Suhaib Webb – Voting Haram
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So
look for the Swiss journal, my school's journal,
to come out this fall, and that's one
of the articles that will be in there
in detail by a great scholar from India.
But a simple answer is the following. The
prophet
said
that the prophets are brothers and their religion
is 1. What that means is that foundationally,
we believe that the prophets align whatever is
shirk in the time of Saydna
Musa is shirk in the time of Saydna
Muhammad and now.
So we see that prophet Yusuf, alaihi salatu
salam, he participated in a non Muslim state
under Firaoun. He was someone who worked within
the contours of that state. If it was
shirk, he would not have done it. So
that's an example of engaging and participating in
a non Muslim
political entity. The second the second evidence is
from Sahih al Bukhari where the prophet
gave money to the Quraysh to free Muslim
prisoners.
So here's an analogy,
what Al Baji says
that we can give, for example,
support, if you will, or donate in ways
that are going to preserve and protect the
rights of the Muslims,
even to the non Muslims. The third, why
is it impossible to make tak fear to
say someone's a kafir for this is because
I gave evidence from Quran, from sunnah, from
the Maqulat. So making takk fear of people,
that as as too much. The third is
the Maqas e Sharia evidence
that whatever allows us to protect ourselves as
a community and prevent us from harm
becomes crucial to our community to organize around
and support.