Kufr In Perspective (Audio & Notes)

Kufr in Perspective

1. Major Shirk 

• there are two types of shirk: Major and Minor 
• minor shirk doesn’t nullify your shahada, only major shirk does
• to swear by something other than Allah doesn’t nullify your shahada because this is minor shirk.
• however, to sacrifice an animal in the name of a false deity is major shirk so this nullifies your shahada

• Regarding Shirk, Allah said in the Quran: 

• It is worthy of mentioning that there is no excuse for worshipping a false deity. 
• Those who give the excuse of ignorance for worshipping a false deity are misguided
• We refute those who give the excuse of ignorance to the mushrikeen with the Ayah below

• At the treaty of Hudabiyyah the envoy for the pagans of Makkah was Suhail ibn Amr
• When the Rasool (saw) instructed Ali to write “Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Raheem” at the top of the paper, Suhail ibn Amr objected and said they do not acknowledge ar-Rahman” and ar-Raheem”.
• They only acknowledged one God, and that was Allah
• This is clear evidence that even the pagans of Makkah knew that Allah was the only true God.
• The Hadith below is the evidence:

• Also, when some pagans were on a ship and the ship was about to sink, they didn’t call upon their idols for help.
• Instead, they called upon Allah alone
• This is clear evidence that when people are desperate, they go back to their natural instincts and worship Allah alone
• Hence, there is no excuse of ignorance for people who worship a false deity
• About these people on the ship, Allah said:

• The most famous atheist to walk the face of the earth was the Pharaoh
• He even told the people of Egypt that he was their Lord the Most High

• However, when Allah punished the Pharaoh with various types of calamities like the locus, lice, frog, famine, and flood;
• he turned to Prophet Musa and begged him to pray to Allah to remove the punishment from them.
• If the Pharaoh was a real atheist, why did he approach Musa and beg him to pray to Allah on his behalf?
• About this incident, Allah said:

• In another Ayah Allah told us that the Pharaoh believed in his heart, but outwardly he rejected faith in the name of pride, arrogance and haughtiness
• Hence, Allah said: 

• Allah made takfir on those who practice magic in the Quran
• Hence, Allah said:

• Because of the above mentioned Ayah there is ijmaa among the scholars that anyone who dabbles in black magic is a kaafir.
• Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab made black magic one of his 10 nullifiers

• The Holy Prophet (saw) has commanded us to kill the practitioners of black magic in the Islamic State

• This is the plight of the Sufi, Berailvi and the Rafida [Shia]. 
• They are the pagans of the Ummah because they are guilty of this third nullifier
• Allah refers to them as liars and kaafirs in the Ayah below:

• Allah calls them liars and kaafirs because when they recite Surah Fatiha, 
• They say: iyyaka na’budu wa iyyaka nasta’een
• Yet they go to the graves and pray to the inhabitants of the graves
• This means they are not believers in iyyaka na’budu wa iyyaka nasta’een
• Hence, Allah calls them liars and kaafirs

• It is worthy of mentioning that the grave which is worshipped is an idol.
• Because the Prophet (saw) informed us about this reality
• The Hadith below explains further 

• When Umar was the Caliph, the Muslims suffered a severe drought.
• But Umar did not pray to the grave of the Prophet to ask the Prophet to beg Allah to remove the drought
• Instead, Umar begged the Prophet’s uncle Al-Abbas to pray to Allah for rain
• This is because Umar knew it was shirk to pray to the grave of the Prophet and ask for help
• The Hadith below explains further 

• The following Quranic verse is also used to refute the grave worshippers:

• Even Ibles will laugh at those who follow him on Day of Judgement
• Telling them to blame themselves and not to blame him.

• He becomes a kaafir who refuses to call a kaafir a kaafir
• Because by refusing to make takfir on a person who Allah calls a kaafir, such a person is trying to veto Allah
• This person is called an Aathir, excuser.
• Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab mentioned that this is one of the nullifiers of Islam
• So we have no choice but to make takfir on a person when his kufr is clear

• The RAND Foundation believe that the Sufis are natural allies of the West because they do not make takfir
• And they are the Christians of the Ummah

• The Ghulaat Murjia believe that Christians and Jews are not kuffar and that they will be in Paradise on the Day of Judgement
• However, Allah has made takfir on the Jews and Christians and said they are the worst of created creatures in the Ayah below:

• Taking sides with the kuffar against the Muslims nullifies our shahada. 
• Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab mentioned this as his eighth nullifier of Islam: 

• In the following Ayah, Allah said:  

• The Grand Mufti of Spain, ibn Hazm (ra) used the above Ayah to make takfir on anyone who takes side with the kuffar against the Muslims
  

• In our era there are a lot of so-called Muslim countries who are helping the Crusaders to kill Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and Syria.
• These so-called Muslim countries are called apostate regimes
• And no two Muslims disagree regarding this according to Ibn Hazm

