picks them up.
The questioner: So: he is declared a disbeliever,And this is a normal matter! The Shaykh: As I told you: if he adopts an innovation that entails disbelief, he has the ruling of its followers, and if he adopts an innovation that does not entail disbelief, he has the ruling of its followers.
But it may be said: This Christian who knows nothing about Islam commits an innovation that entails disbelief out of ignorance. So we first teach him that what he has adopted is not correct, and then if he persists, he is judged by the ruling of the people of that innovation.
If he embraces Islam and affiliates himself with Islam, then adopts an innovated creed, we give him the ruling of the people of that creed. If the innovation is one that entails disbelief, he is a disbeliever, and his transition from Christianity to this disbelieving innovation will not benefit him. If it does not entail disbelief, he is not a disbeliever; but the people of the Sunnah should receive those who embrace Islam, because perhaps one embraces Islam desiring Islam,Then a man who is an innovator comes to him and deceives him, saying: thinking this is Islam, and then commits an innovation because he does not know.
So it is obligatory for the people of the Sunnah to receive those who have recently embraced Islam so that no one with an innovation picks them up.
The questioner: So: he is declared a disbeliever,And this is a normal matter! The Shaykh: As I told you: if he adopts an innovation that entails disbelief, he has the ruling of its followers, and if he adopts an innovation that does not entail disbelief, he has the ruling of its followers.
But it may be said: This Christian who knows nothing about Islam commits an innovation that entails disbelief out of ignorance. So we first teach him that what he has adopted is not correct, and then if he persists, he is judged by the ruling of the people of that innovation.