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Ruling by Other Than What Allaah Has Revealed and Takfir

All praise is due to Allaah, we praise Him, seek His aid and His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allaah from the evils of our souls and the evils of our actions. Whomsoever Allaah guides there is none to misguide and whomsoever Allaah misguides there is none to guide. And I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah alone, without any partners. And I testify that Muhammad is His servant and messenger.

To proceed:

This [issue] is "of the greatest of matters by which the rulers of this time have been put to trial. So it is necessary for a person not to be hasty in making a judgement against them, [one] that they do not really deserve, unless and until the truth has become clear to them, since this affair is very dangerous" [Majmu' Fatawa Fadilat ush-Shaikh Muhammad bin Salih al-Uthaimin (6/162)] and its results are bitter [indeed]

Amongst the foundational principles acknowledged and considered by the people of knowledge in the issues pertaining to Eemaan is that "kufr (disbelief) is of two types:

- the disbelief in action
- the disbelief of denial, rejection (juhood) and wilful resistance ('inaad)

And this latter type - the kufr of juhood - is that a person disbelieves on account of something about which it is known that the Messenger (sas) brought it from Allaah - due to [his] rejection and wilful resistance to it - [such as] the Names of the Lord, His Attributes and His Actions, or His rulings, the basis of which is His Tawheed and worshipping Him without associating any partners to Him." [Usul wa Dawabit fit-Takfir p.36 of Shaikh Abdul-Latif Ibn Abdur-Rahman bin Hasan Aal-ash-Shaikh]

And for the purpose of making the truth clear in this great and lofty matter, it is absolutely necessary to quote the sayings of the leading scholars of knowledge who are trustworthy and just, for their words - may Allaah have mercy upon - constitute the clear and decisive word in front of which every other saying is cut off and every excitation that is full of empty sentiments and emotions is ended.

This is because the opposers - due to a habit of theirs - fold up these quotations [in their hands] and hide them from their followers! And when they show them, then they do so with other than their proper meanings, quoting them whilst taking them away from their proper import…

From the introduction to the forthcoming
SP publication, "The Fitnah of Takfir", a compilation
of the statements of Imaam al-Albani, Imaam Ibn Baz and
Shaikh Ibn Uthaimeen on this great topic.

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