Can We Pray Janazah Over Them? | Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan

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📌 In this video, Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan answers an important question relating to how to deal and interact with individuals who outwardly display shirk and kufr. Believing in and judging a person to be a believer or disbeliever refers back to what is outwardly apparent from the individual himself. 1️⃣. If he outwardly displays Islam and we do not know anything else but that from him, then we accept his claim to Islam and pray over him. 2️⃣. If he outwardly displays kufr, shirk, and abandonment of salah in addition to his claim to Islam, then we judge him accordingly and do not pray over him. ⚠️ The default is that he is a Muslim if even his state/condition is unknown, and then it is allowed to pray over him or behind him. But once his state/condition becomes known, then it becomes obligatory to accept the outward ruling upon him and refrain from praying behind him or upon him. 📚 Takfir is of two types: 1️⃣ Takfir al-Ismi: the outward ruling of names and labels. 2️⃣ Takfir al-Hukmi: the legislative penal rulings and punishments connected to those labels. ✅ The name and outward ruling are applied once the action or statement becomes clear. As for the legislative punishments, they are only carried out by the Islamic authority in this world or by Allah in the Hereafter. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✍ 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 kafir only after the clarification. 👉 (❗) Rather, he IS CALLED a kafir 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.” 📚 Source:Kitāb Fatāwā al-Lajnah al-Dāʾimah – First Collection, vol. 1, p. 220 https://shamela.ws/book/8381/396#p1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Islam #Quran #Sunnah #Aqeedah #Salafi #salafiyyah #Bidah #IslamicAdvice #IslamicReminders #SeekingKnowledge #Tawheed #Muslim #Fiqh #scholarsofsunnah #AhlusSunnah #IslamicClips #IslamicShorts #Creed #IslamicEducation #IslamicLecture #MuslimYouth #Knowledge #IslamicGuidance #Shariah #Reminder #ShirkAkbar #ExcuseOfIgnorance #Takfir #Iman #Kufr #SalafiDawah #AhlusSunnahWalJamaah #ManhajSalaf #IslamicCreed #UsulAlDeen #KitabAlTawhid #ScholarsOfIslam #IbnBaz #IbnUthaymeen #LajnahDaimah #Clarification #Refutation #SeekKnowledge #Ilm #Dawah #Truth #Guidance #SunnahWay #Hajj #DhulHijjah #EidAlAdha #DaysOfDhulHijjah #Pilgrimage #Udhiyah #Qurbani #Hajj2026 #IslamicReminder #LabbaikAllahummaLabbaik #Sacrifice #Sunnah #Tawhid #Arafah #DayOfArafah #Eid #MuslimPilgrimage #PropheticSunnah #IslamicKnowledge #Salafi Funeral prayer