Is Establishing the Proof Required for Clear Outward Acts of Shirk and Kufr? | Shykh Salih Al-Fawzan

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📢 In this video, Shaykh Salih Al-Fawzan clarifies a common misconception that many people especially the Murjiah use to confuse others and spread their deviant and false aqeedah. - They fail to differentiate between the outward rulings and the inward rulings, and because of this, they misguide the people regarding takfir and the ruling of a person being a mushrik. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📘 The outward ruling is based solely on statements and actions that appear publicly. This ruling is for everyone—both the layperson and the scholar—to judge by. ✍️ Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 852H) in Fath al-Bari (12/272) transmitted consensus: وكلهم أجمعوا على أن أحكام الدنيا على الظاهر، والله يتولى السرائر “THEY ALL UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that worldly rulings are based upon what is outwardly apparent, while Allah alone takes charge of what lies within." ✍️ Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728H) said in As-Sārim al-Maslūl (2/339): “Whoever says or does that which is kufr, then he becomes a kafir by that itself, even if he did not intend to become a disbeliever, for no one intends kufr except whom Allah wills.” When outward shirk is committed, the outward ruling is passed accordingly. Hudood punishments and hellfire, however, are not applied based on this outward ruling alone. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🫀 The inward ruling, on the other hand, relates to the state of the heart and the reality of a person’s iman. This is where judicial processes and hudood are applied, because it requires investigation, establishing the hujjah, and certainty about the person’s intention. Generally, we withhold from speaking about the inward reality of someone's iman unless he openly exposes it himself. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ The Murjiah make the disastrous mistake of mixing the inward ruling with the outward ruling. Because of this, they falsely claim that a person is not ruled as a kafir or mushrik based on clear outward acts of shirk and kufr. Their confusion leads them to deny the clear, straightforward outward rulings of shirk and kufr and lable them falsely as Muslim. ⚠️ This is extreme Irja, because they claim that the outward rulings are not applied unless the person is first informed, and then persists which is Juhood (denial). Those who restrict kufr only to Juhood are the extremists of the Murjiah. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Official Source (Arabic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpPC5v2k6z0 السؤال: هناك من يقول: بأن من يسجد لغير الله لا يُحكم بكفره حتى تُقام عليه الحجة؟ الجواب: يا أخي نحن نحكم على الظواهر أما البواطن لا يعلمها إلا الله، فمن سجد لغير الله حكمنا عليه بالشرك والكفر، ما لنا إلا الظاهر، أما كونه ما نوى أو له نيتان، فهذا ما نعلمه، هذا حكمه إلى الله، والله ما أمرنا أن نحكم على ما في القلوب، أمرنا أن نحكم على الأمور الظاهرة الألفاظ الأفعال التصرفات الظاهرة نحكم عليها. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #islam #muslim #islamic #sunnah #hadiths #quranrecitation #allah #dua #islamicreminders #islamicknowledge #islamicteachings #learnislam #islamiccontent #islamiclifestyle #halalliving #faithinallah #quranverses #islamicmotivation #islamicvideos #tawhid #aqidah #shirk #kufr #takfir #salihalfawzan #creed #islamiccreed #majorShirk #islamicbeliefs #rulingbytheoutward #murjiah #aqeedah