:bism: (In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful)
:sl: (Peace be upon you)
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Reminder
There are countless Ayat and Ahadeeth that tell us
never trust the kuffar,
never take them as leaders or allies, they are the losers, they cannot help us, only Allah can.
This is simultaneously both false and true and therefore requires contextualizing. As you know, Muslim men are allowed to marry non-Muslim women, and that means that relationship necessarily hinges on trust and confidence; so, this is one specific example wherein a Muslim would be allowed to trust another non-Muslim because the nature of the relationship requires it. Also, if you've any knowledge of the
Seerah of Prophet :saws:, you should know that Abyssinia at that time was ruled by a Christian king famous for his mercy and equity, King Negus, and Prophet Muhammad :saws: advised Muslims who were being persecuted to seek shelter in Abyssinia vouching for the trustworthiness and justice and mercy of the king. So, non-Muslims can be trusted in limited contexts when we have specific information about a person's general trustworthiness and equity specific to people irrespective of faith. Also, Muslims are allowed to have friends from non-Muslims if those non-Muslims can be positively influenced by the Islam of the Muslims. However, there are also limitations; Muslims are not allowed to befriend non-Muslims if those non-Muslims are better able to influence us than we are them. Muslims are generally to understand that a non-Muslim person's trustworthiness depends on knowing things like that person's character and reputation for trustworthiness; and absent both knowing character and reputation for trustworthiness, Muslims are not to trust non-Muslims in dealings and that includes nations and specific persons. Also, we have numerous
ahadith (prophetic traditions) about being good to the neighbor and the rights of the neighbor and that includes non-Muslims irrespective of whether they are hostile to Muslims or Islam because our goodness is not hostage to their behavior but our goodness is independent of anyone and based on Islam and Allah's injunctions.
This is not my personal view, for the last time. How can someone pluck out a verse from the Qur'an in defense of Donald Trump yet ignore the countless other verses that state the relationship between the believers and the kuffar?
You are absolutely wrong: I'm not defending Donald Trump as I've stated numerous times that I did not want him to become president-elect of the United States. However, being a citizen of United States, I've been seeing what you're not seeing, which is a general atmosphere of despair and fear that I see Muslims feeling in U.S. right now; this fear, however, is not just limited to Muslims because blacks, Latinos, liberals are facing the same fear. So, my point to my Muslim brothers and sisters with whom I've been conversing off the and now on the Internet is to remind them that we do not know what is good for us and Allah does; and it may be that in this there is some hidden good of which we're unaware because we should trust Allah's Will and Wisdom.
Alhamdulilah, from learning the Qur'an and the Seerah of our beloved Prophet salaAllahu alayhi wa salam, we learn how to deal with the kuffar.
If you have not learned tolerance and respect from the
Seerah, then I have no qualms about saying that you do not know the
Seerah. The
Seerah has been divided into Meccan and Medinan understandings.
SubhanAllah, Muslims are attributing themselves to nations other than the Ummah, arguing in defense of leaders who are killing their brothers and sisters, and it is frightening to even be discussing this topic.
Muslims do not attribute themselves to other than the
ummah; however, I hope you also know that having a love for one's homeland is part of our
fitrah (natural disposition) as well. This has been typically understood to include one's homeland from Heavens but has also included attachment to one's homeland as long as the attachment is
not above one's allegiance to the
deen.
Finally, Donald Trump has as yet not killed any Muslims; and we should be hoping and praying that he doesn't.
And we should be praying as an
ummah for him as being the leader of U.S. to be upright and govern with justice and mercy for human beings and Muslims. In case now you want to know why we should be praying for him when he's a
kaffir, you should know Prophet :saws:
(peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Do not curse the governors but supplicate that they be upright. For their uprightness is best for you." It is for this reason that Al-Sakhawi said in al-Maqasid: "We have narrated from al-Fudayl [ibn `Iyad] that he said: 'If I had one supplication that is answered, I would consider the Sultan more deserving of it. For in his uprightness lies the uprightness of those who are governed by him, and in his corruption lies their corruption.'"
:wa: (And peace be upon you)