11-27-2003, 03:53 PM
Allah has blessed us with this Perfect Deen, al-Islam.
Oh Sister, you and me know very well to call a Kaffir a Muslim, is very evil aswell. Yes the Hadeeth you quoted is Saheeh, no one doubts this. Obvisouly its Haraam to label a Muslim as a Kaffir. The leaders of today are not Muslims, becuase of many reasons, one of these reasons is that they have replaced the Shariah with man made laws, etc.
Let me quote what the scholars have said regarding this issue.
Firstly we must let it be known that it is the Fatawa of Sheikh ul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, in volume 28: page 524 where he has written "And it is known of Islam by necessity and it is the consensus {Ijmaa3} of all the Muslims, that whosoever permits the following of a deen other than Islam or the following of a Shariah other than the Shariah of Muhammad (saws) then he is a KAFFIR, and his kufr is like the kufr of one who believes in a part of the Book and rejects faith in another part."
Sister, Allaah subhanahu wa ta'ala has said:
و من لم يحكم بما أنزل الله فأولئك هم الكافرون
And whosoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed, then they are the disbelievers"
Also add what Ibn Katheer said in his book al Bidaaya wan Nihaaya,
“Thus whoever left the wise Shari`a sent upon Muhammad ibn `Abdullah, the Seal of the Prophets and makes judgements to other than it from the abrogated shari`as has become a Kaffir. So how is it for the one who makes judgment to al Yaasiq and makes it superior over it {the Islamic Shari`a}? Whoever did that, then he has already become a Kaffir by consensus {Ijmaa3} of the Muslims.”