{"id":7171,"date":"2020-06-11T19:33:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/?p=7171"},"modified":"2020-06-28T21:03:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T02:03:26","slug":"the-difference-between-a-mushrik-and-a-kaafir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/the-difference-between-a-mushrik-and-a-kaafir\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between a mushrik and a kaafir"},"content":{"rendered":"

source: silsilat ul-hud\u0101 wa nn\u016br ~ the series of guidance and light ~ tape no. 727<\/em><\/p>\n

Question #7: \u201cIs every mushrik (one who associates partners with All\u0101h) a k\u0101fir (disbeliever), but not every k\u0101fir is a mushrik? Or are they the same?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shaykh al-Alb\u0101ni answers:<\/strong>
\n\u201cThis is the established understanding in people\u2019s minds, except few of them. I will explain that with an example: a man bears witness that none has the right to be worshiped but All\u0101h and that Muhammad (\u0635\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648\u0633\u0644\u0645) is the Messenger of All\u0101h, and he prays, fasts and so on, but he rejects an \u0101yah from the Qur\u2019\u0101n. This (man) has disbelieved or not disbelieved? He has disbelieved. Has he associated partners with All\u0101h? That which is correct is that he has associated partners with All\u0101h. Every k\u0101fir is a mushrik and every mushrik is a k\u0101fir; there is absolutely no difference between the two words\u2026<\/p>\n

Whoever disbelieves has associated partners with All\u0101h, and whoever associates partners with All\u0101h has disbelieved; there is no confusion about that. The evidence for this is if we remember the conversation of the believer and the disbeliever in S\u016brat ul-Kahf: {And put forward to them the example of two men: unto one of them We had given two gardens of grapes, and We had surrounded both with date-palms; and had put between them green crops (cultivated fields) \/ Each of those two gardens brought forth its produce, and failed not in the least therein, and We caused a river to gush forth in the midst of them \/ And he had property (or fruit) and he said to his companion, in the course of mutual talk: \u2018I am more than you in wealth and stronger in respect of men\u2019}<\/p>\n

[1] \u2013 pay attention now \u2013 {And he went into his garden while in a state (of pride and disbelief) unjust to himself. He said: \u2018I think not that this will ever perish \/ And I think not the Hour will ever come-}.<\/p>\n

[2] According to your wrong understanding, this (man) has disbelieved but not associated partners with All\u0101h and he (only) denied the Resurrection. He (then) said: {-and if indeed I am brought back to my Lord, (on the Day of Resurrection), I surely shall find better than this when I return to Him\u2019 \/ His companion said to him during the talk with him:-}<\/p>\n

[3] {-\u2018If you see me less than you in wealth, and children, \/ It may be that my Lord will give me something better than your garden, and will send on it Husb\u0101n (torment, bolt) from the sky, then it will be a barren slippery earth \/ Or the water thereof (of the gardens) becomes deep-sunken (underground) so that you will never be able to seek it\u2019 \/ So his fruits were encircled (with ruin). And he remained clapping his hands (with sorrow) over what he had spent upon it, while it was all destroyed on its trellises, and he could only say: \u2018Would that I had ascribed no partners to my Lord!\u2019}<\/p>\n

[4] Therefore, when he denied the Resurrection, he associated partners with All\u0101h. So whoever disbelieves in something that has come in the Book (Qur\u2019\u0101n) or the Sunnah, then he is (also) a mushrik during his state of disbelief; this is with respect to the Qur\u2019\u0101nic text. So what is the intellectual reason (for this)? The answer is that (All\u0101h), the Most High, said: {Have you seen him who takes his own lust (vain desires) as his il\u0101h (god)?} Therefore, whoever disbelieves with any type of disbelief is (also) a mushrik, because he himself made his logic to be a partner with His Lord, the Blessed and Most High. Thus, do not differentiate between kufr (disbelief) and shirk (associating partners with All\u0101h)\u2026
\nLikewise, another had\u012bth (mentions): \u2018Whoever swears by other than All\u0101h has disbelieved\u2019 and \u2018whoever swears by other than All\u0101h has associated partners with All\u0101h.\u2019<\/p>\n

[5] He has committed kufr, he has committed shirk. He has committed shirk, he has committed kufr. There is no difference between the two words with regard to terminology in the Islamic legislation. With regard to linguistic terminology, there is a difference no doubt, but the Islamic legislation opens our insight, thinking and understanding. Why is everyone who disbelieves in All\u0101h, the Might and Majestic, with any type of disbelief (also) a mushrik? Because he has made his logic to be a partner with His Lord, the Mighty and Majestic.\u201d<\/p>\n

~ asaheeha translations ~
\n[1] S\u016brat ul-Kahf, 18:32-34
\n[2] S\u016brat ul-Kahf, 18:35-36
\n[3] S\u016brat ul-Kahf, 18:36-37
\n[4] S\u016brat ul-Kahf, 18:39-42
\n[5] Sah\u012bh at-Tirmith\u012b #1535<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

source: silsilat ul-hud\u0101 wa nn\u016br ~ the series of guidance and light ~ tape no. 727 Question #7: \u201cIs every mushrik (one who associates partners with All\u0101h) a k\u0101fir (disbeliever), but not every k\u0101fir is a mushrik? Or are they the same?\u201d Shaykh al-Alb\u0101ni answers: \u201cThis is the established understanding in people\u2019s minds, except few … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctrine-and-sects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"gform-image-choice-sm":false,"gform-image-choice-md":false,"gform-image-choice-lg":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Site Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ask-a-muslim.com\/en\/author\/admin2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":10,"uagb_excerpt":"source: silsilat ul-hud\u0101 wa nn\u016br ~ the series of guidance and light ~ tape no. 727 Question #7: \u201cIs every mushrik (one who associates partners with All\u0101h) a k\u0101fir (disbeliever), but not every k\u0101fir is a mushrik? 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