Continuation of the explanation of the hadith of Umm Salama that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Then there will be rulers, and you will know [what is right] and deny [what is wrong]. Whoever knows [the truth] is free [of blame], and whoever denies [the wrong] is safe, but…”
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The Shaykh : As is the truth, by the evidence of the Book and the Sunnah, and the consensus of the Companions on this matter. The grammatical parsing of “as long as they pray” is that “ma” is an adverbial particle of duration, and the implied meaning is: “for the duration of their prayer,” meaning: as long as they pray, do not fight them, even if they commit the sins they commit.