When Can You Call Someone a Disbeliever?

Swindell Rahman over him at hamdulillahi rabbil alameen salat wa salam o allah rasool e kareem either early he was happy huge main.

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Sharika lahu al la sala he no ash hadu.

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Ajma'in i'm adam thank you to everybody on the livestream for joining us today this afternoon and shall law continuing our brief course comprised of about four sessions with regards to various superstitions various false beliefs that would nullify a person's islam either partially or completely right this is what is referred to by the scholars of islam as co for a kebab welcome for auto-ship when a kebab or shere khan asaf los become the scholars of islam have divided the types of association of partners unto Allah they have divided it into two types and wherever in the Quran in the Sun now we find a type of shift mentioned it is going to fall into one of these two types some scholars have mentioned it into three types categorized it the point is is that the first type is major shift what's meant by major major is that it will completely nullify a person's Islam meaning that this person in doing this act will exit the fold of Islam right this is called major ship worshipping idols things that right the second type is what is referred to as minor shift now minor is relative meaning it is only minor compared to it's more serious major counterpart major shift but it is no minor thing in the religion of a loss of Hanna without it the scholars of Islam have agreed that minor shift is more heinous and serious than any major sin in Islam minor shift is anything that has been considered in the Quran in the Sunna but does not take a person out of the fold of his limb such as the app showing off somehow bragging about a person's warship you know talisman Goodluck charms all of these things that we were speaking about in previous sessions these are all types of minor for the most part while they can become major ship but for the most part they are considered types of minor now the difference again the key difference between major and minor shift is that minor completely takes a person out of the fold of his net this person becomes no longer a Muslim minor ship a person is considered to have committed the sin of but is still considered to be a Muslim which means that this person has invalidated a portion of his Aslam not all of his system a portion of it now when we discuss these issues of major and minor ship major and minor Khufu major and minor you know there's many of them major and minor hypocrisy all right when we discuss these things we are not passing a judgment or a ruling on any particular person we are speaking about these things in the abstract at this point meaning do not take what we say here and apply it to any individual right including yourself what I mean is the ruling of this person you are not to take these statements or generalities that we are discussing in the abstract and then apply them to any other person to say this person is out of the fold of Islam this person is invalidated a portion of his aslam because there is a difference between the ruling and the person that does it there is a difference that the scholars of Islam have made a distinction and that is that for something to be considered the act to be considered shipped or Co flawed or what-have-you this is clear in the Book of Allah and the son of the prophets a little loan you asylum however to apply this to a person there are many conditions right and there are many what the scholars refer to as melenik things that will defer the judgment to where the judgments will not apply to that person so these conditions have to be met and these things which prevent a person from falling into that Court category have to all be absent right so for example let's take a good example from the sudden of the prophets on the law on you ascendant in the abstract let's mention the narration and then discuss the ruling so the Prophet sallallahu wasallam mentioned in sahih al-bukhari and this is one this is one narration of many many narrations that discuss this issue the profits all alone he was said lemon saw he had wada mentioned that a man of some previous nation was a person who had acquired much sin and he had exceptionally wrong to himself in way of disobedience to a law and sinfulness and when he was about to die and he was essentially drawing his final breaths he was on his deathbed he said to his children who were around him he said when I die cremate my body take half of the ashes and throw them into the sea and the other half of the ashes and disperse them into the wind because if Allah does resurrect me he will punish me a punishment that no one will ever have seen the likes of now let's take a moment here and look at this statement that he made we can see that he is in a state of immense fear right overwhelming amounts of anxiety because he is about to meet a law having incurred all of this sin in disobedience and so he commands his children to do something that if he really believes in this this is a type of cool so for a person to believe that if you are cremated and half of your ashes are scattered here and half