Do many of the Christians or Jews who say "There is no god but Allah" get saved from the Fire?

The questioner : Many of the Christians or Jews say "There is no god but Allah", so will they be saved from the Fire?

The Shaykh : We have previously answered this when we commented on his saying: , , and this has no value. Many of you must pay attention to the point I will clarify today. Many of the Christians display their Islam for some purpose, either to escape the Christian problem or to marry a Muslim woman. In truth, we must provide a general explanation that reaches these people who have adopted Islam, if that is the correct term. We must draw their attention to the fact that if they apostatize after that and return to their religion, which they believed in and then disbelieved in, they are ruled to be killed. This is because the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . Since this ruling is not prevalent among Muslims today, and its application has also become a forgotten matter, at the very least we must know the ruling. Because if we know the ruling, perhaps we will be able to reach its application one day when the power and authority are in our hands. But if we are ignorant of the legal ruling, we cannot apply it even if the power and authority are in our hands. Therefore, all people, and especially those who become Muslims, must know this. Be aware that if you become a Muslim, you have no return. As it is said in our language in Syria: "I lost my original state until I got what I wanted, but when I got it, my original state became invalid." So this person displayed Islam until he reached his goal, then he returned to his religion. Many of these people show that. So we must make people understand this legal ruling, especially since some contemporary writers today reject this authentic hadith found in al-Bukhari: , and they dismiss it with the verse: . This is due to their ignorance, because the absence of compulsion in religion is one thing, and a disbeliever feigning Islam and then apostatizing after that is another thing. This is a political legal ruling. As for , it is a legal ruling in itself; it never forces anyone to leave their religion. So there is no contradiction between the verse and the hadith, and praise be to Allah. Yes.