Explanation of the Book: The Beginning of Revelation, Faith, and Knowledge-05b
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The reciter: Muhammad ibn 'Urayrah narrated to us, saying: Shu'bah narrated to us from Zubayd, who said: .
The Shaykh : That is, they say that cursing a Muslim is faith, not open sinfulness, and fighting him is not open sinfulness. This is because they hold that sins do not cause a person to fall into open sinfulness or disbelief, except for what they consider to be disbelief, which causes one to fall into disbelief. As for the sins they do not consider to be disbelief, they say that they do not affect the person, nor does he transition from the description of justice to the description of open sinfulness, nor from the description of faith to the description of disbelief.
Here it becomes clear that open sinfulness is a lower rank than disbelief, because killing is greater than cursing. Thus, cursing is the cause of open sinfulness, and fighting is the cause of disbelief. Then, is the disbelief here the disbelief that expels one from the religion?
No, because he said "disbelief," meaning from the category of disbelief, and it is not the disbelief that expels one from the religion. The evidence for this is His saying, the Exalted:[Al-Hujurat 49:9] until He said: [Al-Hujurat 49:10].
I asked Abu Wa'il about the Murji'ah, and he said: 'Abdullah narrated to me that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Cursing a Muslim is open sinfulness, and fighting him is disbelief."
سألت أبا وائل عن المرجئة فقال : حدثني عبد الله أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال : سباب المسلم فسوق وقتاله كفرThe Shaykh : That is, they say that cursing a Muslim is faith, not open sinfulness, and fighting him is not open sinfulness. This is because they hold that sins do not cause a person to fall into open sinfulness or disbelief, except for what they consider to be disbelief, which causes one to fall into disbelief. As for the sins they do not consider to be disbelief, they say that they do not affect the person, nor does he transition from the description of justice to the description of open sinfulness, nor from the description of faith to the description of disbelief.
Here it becomes clear that open sinfulness is a lower rank than disbelief, because killing is greater than cursing. Thus, cursing is the cause of open sinfulness, and fighting is the cause of disbelief. Then, is the disbelief here the disbelief that expels one from the religion?
No, because he said "disbelief," meaning from the category of disbelief, and it is not the disbelief that expels one from the religion. The evidence for this is His saying, the Exalted: