Suhaib Webb – Voting Haram

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.