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Need Relief From Confusing For Calling One Kafir It's Application & Limitation
Student of knoweldge or and scholar present on this site please help in answering these in context of question asked. Please keep it short, need help in clearing major confusion:
1) Has the person become a Kaffir if he intentionally say a kufr statement or does an act of kufr or shirk without believin in those act as truth or right in islam?
2) if person A says a statement or does act of kufr in context that was not intended nor in intention of affirmation of such beliefs as truth but there’s a chance the person B present near them might take it as their affirmation will the person A become kaffir because of peroson B onesided judgement?
3) (This is a sub part of 2) if person B get unintentionally misguided due to their interpetation is Person A to blame? Will that blame take person A out of islam or will he be less than that sinful?
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Need Relief From Confusing For Calling One Kafir It's Application & Limitation
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In Islamic theology and jurisprudence, declaring someone a disbeliever is considered a very serious matter, therefore scholars emphasize extreme caution in this issue. In principle, if a person says a statement or performs an act that outwardly appears to be disbelief or shirk, a ruling of disbelief is not immediately passed based only on the apparent words or actions. Along with that, the person’s intention, understanding, and the context are also considered, and it is examined whether the person actually believed that statement to be true in Islam or not. According to many scholars, if a person does not believe such a statement to be true in his heart and did not intend to adopt a belief of disbelief, then he is not immediately declared a disbeliever. Rather, it may be regarded as a mistake, a slip, or a sin, and he is given the opportunity to clarify his statement or repent.If a person says something that may outwardly appear to be a statement of disbelief, but he did not intend to affirm such a belief, and another person present interprets it in that way, then the first person does not become a disbeliever merely because of the second person’s one-sided assumption or judgment. In Islam, the principle regarding declaring someone a disbeliever is that without clear intention, knowledge, and persistence upon disbelief, a Muslim should not be hastily labeled as a disbeliever. Therefore, someone’s misunderstanding alone does not make the speaker a disbeliever.Likewise, if a person hears a statement and misinterprets it and becomes misguided because of his own interpretation, the responsibility is judged according to the intention of the one who spoke. If the speaker did not intend to misguide anyone and did not consciously promote disbelief, then he is not considered to have left Islam. However, if someone carelessly says things that may become a cause of confusion or misguidance for others, this may be morally or religiously blameworthy and he should exercise caution, but it does not necessarily make him a disbeliever.
Based on this principle, we regard every person as a Muslim who identifies himself as a Muslim, regardless of what his beliefs or actions may be, unless he himself clearly denies Islam or there is a decisive and clear basis to rule otherwise.
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It helped, Thank you for replying and tackling my every point.
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Kufr means deliberately denying something. Unintentional statements are not effective. What other thinks of someone does not affect a person’s status of faith.
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is this deliberately denial the word spoken as mere lip service with no conviction or does the denial has to come from ones actual belief in the heart eligned with ones word spoken?
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Denial has to come from one’s actual belief in the heart, aligned with one’s word spoken.
Why should one utter the word of kufr without intention, except one has some psychological problem?
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Thank you for reply.
p.s about the question at the end by you, The question purpose wasn’t around the context of ‘why would anyone say this’ it was to check if it does happen it; to see the clear line and to maybe give reassurance + to avoid panic and confusion to the person who might now be thinking ‘has he commiting kufr, should he renew his shahadah’ and to avoid fueling his ocd or waswasa and such.
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