are scattered there that Allah will not be able to reassemble you will not be able to resurrect you by doing so obviously this is disbelief right but what drove him to such belief he is looking at this point for any any purpose any anything that he can do to try to escape the wrath and anger of a loss of Hannibal without it what has driven him to this obviously his belief in a look he believes in Allah now one of two things either he was so overwhelmed with anxiety that he wasn't thinking correctly and so he said this things to his children or he was so ignorant of allah subhanaw taala and so uneducated that he had little to no understanding of who allah subhanaw taala is or knowledge we should say of who a loss of high notes at it is so the prophet sallallaahu seldom mentions in the narration that allah subhanahu wata'ala then resurrected this man after he had died and his children had done this and he asked the man what drove you to do this and he said fear of meeting you fear of your punishment and the prophet sallal oh I do seldom said that upon this a loss of hano is Allah forgave him admitted him into paradise now Allah subhana WA Ta'ala forgave him forgiveness is something that is conditional meaning a person must meet a set of conditions in the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet SAW alone on even cellular to be forgiven in the hereafter right and one of those conditions is that a person be a Muslim and so we see that this person is a Muslim but because of these Malena so we can say that act or that belief is Kufa is a belief of this is a belief of Kufa it is a type of disbelief in Allah that you do not believe that Allah can resurrect the dead and this is clear through the Quran right so in the abstract that statement that belief that action is a type of khufu right but when we apply that ruling to this person we see that there is now a difference between the action of coho and a person who is a calf if someone who has exited the fold of Islam why because there are conditions to this a person can only exit the fold of Islam when they intentionally no this is this is wrong this is ship this will take me out of the fold of Islam and then they do it right so there has to be action there has to be knowledge there has to be intention there has to be the mental capacity a person has to be a sound mind right and when we say of sound mind they're not drunk they're not intoxicated they're not inebriated they're not overwhelmed with any kind of emotion that would cloud their judgment or cause them to misspeak right we could take another example of this and the reason we are dwelling on this is because of its importance people oftentimes and many beginning people who are in their beginning stages of learning about us then they have a very hard time separating between the ruling and the abstract and the application of this ruling to a person the application of this ruling to a person is something that has such strict such strict conditions that have to be met in order for this person to have this ruling of having exited the the fold of Islam that some scholars of Islam have mentioned it is about as unlikely to find all of these conditions being met as it would be to climb a tree and find a cow had Clement climbed the tree ahead of you and sitting on top of the tree this is extremely unlikely possible I suppose but very highly improbable another example of this is when we have there is a narration in wahad a.m. listen him on the authority Venice that a man the prophet sallallaahu a seldom said Allah is more more pleased ecstatic with your repentance than any of you would be if he had lost his riding animal his camel upon which was it was where his provisions his water his sustenance in a huge desert now he's unable to find his way he has no hope of reaching civilization and so he finds the shade of a tree he sits under this tree and waits for death become hopeless that he will ever make it out of this desert alive and then he looks up and there is his camel had come back to him with all of his you know whether it's his maps or his water as provisions etc and upon seeing his camel there in front of him and upon seeing that he now has his hope restored of being able to make it out of this predicament alive he says out of enthusiasm Aloha and table do you want another oh Allah you are my servant and I am your Lord the prophets all alone on you asylum said Ozma I mean she didn't thought that he you know he misspoke because he was so excited and so relieved now this statement oh Allah you are my servant and I am your Lord in the abstract we say this statement is a statement of disbelief this is not a statement of belief this would take a person out of the fold of his limb to believe such a thing to say such a thing however we see that extreme amounts of joy or extreme amounts of relief caused him to miss speak so the person's mind becomes clouded based on how their emotions color things for them for this reason in Sunna and an essay the prophet sallal own idea was seldom prohibited that a person judge that a judge make a judgment while he is angry right because your anger will magnify the negative and mitigates the positive right so the point is is that when we discuss major minor major