Takfir: Is it required immediately?
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The questioner : Is takfir required immediately?
The Shaykh : Yes, that is correct.
The questioner : All right, this man.
The Shaykh : Takfir is required immediately, and this is a principle we have previously discussed, I think, in the principles of jurisprudence, that obligatory acts are required immediately without delay. Yes, that is correct.
The questioner : ... he says, I ... .
The Shaykh : Thirty oaths, at the end of the month I will expiate with one expiation. Is that right?
The questioner : ... two or three days.
The Shaykh : All right, as for the opinion we preferred, it is that delay is not beneficial.
The questioner : It is necessary ...
The Shaykh : If we say that every act has an expiation.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : If the oaths and acts are multiple, then each one has an expiation; this is what benefits him. As for the school of thought, it benefits him, but it appears to me that if the man intends to be cunning, we will punish him with the opposite of his intention. Yes, yes, Abd al-Rahman?
The Shaykh : Yes, that is correct.
The questioner : All right, this man.
The Shaykh : Takfir is required immediately, and this is a principle we have previously discussed, I think, in the principles of jurisprudence, that obligatory acts are required immediately without delay. Yes, that is correct.
The questioner : ... he says, I ... .
The Shaykh : Thirty oaths, at the end of the month I will expiate with one expiation. Is that right?
The questioner : ... two or three days.
The Shaykh : All right, as for the opinion we preferred, it is that delay is not beneficial.
The questioner : It is necessary ...
The Shaykh : If we say that every act has an expiation.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : If the oaths and acts are multiple, then each one has an expiation; this is what benefits him. As for the school of thought, it benefits him, but it appears to me that if the man intends to be cunning, we will punish him with the opposite of his intention. Yes, yes, Abd al-Rahman?