I work in a company with disbelievers, so is it permissible for me, for example, to smile in their faces for a worldly benefit?
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The questioner : May Allah preserve you, O Shaykh. We work in a company with disbelievers. Is it permissible to be affectionate toward them to gain a worldly objective, such as smiling in their faces?
The Shaykh : You will not find a people who, when they hear the verse:[Al-Mujadila 58:22] do not take the disbelievers as close friends, do not know that Ibrahim and his people said to their people: [Al-Mumtahanah 60:4] complete the verse [Al-Mumtahanah 60:4] This matter is not trivial; what is in your heart is affection for them.
As for dealing with them while you hold dislike in your heart, that is a different matter. But to love them or to be hypocritical with them... [saying] that they are on a religion and that there is no blame on them if they continue in what they are upon, that is the very essence of what is forbidden.
The Shaykh : You will not find a people who, when they hear the verse:
You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred
لا تَجِدُ قَوْماً يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ يُوَادُّونَ مَنْ حَادَّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَلَوْ كَانُوا آبَاءَهُمْ أَوْ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ أَوْ إِخْوَانَهُمْ أَوْ عَشِيرَتَهُمْIndeed, we are disassociated from you and from whatever you worship other than Allah
إِنَّا بُرَآءُ مِنْكُمْ وَمِمَّا تَعْبُدُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِWe have denied you, and there has appeared between us and you animosity and hatred forever until you believe in Allah alone
كَفَرْنَا بِكُمْ وَبَدَا بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمُ الْعَدَاوَةُ وَالْبَغْضَاءُ أَبَداً حَتَّى تُؤْمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَحْدَهُAs for dealing with them while you hold dislike in your heart, that is a different matter. But to love them or to be hypocritical with them... [saying] that they are on a religion and that there is no blame on them if they continue in what they are upon, that is the very essence of what is forbidden.