coup for minor couple etc etc we are not speaking about any person we are not speaking about any people we are speaking about the ruling of these things in the abstract as opposed as found in the Quran and in the Sunna to apply these rulings to a person no this is something that has many conditions and can only be done by someone who is a judge right in that sense so again we are discussing these things in the abstract and we are not you know applying these rulings to any person so if you see somebody doing something you don't want to exclaim that they are no longer Muslim or something of this sort because this is exactly the kind of bigotry and exactly the kind of ignorance that has caused people throughout human history to spill each other's blood to transgress against one another in the name of religion in the name of Islam right this is not not correct at all this is not correct at all and so another another example of this that we can discuss is the example of a person who is not Muslim now when we say a person to enter paradise must be Muslim this is the condition this is the prerequisite of entering paradise so does that mean that every single individual that dies upon not being Muslim will enter the Hellfire the answer is in the abstract yes but applying that abstract ruling to people then the answer may be no because there may be a number of things that were not met conditions that were not met right the person never heard of his left the person heard of Islam in an extremely distorted manner which caused the person to discredit it right the person is does not have the mental capacity to embrace a snail or to understand it or to take it seriously these are what are called in law mitigating factors right and these mitigating factors of our serious with a loss of Hanna what either so for this reason it but not best will be Allah why Allah says it is not for any individual to claim that any other person is in paradise or in hellfire the only way we know if somebody is in paradise or in the Hellfire is if a loss of Hannah Matata tells us that or if the prophets all along on you ascendant tells us that otherwise we have no way of knowing that we have no way of knowing if we ourselves I cannot tell you myself with any certainty where I will be let alone to tell you where anyone else will be and this narration is in Asahi aware one of the wives of one of the companions who passed away she had said that this person is to Paradise for sure and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa seldom asked her how do you know this he said I spy the meaning of the narration I swear by Allah I am The Messenger of Allah and I don't even know what will be done with me now this obviously is to drive home the fact and to articulate emphatically just how just how much of our affairs is in the hands of Allah and to the judgments of a loss of Hanna Toyota we are in a position of being judged not in a position of judging so I want to mention that very importantly it's an important introduction to these topics when we discuss topics of Islam and when we discuss topics of belief in disbelief and entering the fold of Islam and exiting the fold of Islam and all these things we are not speaking about any individual we are speaking about in the abstract these things this is the ruling of a loss of Hanna Matata in this thing and so the only person you can control and the only person you should apply this to is yourself right the only person you should apply this to you should teach this to others you should teach your families these things right judgement is reserved for allah subhanho wa taala allah subhanho wa taala says in no uncertain terms in the quran in in hook Mullally left that judgment is reserved only for a loss of Hanna with right and so we judge based on the judgment to whole law that's it that's all the judge does a judge in Islamic law judges only by thee by the judgment of Allah or what he presumes is the judgment of Allah to the best of his abilities likewise we view the world in the way that we are told by a loss of Han Matata and the prophets all along I knew a senator regardless of how we feel this is right and this is wrong and those lines are drawn in the sand right it is not for any person to come and categorize something as right or wrong without authority from Allah subhana WA Ta'ala well subhana Allah said well Atta who knew limit oclc not to communicate deeper the higher animal had a Haram bleach after ala llahi caddy he said and do not say to those things which your tongues described this is Hallel this is lawful and this is unlawful which in tale will be a type of fabrication of lie against a law and falsehood unless Allah Subhan Allah to Allah determine something as right or wrong we have no right to do that right likewise a scholar a scholar does not bring us new rulings since this is not what a scholar does right this is not you know some religions pundits or or priests or these these types of people rabbis they can judge for people that this is right and this is wrong and this is appropriate and this is inappropriate that is not for anybody except for Allah a scholars position in Islam is merely to carry on the legacy of the Prophet SAW alone yourself that's it right to carry on