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 kafir (disbeliever),
or if he, saying “good” about one of the harams (prohibitions),
tries to make it popular so that everybody commits it, or if he says
that one of Allahu ta’ala’s commands is retrogressive and harmful,
he is called “kafir”. Even if he says that he is a Muslim,
performs namaz (ritual prayer) and goes on a hajj (pilgrimage), he is
still called a Zindiq. It would be stupidity to regard such
hypocritical people, who deceive Muslims, as Muslims.
Allahu ta’ala in the
twenty-eighth ayat [1] of Surat [2]-ut-Tawba
of the Qur’an al-karim says, “Najas and rijs,” that is,
“foul,” about disbelievers. Then, disbelief should be foul and
base in the eyes of Muslims. Allahu ta’ala declares in the
fourteenth ayat of Surat-ur Ra’d and in the fiftieth ayat of
surat-ul Mu’min, “The prayers of these enemies are without a
result. There is no possibility of them being accepted.”
Allahu ta’ala and His
Prophet are pleased with Muslims. There cannot be a greater blessing
than attaining Allah’s grace and love.
GLOSSARY:
[1] Ayat al-karima: a verse of al-Qur’an al-kerim.
[2] Sura(t): a Qur’anic chapter [a chapter of the Qur’an].
