Some Salafi Arab mujahideen declare some parties in Afghanistan to be disbelievers or doubt their faith; what is your advice to them?

The questioner : Some Arabs who belong to the Salafi da'wah and who participated to some extent in fighting against the enemies of Allah declare other parties, such as the Islamic Party or the Ittihad or Yunus Khams, to be disbelievers. What is your response to them regarding declaring them disbelievers or doubting their faith?

The Shaykh : We always issue the ruling that it is not permissible, as we understand from the Shari'ah of Allah the Mighty and Majestic, to declare a group collectively to be disbelievers without distinguishing between this one and that one. We see it as a great danger to declare millions of Muslims to be disbelievers, among whom there may be our Salafi brothers, such as Jamil al-Rahman, for example. Jamil al-Rahman was in that region known as Kunar. This does not preclude that there are also people in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and in those other countries, who are upon the methodology of the Book and the Sunnah. How is it permissible for us to say that such-and-such a party is an associate of partners with Allah, or a disbeliever, or, for example, a fanatic for a school of jurisprudence over the Book and the Sunnah? It is not permissible to say this absolute, general statement ever. For justice, as the Exalted said: Therefore, it is not permissible, for example, to say that all the Muslim Brothers are against the Salafi da'wah, or that the Tahrir Party is against the Salafi da'wah. No, we know many individuals from these and those whose faith is the faith of the pious Salaf, but their methodology in da'wah and in attaining rule by the Shari'ah differs from our methodology. We do not want that difference from us, but we also say that it is not permissible to apply these terms to the entirety and comprehensiveness of the groups.