• when Abu Bakr became the Caliph, some people refused to pay zakah
• so he killed the men and made the women concubines 
• because they denied zakah, which is one of the five pillars of Islam
• they claimed we pay zakah to Muhammad because he was a Prophet
• but as for Abu Bakr, we are not going to pay him zakah because he is not a Prophet
• he is just an ordinary man like us.
• these people were guilty of making up their own religion
• because they deny that which is known of Islam by necessity
• Abu Bakr had no choice but to make takfir on them
• and kill them as apostates in a battle which was called Huroob ar-Ridda “War Against Apostates”
• the men were killed and their women were taken as concubines.  Umar said about this incident:  

• Iman has six pillars: to believe in Allah, His Angels, His Books, His Messengers, the Day of Judgement and Qadr, Destiny.
• Anyone who denies one of these six pillars has nullifies his shahada
• The following Hadith explains how ibn Abbas responded when he heard about people that denied Qadr

• To mock or ridicule an aspect of Islam like the hijab, beard, jilbab, niqab, salah, or hajj ejects the person outside the fold of Islam.
• In this regard, Allah said:

• Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab mentioned this as one of his nullifiers below:

• To dislike what Allah has revealed, ejects the person outside the fold of Islam
• In this regard, Allah said:
  

• Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab mentions this point as one of the nullifiers of Islam

• If a Muslim women dislikes polygamy she is not a kaafir
• Because she only dislikes the difficulties that come with polygamy
• Likewise, if a Muslim brother dislikes Jihad he is not a kaafir
• Because he only dislikes the difficulties that come with Jihad
• However, if he should dislike the Ayahs about Jihad then he becomes a kaafir
• Because we are not allowed to dislike what Allah has revealed
• This is the same hukm for polygamy
• About the sahabas disliking Jihad, Allah said:

• These people call themselves Quraniyoon 
• We say to them how did you find out that Fajr has two Rakahs, Dhuhr has four, Asr has four, Maghrib has three, Isha has four and Jumuah has two?
• These information are not found in the Quran
• We also say to them how do you reconcile your religion with Allah’s words:
  

• The three Ayahs above make it fard on all Muslims to follow Hadith
• So when you reject Hadith you have become kuffar outside the fold of Islam

• This is the plight of Nation of Islam of America and the Qadiyani movement of India.
• They believe that there was a Prophet after Muhammad (saw)
• Allah refutes them in the Ayah below:

• The Prophet (saw) informed us that there is no Prophet after him in the Hadith below

• If a person dies committing zina or drinking khamr, he didn’t die as a kaafir
• Because zina and khamr are major sins
• But they are not major kufr
• Every major kufr is a major sin
• But not every major sin is a major kufr
• If a person died committing a major kufr, then he died as a kaafir and there is no hope for him in the hereafter
• An example of major kufr is to worship the graves, do magic, or to spy against the mujahideen for the crusaders

• The Ahmadiya are kuffar because they believe that Mirza Ghulam Ahmed was a Prophet after Muhammad (saw)
• Killing a person under Shariah law is in the hands of the Qadi (the Judge within the Islamic State).

• Taking sides with the British to destroy the Caliphate is an act of apostasy
• Even if we have a bad Caliphate, it’s always better to have a bad Caliphate than no Caliphate
• Because a bad Caliphate can be repaired
• Umar ibn Abdul Aziz was a pious Caliph who repaired a bad Caliphate
• Haroon ar-Rasheed was a pious Caliph who repaired a bad Caliphate
• There are many examples in Islamic history where a bad Caliphate was repaired
• The Lawrence of Arabia was a homosexual and an enemy of Islam and Muslims
• His mission was to destroy the Islamic Caliphate

• I saw Yasir Qadhi giving a speech on YouTube and he admitted that he has doubts that Islam is the truth
• When you study Islam with the kuffar, like Yasir Qadhi did, they will never allow you to graduate with a masters or a PhD unless they are sure that you’ve apostated from Islam
• They train you to spread fitna in the Ummah
• Yasir Qadhi was trained by the kuffar at Yale to spread fitna in the Ummah

• Your mother is similar to Abu Talib
• Abu Talib believed in Islam, but he did not take his shahada
• Even the Pharaoh believed in Islam but did not take his shahada
• If your mother doesn’t take her shahada, she wont be saved on the Day of Judgement.  The Quran says even Allah and His angels testify to the Shahada: 

• First of all, Erdogan and Morsi believe in democracy 
• Democracy is the greatest shirk
• So they are not Muslim leaders
• In the eyes of the kuffar they are Muslim leaders
• But, in the eyes of the Muwahhideen and the Mujahideen they are kuffar and not Muslim leaders
• We are not allowed to praise these people who are taghoots
• because of the Hadith below: 

• Allah has made takfir on those who go to the kaafir courthouse for judgement in the following Ayah:

• Allama al-Shinqiti has also made takfir on them in the fatwa below:

• When you make hijra from darul harb to darul Islam you are not allowed to come back
• Only hypocrites and spies return to darul harb 
• When the Rasool (saw) made hijra to Madina, he lived and died in Madina
• He didn’t live anywhere else

• Allah told us that the Prophet loved his Uncle, Abu Talib
• So if the kaafir is a relative who is not antagonistic towards Islam, and you love him/her, you did not do anything wrong
• Because this love is natural
• It is only haram if you love a kaafir relative who is an enemy of Islam