Guide-to-Sound-Creed-A-Book-on-Muslim-Creed-and-Faith

334 <strong>Guide</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Sound</strong> <strong>Creed</strong>
The third category includes those who should be liked and disliked.
They are the disobedient and sinners among the Muslims. We should
love them for the faith they retain and detest them for the sins they
perpetrate.
True love for Muslims classified under this category necessitates being
sincere and faithful <strong>to</strong> them and warning them against all sins. We
should also enjoin them <strong>to</strong> do good and forbid them from perpetrating
evil. They, moreover, should be penalized and punished for the sins
they commit, so that they may be deterred from committing sins and
repent them. Such erring Muslims should not be extremely detested
as wrongly argued by the Kharijites (the Seceders) who deem a
Muslim committing a major sin as a disbeliever. They should not
be sincerely loved and supported as deemed by the Murji'ah 5 • They
must be treated moderately according <strong>to</strong> the belief of the Adherents
ofthe Sunnah and Muslim Community. Love and hatred for the sake
of Allah are among the major principles of the Muslim faith. A man
will be resurrected on the Day of Resurrection with those whom he
loves as stated in a b.adith.
Nowadays, people only love and detest according <strong>to</strong> the worldly gains they
may attain. Those who are in possession of worldly vanities are always loved
and respected by others though they may be enemies of Allah, His Messenger
(PBUH) and Islam. People, moreover, show enmity <strong>to</strong> those who are not in
possession ofsuch a worldly gain, even ifthey may be the allies ofAllah and His
Messenger (PBUH).
'AbdullMl Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) said:
"Whoever likes and dislikes for Allah's sake, befriends and detests
for 'His cause will obtain the Walayah (the support) of Allah
by this. Although brotherhood is now only held for attaining a
worldly vanity, the friends ofAllah are not much concerned with
such vanities."
(Related by Ibn Jarir)
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that Allah's
Messenger (PBUH) said:
"Allah said, '/ will declare war against him who shows hostility <strong>to</strong>
a pious servant ofMine...' "
(Related by Al-Bukhari)