The Ruling on Khamenei, the Iranian Government, and Its Leadership | Imam Ibn Baz

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📌 The Ruling on the Leaders of Iran | Fatwa of Imam Ibn Baz 📢 In this decisive clarification, Imam ʿAbd al ʿAziz ibn Baz exposed the reality of the rulers of Iran and their kufri aqidah. - He affirmed that their leadership are Kuffar Mushrikin who call to the worship of other than Allah alone. ⚠️ They spread the deviant creed of the Rafidah, revile and curse the Companions, and exaggerate regarding ʿAli and Ahl al Bayt in a manner that contradicts Tawhid and the Sunnah. The Shaykh made it clear that they promote kufri believes such as the claim of infallibility, claim knowledge of the unseen, and openly call people to worship other than Allah. - They direct the masses to call upon their imams besides Allah, seek help from them, make vows to them, and commit clear acts of major shirk. This is not a minor deviation but open opposition to the foundation of Islam and the message of all the Prophets. 📖 This video refutes these falsehoods and clarifies the obligation of holding firmly to pure Tawhid and the manhaj of Ahl al Sunnah. It exposes the danger of irja and the attempts to excuse or defend manifest shirk, and it explains the principle of judging by what is apparent from statements and actions according to the Quran and the Sunnah. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✍ The Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Fatwas in Saudi Arabia. Fatwah no. 4400: 👉 (❗) "So clarifying the matter and establishing the proof (Iqāmat al-hujjah) is for the purpose of removing any excuse before carrying out the PUNISHMENT upon him, NOT in order for him to be called a disbeliever only after the clarification. Rather, he IS CALLED a disbeliever based on the outward act he committed. such as prostrating to other than Allah, vowing as an act of worship to other than Him, or slaughtering an animal, like a sheep, for other than Allah...” End Quote 📚 Source: Kitāb Fatāwā al-Lajnah al-Dāʾimah – First Collection, vol. 1, p. 220 https://shamela.ws/book/8381/396#p1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ The Murjiah confuse the outward ruling with the inward ruling. - The outward ruling is the worldly judgment based solely on a person’s outward statements and actions. It does not depend on what is in the heart. - The inward ruling concerns the hidden reality of the heart, which cannot be known. It is only considered in matters of punishment and the ruling of the Hereafter. Ignorance, coercion, mistake, and denial are considered here, not in the outward ruling. ✅ The methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaah: The outward ruling is based exclusively on statements and actions. Matters of the heart are only considered in punishment and the final judgment, in this world by the judge and in the Hereafter by Allah. ✍️ Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 852H) in Fath al-Bari (12/272), transmitting 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.” End Quote ✍️ Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728H) said in As-Sarim al-Maslul (2/339): فمن قال أو فعل ما هو كفر, كفر بذلك، وإن لم يقصد أن يكون كافرًا، إذ لا بقصد الكفر أحدّ إلًّا ما شاء الله. “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.” End Quote ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Official Fatwa (Arabic) https://binbaz.org.sa/fatwas/4834/%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85-%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B9%D8%A9 وحُكَّام إيران اليوم من أضلّ الناس وأكفرهم، وإن تظاهروا بالإسلام -نعوذ بالله-؛ لأنهم دعاة للشرك، دعاة لعبادة غير الله، دعاة للرفض، دعاة لسبِّ الصحابة، ولعن الصحابة، والغلو في عليٍّ وأهل البيت، وأنهم معصومون يعلمون الغيب، وأنهم يُعْبَدون ويُدْعَون من دون الله: يُستغاث بهم، ويُنذر لهم، إلى غير ذلك -نسأل الله العافية. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to