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📌 In this clear and detailed fatwa, Shaykh Dr. Salih al-Fawzan refutes a common doubt spread by the contemporary extremist Murjiah to support their claim that the one who commits shirk remains a Muslim. 🔴 The Murjiah Claim: - They claim that Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah considered the one who commits shirk to remain a Muslim due to ignorance, whereas Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab declared such people to be kuffar. ⚠️ Their Conclusion: - Based on this alleged difference, they argue that the approach of Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab should be disregarded in favor of that of Ibn Taymiyyah. 🔍 The Reality: - This claim is false and a blatant misrepresentation of Ibn Taymiyyah’s position. - Both Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah distinguish between the outward application of legislated names and labels and the legislated rulings and punishments associated with them. An individual who outwardly commits actions or makes statements that nullify his testimony of faith is judged according to what is outwardly apparent as a mushrik and kafir. However, whether the corresponding legal punishments are applied to a particular individual requires consideration of the outward and the inward. We judge according to what is outwardly apparent, while the ultimate reality of a person’s inward state and his reward or punishment in the Hereafter is left to Allah. Such as for worldly legal punishments, their application belongs to the appropriate judicial authorities. 🟠 A Second Error: - Moreover, some of those who claim to be Salafis respond, not by defending Ibn Taymiyyah and refuting this false attribution to him, but by claiming that Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab also affirmed Islam for those who commit shirk and kufr! 🔄 The Result: - Thus, they effectively accept the Murjiah’s premise that Ibn Taymiyyah affirmed Islam and salvation for the doer of shirk, but attempt to resolve the alleged difference by claiming that Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab held the same position. ✅ Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan’s Response: - Shaykh al-Fawzan rejects this alleged distinction between the two Shaykhs and states plainly that Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, like Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, only outwardly declared to be kuffar those whom Allah declared to be kuffar and whose kufr is established by the Quran and Sunnah, such as those who nullify their testimony of faith through actions or statements of major shirk or kufr. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Video Source: الرد على زعم أن الشيخ ابن عبد الوهاب كان يكفر مخالفيه - صالح الفوزان https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mO3K_8SLlk References: 1️⃣ First Quote: Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah 📕 Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā, vol. 20, p. 24 🔗 https://shamela.ws/book/7289/9861 2️⃣ Second Quote: Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 📗 Kitab al Durar al Saniyyah fi al Ajwibah al Najdiyyah, vol. 1, p. 522 🔗 https://shamela.ws/book/3055/516 3️⃣ Third Quote: The Permanent Committee Ifta KSA 📘 Kitāb Fatāwā al-Lajnah al-Dāʾimah – First Collection, vol. 1, p. 220 🔗 https://shamela.ws/book/8381/396#p1 4️⃣ Fourth Quote: Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymeen 📙 Sharh al-Qawaʿid al-Muthla Lesson 12/13 (36:59–38:18) 🔗 https://www.alathar.net/home/esound/index.php?op=codevi&coid=129162 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ 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.” ✍️ 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 يقص