the legacy to propagate the legacy to teach the legacy right to the best of his ability or her ability today we want to speak about a set a set which is often translated to magic however it has a much more broad meaning in the religion of Islam and the in the legislation of Islam while sif magic is that's its translation it it entails and incorporates many other things into it right that traditionally we may not consider to be a type of magic in our minds but the principle of Islam is that no two things which are similar are separated in a laws judgment and no two things which are different dissimilar are joined together in a laws judgment so kind of with that so when we see that these things fall into the generality of magic we see that these things either are derived for a magic derived from the worship of other than a law or these things have a portion of that type of belief that go along with it magic in its essential form which it is mentioned in the Quran throughout the Quran what is meant by magic is a very tight a very specific type of magic and that is that an individual do things for different Shelton what we call in English demons the Sheltie and the bad of the jinn that a person does things to appease them in way of worship in order that they may help this person to perform things and feats which seem to be mysterious and unbelievable this is what is meant by magic so when Allah Subhanahu WA Ta'ala says in Surat al-baqarah in the sixteenth page he mentions soup Anna without inverse of 102 that this magic is a type of Kufa it is a type of disbelief right it is a type of disbelief what it what a loss of Panama tada is speaking about is a very specific type of magic and he mentions it even the the origin of this type of magic and he mentions the city of Babylon in this verse and that is worship of celestial bodies worship of nature worship of idols worship of different demons right or different Jim in order to gain some kind of spiritual edge or in order to gain the aid of these creatures this is cool right the scholars of Islam differ on whether merely learning it is this belief or its application only is disbelief right and the point here is that the Prophet SAW Allah Miley was seldom used to make dua and say Allah mania Ljubica metalman layin fat o Allah I seek refuge in you lest I learn any knowledge which has no which is of no consequence which is of no benefit right why is this the prophets all alone on you asylum seeking refuge in Allah from knowledge which has no benefit no benefit to your livelihood in this world no benefit to your salvation in the next world because the human being will act upon knowledge any knowledge that you gain will incorporate itself into your beliefs which will translate into speech and action right and decisions any knowledge that you have any knowledge that you incorporate into your heart so any knowledge that comes into your heart and you take it in and it is unbeneficial let alone if it is something negative or bad or terrible these things will translate into your actions and beliefs they will at least cloud your mind from seeing the truth as true and seeing false or this false right what is meant by unbeneficial knowledge knowledge of things that have no consequence in this life where they Hereafter right what is meant by negative knowledge knowledge of that which is prohibited in Islam right knowledge of bartending for example knowledge of how to make wine how to make alcohol knowledge of drugs how to cook correct any any of these things which are prohibited in Islam right this type of knowledge is prohibited to learn unless there is some necessary purpose for it which applies to less than 1% of the Muslim world right so for example for a Muslim scholar to learn about a particular thing in order to pass a ruling on it or in order to decipher what is correct or incorrect or in order to they must learn about it to an extent that is different right this is knowledge that becomes consequential not in itself but because of what it leads to or because of what is based upon that knowledge or knowing it the profits all alone he was seldom warned us from civet he warned us from magic and all of its types and we will speak about the types of said and show law and the very famous narration of Evy Loyola which is collected by both millennium with them that The Messenger of Allah Salih law and he was seldom said that any boo acetylene will be a clutch he said stay clear and refrain and stay far from the seven essentially seven deadly sins or seven most destructive sins they said o Messenger of Allah and what are they those seven sins now if you notice loss of panowitz our dimensions in sort of the ledger regarding the.

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In men whom Jews one mocks ooh he says so panel to Anna that the Hellfire has seven gates for each gate and allotted portion of people who are are appropriate for that gate and so we have here a correlation seven most deadly sins and these could be the overarching themes of each of those gates of the Hellfire or they could be others the the prophets all alone I knew a cinema was asked what are they and he said a who bila worship of other than Allah as said magic well cut to learn FZ Letty Haram.

