Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Habeshi 
First, we need to know what the Shahada means, most people say it means 'There is no God but Allah...' but this is the translation not the MEANING.
The first part;
There is noone who has the right to be worshiped except Allah, and whatsoever is worshiped besides Allah then it is done so with falsehood.
Proof is 22:62 and 47:19
The second is;
There is noone rightfully worthy of being followed except the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and if anyone other than the messenger of Allah is followed in that which he has no evidence for, then verily this following is done so with falsehood.
Proof is 7:3, 4:65 and 33:36.
So someone should not contradict those if they are muslim.
Coming to whether you can call someone a kafir if they contradict the Qu'ran and Sunnah.
First we should know that there is a Minimum level of obligatory knowledge for everyone, this may vary from person to person, a person who is 7 or over it is obligatory for him to know the rulings on Prayer, since he has to pray and so on.
You might come to a person and say to him, 'You have to believe in the Torah' and he might say 'No thats for the Jews' now, would that be kufr? That depends on the person's knowledge, you see, if you show him the ayah, that he has to believe in the Messengers and Books and then you show him that Moses was a messenger and so forth, and someone explains this to him, then HE HAS TO BELIEVE IT, if he does not then that is kufr, but if he did not know, maybe he had not read that part of the Qu'ran, and he denies it BECAUSE he has not seen proof, then that is not kufr IN SOME MATTERS, there are matters which IGNORANCE IS NOT AN ESCUSE.
So the proof must be established and shown to the person first.
Also if you go past a place and you see someone making sujud to another person or at a grave, does this mean the person has commited kufr, well again maybe the person did not know the place was a grave yard, so I mean we should be careful on these matters.
And Allah knows best.
|
Jazak Allah for your long response AKhi, And I agree with you
and I refrain from calling such people kaffirs as I have previously mentioned. In cases where they are ignorant, Allahuallom.
But what if that person knows what is said in the Qur'an, believes in the Qur'an but also gives the same priority to other books other then the Quran? what if the person knows what the Qur'an says, but believes in stuff which contradicts what they learn in the Qur'an and Sunnah? Do we say they are sinning, or do people have the right to call them Disbelievers?