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ehaviours, words and writings by giving false witness, unjust
judgments, or by way of lies, slander, and derision. Instead,
they must be treated severely. We should mildly advise the
sinners who, though having îmân, do not worship, and who
commit the harâm, such as charging and paying interest,
drinking alcoholic drinks, and gambling, but who do not hurt the
Muslims. However, if they do not come to reason, we should
not greet them or talk to them, but when they are sick we
should visit them and return their greetings. [Those disbelievers
who do not attack Muslims with their words, articles, or brute
force must be addressed with kind words and smiling faces. We
should not harm anybody.]
20 – Disbelievers have adopted various methods against
Islam and parted into branches; yet they are summed up in two
groups. Those in the first group do their worldly affairs and their
worships and do not attack Muslims. Realizing their inferiority
against Islâm’s strength and greatness, they have accepted to
give the jizya, thus accepting asylum in Islâm’s domination and
justice. These disbelievers are called Ahl-i zimmat or Zimmî. It
is necessary to dislike disbelievers of this kind and to view them
as enemies; yet it is harâm to torment them and to hurt their
hearts. It is written in the ‘Siyar’ section of Fatâwa-i-Khariyya,
“Something which is forbidden for Muslims is forbidden for the
zimmîs, too. Fornication, eating in public during Ramadan,
violating the fast publicly, dancing, music, interest (a
percentage of a sum of money loaned to someone or borrowed
from someone), going out uncovered are forbidden for them,
too. Only alcoholic drinks and pork are not forbidden to them. It
is permitted to visit them when they are sick or at other times
and to travel together with them.” It is written in the subject on
‘ta’zîr’ [1] in Multaqâ and Durr-ul-Mukhtâr and in other fiqh [2]
books, “A Muslim who utters a bad word to disbelievers, such
as, “You are an adulterer” or who hurts their hearts by saying
‘disbeliever’ or who backbites them will be called to ta’zîr, that
is, he will be thrashed with a stick, for it is a sin to hurt them.
[1] General name for various types of punishment which the Islâmic religion
inflicts for some crimes. The punishments of ta’zîr is explained in detail
in a different chapter in the third fascicle of our book.
[2] A branch of Islâmic knowledge that includes actions commanded,
actions prohibited and actions neither commanded nor prohibited.
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