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Allah bellhop and the murder spilling blood the murder of an individual without right to do so spilling of blood taking a life right he says well Arriba Ussery what is referred to as interest right to consume interest take interest welcome a Thalia team and taking unrightfully of the wealth of an orphan what doe a glioma Zeff and fleeing from battle welcome a son at a La Follette and want me net and wrongfully slandering and accusing of indecency those chaste believing women or not of that are not of that act of indecency and so we see that the second thing mentioned after a will be left after associating partners on to allah subhanahu wata'ala is a set magic right now what is what is the meaning of magic what is magic let's discuss because we said magic has a meaning in our minds and in our culture right but in the legislation of Islam it there is it is it is a kind of unwritten umbrella that incorporates many other acts beliefs and individuals right it's not just a person who casts a spell or a person that warships shall clean there are other types of people and types of things which fall into this general category we have a narration which was collected by Imam Ahmed even-handed Rahim a hello to Anna that the Prophet sallallahu aleyhi wa salem was narrated to have said on the authority of copiously will be a lot Lionel he said in Elia Fattah toca well clear autumn in Egypt II he said that these three things are a type of magic Zubat in the quran what's meant by gypped is magic right and why magic is referred to as gypped in the quran the scholars of islam have mentioned with regards to the linguistic etymology of this word and jibbety which is mentioned in sort of the micelle that al-jabat in the original in its original form or meaning refers to failure EG 'but really he who had fashioned that is failure right and so allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala describes magic with a word that is synonymous to sit but articulates an additional portion of meaning which is failure and that is as Allah subhana WA Ta'ala said well are you free Jose hello hi through Atta that the magician will never be successful no matter what route he takes right it will always fail because it is based on the worship of other than a loss of hand of what happened so a loss of the prophet sallallaahu I know you ascend them says that these three things are part of Egypt en el área fetta la boca what the errata mean LGBT right let's let's unpack that let's break that down in the Nava what is alpha and alpha is what we've spoken about before and that is a type of ominous thing it's it's a type of looking and searching for negative omens this is called an AFO right you feel so he is edge of a plate and we mentioned this that you know the Arabs had certain beliefs with regards to certain birds certain animals and their actions right certain animals and their actions so if they would see a particular type of bird they would take this to be ominous or take this to be a good omen right what book a thug is essentially drawing lines in the sand what does that mean they would have you for instance there are certain fortune tellers what we call fortune tellers psychics write that what they'll do is and info a scene where I'm from what they do is they have you drink a cup of coffee and then after you drink the cup of coffee they'll take the coffee and put out the grounds of the coffee onto a table or look at it or in your poem whatever it is right because every coffee has the grounds in it that settle at the bottom and then they will essentially look into that cup or look into that coffee you're looking to those grounds and claim to see your future see your vocation whatever it is right this is called a book we have other types of which is what we we call an America palm reading they'll look at your poem and they'll say this is the low sign and this is the diss and this is that right what is the connection to the folds of skin in my palm to my my direction in life there is no connection this is merely a genetic thing and depending on what kind of work I do that's it right so these are types of a book in the time of the Prophet SAW alone I need to settle them they would draw things in the sand and look at them right we have other things that we do there are certain types of there are certain types of soothsayers fortune-teller psychics in the Western world where they will actually give a person an enema and then look into you know the whatever has come out very disgusting but this is something that is done right anything of this sort is a type of is a type of bug right and this is prohibited in Islam it is a type of set it is a type of magic it falls into the general inclusivity the general umbrella of magic according to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet SAW Allah why they it was said them and according to that definition there's other things that are done that followed the same path people will you know there is something that is kind of controversial for example look at a particular what we call tarot cards right tarot cards is kind of cards with you know the tower and the steeple and all these different things and you draw cards and there's a way to do it and then they can foresee your omens in New York or in your future with this thing right tarot cards this is can be considered the type of a type of bulk this can also be considered a type of a type of selim selim right now sediment right for this we're talking about Zelan as elem or an islam in the time of the prophet sallallahu wasallam is a type of superstition that they used to try to make a decision we have its equivalent in in