Some say that peace and treaties with disbelievers are disbelief, so what is your opinion?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, regarding the issue of peace with disbelievers, some mention that this is absolute disbelief?
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner : That it is absolute disbelief.
The Shaykh : Which is...
The questioner : Peace with disbelievers.
The Shaykh : Peace with them or toward them?
The questioner : Peace toward them.
The Shaykh : Meaning, if you greet a disbeliever.
The questioner : No, no, the treaty with them and the reconciliation.
The Shaykh : Reconciliation, reconciliation. Yes, my brother, in these matters, a person must speak with knowledge. He must speak with knowledge.
And you know that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) made a treaty with Quraysh for ten years until they broke the treaty, then he campaigned against them and conquered Makkah. The scholars mentioned that reconciliation with non-Muslims is permissible when there is an inability to fight them, but some of them restricted this to ten years, and some said: it is permissible without restriction.
Then, if the Muslims gain strength, at that time they campaign against the disbelievers until they submit or pay the jizyah (tax on protected non-Muslims) from their hand while they are humbled. In matters like this, a person must speak with knowledge, not with emotion. Otherwise, we dislike all disbelievers and we wish that the word of Allah is the highest in every place, but speaking with emotion based on ignorance is not permissible. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-A'raf 7:33] And look at the words of the previous scholars in the book of jihad, in the chapter of truce, how they detailed it and explained it. As for the one who says that reconciliation with disbelievers is disbelief, this is an error. Yes, if a person denies the obligation of jihad, then we inform him with the evidence indicating that jihad is obligatory, and then he still denies it, then that is the one about whom it may be said that he is a disbeliever. Yes, that is correct.
The questioner : Your Eminence... your visit... we came to greet you. May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And upon you and them be peace.
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner : That it is absolute disbelief.
The Shaykh : Which is...
The questioner : Peace with disbelievers.
The Shaykh : Peace with them or toward them?
The questioner : Peace toward them.
The Shaykh : Meaning, if you greet a disbeliever.
The questioner : No, no, the treaty with them and the reconciliation.
The Shaykh : Reconciliation, reconciliation. Yes, my brother, in these matters, a person must speak with knowledge. He must speak with knowledge.
And you know that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) made a treaty with Quraysh for ten years until they broke the treaty, then he campaigned against them and conquered Makkah. The scholars mentioned that reconciliation with non-Muslims is permissible when there is an inability to fight them, but some of them restricted this to ten years, and some said: it is permissible without restriction.
Then, if the Muslims gain strength, at that time they campaign against the disbelievers until they submit or pay the jizyah (tax on protected non-Muslims) from their hand while they are humbled. In matters like this, a person must speak with knowledge, not with emotion. Otherwise, we dislike all disbelievers and we wish that the word of Allah is the highest in every place, but speaking with emotion based on ignorance is not permissible. Allah the Exalted said:
Say, "My Lord has only forbidden immoralities - what is apparent of them and what is concealed - and sin, and oppression without right, and that you associate with Allah that for which He has not sent down authority, and that you say about Allah that which you do not know."
قُلْ إِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ رَبِّيَ الْفَوَاحِشَ مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا وَمَا بَطَنَ وَالْأِثْمَ وَالْبَغْيَ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ وَأَنْ تُشْرِكُوا بِاللَّهِ مَا لَمْ يُنَزِّلْ بِهِ سُلْطَاناً وَأَنْ تَقُولُوا عَلَى اللَّهِ مَا لا تَعْلَمُونَThe questioner : Your Eminence... your visit... we came to greet you. May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And upon you and them be peace.