The Meaning of the Scholars' Statement: Denying What Is Known Necessarily from the Religion

The Shaykh : Here, the scholars use the phrase "denying what is known necessarily from the religion." I will give you an example: the one who denies the prohibition of intoxicants is considered a disbeliever who has apostatized from the religion, because this is known necessarily from the religion. This is not the case for the one who denies the prohibition of hashish, opium, or this smoke that has afflicted the general public; these people are not declared disbelievers because they do not deny what is known necessarily from the religion in the first place. Furthermore, they find many people who they think are scholars issuing fatwas to them that this is disliked, and leaving it is better than this statement. Therefore, whoever denies what is known necessarily from the religion, and then the legal proof is established against him from the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he denies and rejects it, then he is the disbeliever. It does not concern us whether he is a Sunni affiliated with the Sunnah, or with the Shi'ah, or with others. This is the end of the answer to the question, but