America which we'll discuss and that is that as Lomb would be basically three sticks or three arrows one of the arrows has yes one of the arrows has no one of the arrows says you know draw again or one of the arrows says do it the other says don't do it the other says the third says drug in and they'll put these into a bag right and then you draw one and you draw one with a particular thing in mind should I marry this person should I go on this journey should I go to this battle whatever it is a decision that you are trying to make and you draw this and you will then predict this we have something similar to this the magic a ball which is sold as a novelty item right I'm not sure how prevalent it is now but in the 90s when I was a kid it was you know all over the place it's a novelty item it's an eight ball the pool you play pool the eight ball and then it's got a little window liquid and and you shake it up and ask a question and an answer floats to the top right this is what is referred to as SLM in the little pond right and allah subhanho wa tada mentions that an Islam is a filth a stain essentially on the hearts of humanity it is a filth from the handiwork of a shave bun and we are commanded to abstain from it and it is incorporated along with slaughtering for idols gambling alcohol etc it is mentioned alongside these these terrible things this is called a less lemon right the tarot cards fall into that let's say a person says okay should I do this or should not and then you you know take up a let's say a paper make a paper ball and shoot it into a wastebasket and if if it if it gets in the basket it's yes and if it misses the basket it's no this is a type of ship right this is a type of as LEM and the legislation of a loss of hanim without is prohibited now again back to our principle that Allah mentions to us and that is just because people don't make a big deal out of it or just because magic 8-ball is found in the toy aisle as opposed to you know in the toy aisle at Walmart as opposed to some more serious place just because it is a novelty thing or just because it is widespread doesn't mean that it is a light to matter it doesn't mean that it is of little consequence it can be very serious then loss of kind of it's out I said what I said when at will hey you know what we are in the law I mean you all may consider this you all consider this to be lights matter something of little significance yet with a law it is of extreme gravity right so these these things are a type of a type of talk right other types of thought would be astrology which will speak about next week in shell law the horoscopes another type of the generality of a thought of would be something that is kind of funny and kind of quirky and people are going to but for example Chinese fortune cookies right for you to open the fortune cookie into looking you know and it's always very vague and if you actually look to where people get these get these statements that are in the fortune cookie you will be in home it's it's very funny for example most fortune cookies in America or a huge portion of fortune cookie are made in a factory in Brooklyn New York how do they come up with what to put in these fortune cookies well they have a a group of you know a a panel and they will all propose certain statements to put in the fortune cookie and there will vote on whether this is good or not and you you have to understand it's always very vague very general you know you will meet someone who will be of great consequence to you today or will help you very much that could be anybody it could be the bus driver right it is general enough to apply be applied applicable to everyone and a lot of people and this very materialist society will always kind of excuse themselves publicly and say oh it's just fun alright but if this was just fun it wouldn't be taken so seriously there are many other things which people do which are supposed to be of good omen or bad omen something the wishbone and Turkey you know in turkey dinners there's this bone that's called the wishbone and allegedly you hold one side and the other holds another side and and you guys separated and break it and whoever gets the bigger portion makes a wish that will come true this is all the type of and there's another thing where people take a straw wrapper and make a knot and then pull it apart if it comes to the right it's yes and if it comes to the left it's no right or or it's good or somebody is speaking well about you or whatever it is this is all the type of bubble type of sick a type of 10 gene which we will get into more detail about in the coming lecture in Chihuahua Tejada the profits all alone on you asylum mentions the third and final thing which is a Lyra a theatre are the omens which we've been discussing and we had an entire lecture about the week before right he says that in Java which is regards to birds and so forth what bulk which are the lines and the sand that the arabs used to draw what Liara which are the op ominous you know taking bad omens this is all minute of Jupiter this is all considered part of a divot which is superstition and this is all part of linguistically all part of failure right a loss of Hana what's a dimensions that won this praise of a certain people is you'll be known a village ibbity Love Boat that they believe in energy beauty so mere belief in these things is sufficient to stain an individual's heart and to tarnish a person's Islam and to invalidate a portion of an individual's aslim let alone to actually do these things we will conclude there and we will continue next week in sha.

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Sallim ala nabina muhammad by the early he was happy.