Advice of Scholars - WHOM WE SHOULDN’T DISTRUST?

It is wrong to say we shouldn’t distrust anybody. Its correct form is “We shouldn’t distrust a Muslim. ” In other words, when a person, who says that he is Muslim and does not express a word or does not do an action rendering him a disbeliever, says or does something which may mean belief as well as disbelief, we should understand it as belief, and we should not say that he has dissented from the religion.

But when a person strives to demolish the religion and to make youngsters kâfir, or if he, saying “good” about one of the harâms, tries to make it popular so that everybody commits it, or if he says that one of Allahu ta’âlâ’s commands is retrogressive and harmful, he is called “kâfir”. Even if he says that he is a Muslim, performs namâz (ritual prayer) and goes on a hajj (pilgrimage), he is still called a Zindîq. It would be stupidity to regard such hypocritical persons, who deceive Muslims, as Muslims.

Allahu ta’âlâ in the twenty-eighth âyat of Sûrat-ut-Tawba of the Qur’ân al-kerîm says, “Najas and rîjs,” that is, “foul,” about disbelievers. Then, disbelief should be foul and base in the eyes of Muslims. Allahu ta’âlâ declares in the fourteenth âyat of Sûrat-ur Ra’d and in the fiftieth âyat of sûrat-ul Mu’min, “The prayers of these enemies are without a result. There is no possibility of them being accepted. ”

Allahu ta’âlâ and His Prophet are pleased with Muslims. There cannot be a greater blessing than attaining Allah’s consent and love.