What are the groups whose departure is considered a departure from the community?
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The questioner : The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sunan Abi Dawud 4352Sahih (Al-Albani) I hope you will shed light on the one who departs from the community. Is the community one of the current groups existing on the scene today? Or is the one who departs from the community the one who departs from the prayer congregation? May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : There is no doubt that the intended meaning is not the current groups, because the status of these groups, unfortunately, is as the poet said long ago:
Each one claims to be close to Layla, *** But Layla does not acknowledge their claim.
If one departs from these groups, he has not departed from the community. Therefore, the hadith applies to him if he departs from this or that group? No. The community that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) intends in this hadith is the community he intended in a well-known hadith that you are familiar with; I will mention its last part: This is the community. In another narration that clarifies the community, he said: Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2641Da'if (Darussalam) Is this answer sufficient for you?
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good. So, every group on earth today that does not belong to the first community is, first, in danger of being among the doomed sects that will not be saved, and second, it is not the community from which the blood of one who exits and departs is lawful.
The blood of a Muslim man who testifies that there is no god but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah should not be lawfully shed but only for one of three reasons: married fornicator, soul for soul, and one who deserts his religion separating himself from the community.
لا يحل دم امرئ مسلم إلا بإحدى ثلاث : الثيّب الزاني ، والنفس بالنفس ، والتارك لدينه المفارق للجماعةThe Shaykh : There is no doubt that the intended meaning is not the current groups, because the status of these groups, unfortunately, is as the poet said long ago:
Each one claims to be close to Layla, *** But Layla does not acknowledge their claim.
If one departs from these groups, he has not departed from the community. Therefore, the hadith applies to him if he departs from this or that group? No. The community that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) intends in this hadith is the community he intended in a well-known hadith that you are familiar with; I will mention its last part:
...And my community will split into seventy-three sects, all in the Fire except one. They said: Who are they, O Messenger of Allah? He said: It is the community.
... وستفترق أمتي على ثلاث وسبعين فرقة كلها في النار إلا واحدة ، قالوا: من هي يارسول الله ؟ قال هي الجماعةWhat I am upon and my Companions.
هي ما أنا عليه و أصحابيThe questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good. So, every group on earth today that does not belong to the first community is, first, in danger of being among the doomed sects that will not be saved, and second, it is not the community from which the blood of one who exits and departs is lawful.
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