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their speeches and writings teeming with kufr. Praise or effort todisseminate or to advertise shows approval and love. Approvalof kufr causes kufr. Approval of kufr does not mean to want thekâfir to remain in kufr but to like his kufr.Question 3: “What does ‘ahl al-bid’a’ mean?”Answer 3: If the cause of an innovator’s dissent from Ahlas-Sunna is his belief in the superiority of ’Alî over Abû Bakrand ’Umar (radiy-Allâhu ’anhum), he is of ahl al-bid’a as it iswritten in Hulâsa, Hindiyya and many other invaluable books.A person who does not believe in the khilâfat (caliphate) of oneor both of the latter two Khalîfas was said to be a kâfir by the’ulamâ’ of fiqh and to be a man of bid’a by the ’ulamâ’ of kalâm.For the sake of precaution, the term ‘man of bid’a’ should beused for them. A person absolutely becomes a kâfir if he saysthat Allâhu ta’âlâ is a creature, or that the present Qur’ân alkerîmis deficient and contains alterations made by as-Sahâbatal-kirâm or (by others) later, or that ’Alî (radiy-Allâhu ’anh) orone of the Twelve Imâms is superior to prophets. It is written inHindiyya, Zahiriyya, al-Hadîqat an-nadiyya and in fiqh booksthat he will be treated as a murtadd. There is detailedinformation on this subject in the book Makâlat al-mufassira anahkâmi ’l-bid’ati ’l-mukaffira [1] .Question 4: “What would say about those who praise thepeople called ‘Bâtiniyya’ with the words the ‘stars of knowledge,’‘suns of ’ulamâ’,’ ‘great scholars of our time,’ or ‘guides of the[1]Ibn ’Âbidîn wrote on ‘unlawful nikâh in Radd al-muhtâr: “If oneworships ’Alî (radiy-Allâhu ’anh) or says, ‘Jabrâ’il was ordered toreveal the Qur’ân to ’Alî, but he made mistake and revealed it toMuhammad,’ or ‘Abû Bakr was not a Sahâbî,’ or ‘Hadrat ’Â’îshacommitted adultery,’ he becomes a kâfir. If he says that ’Alî (radiy-Allâhu ’anh) was superior to the two caliphs (Abû Bakr and ’Umar‘radiy-Allâhu ’anhum’), or curses or slanders a Sahâbî, he becomesa man of bid’a.” In the third volume, he wrote: “If one curses at ordamns the two caliphs, be becomes a kâfir. Though those peoplecaled Durzîs, Mulhids and Ismâ’îlîs practise the five fundamentalduties of Islam, they become kâfirs because of their belief intransmigration of the soul and by regarding wine and intercourse ashalâl and giving false meanings to âyats.” Ibn ’Abidîn, in his bookUqûd ad-durriyya, quoted Shaikh al-Islam ’Abdullah Effendi’sextensive fatwâ about the Shî’ites and names the groups that fellinto kufr among them.- 269 -