Did the Prophet saws help a disbeliever?
Mu' meneen Brothers
and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa
Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be
upon all of you)
One of our
brothers/sisters has asked this question:
Assalamualikum,
there was a question asked,
Can we help a person who hate muslims because of religion / or
many are terrorist is it allowed or prohibited ?
Your answer was that one should not help or be friends with
those who hate Muslims, because it is written so in Quran.
One should not make friends with such people or help them in any
way which would harm Muslims or Islam but, I once read a hadith in which it was
written that, a woman used to throw garbage at Prophet Mohammad, but one day
she did not and prohpt came to know that she was sick, he went to meet her and
helped her in her illness.
So one may help a person in such way? please clarify.
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Answer:
Did the Prophet saws
help a disbeliever?
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is no one (no idol, no
person, no grave, no prophet, no imam,
no dai, nobody!) worthy of
worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His
slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 60 Surah Mumtahina verses 1:
O ye
who believe! Take not My enemies
and yours as friends (or protectors) offering them (your) love, even though they have rejected the Truth
that has come to you and have (on the contrary) driven out the Prophet and
yourselves (from your homes) (simply) because ye believe in Allah your
Lord! If ye have come out to strive in
My Way and to seek My Good Pleasure (take them not as friends), holding secret converse of love (and
friendship) with them: for I know full
well all that ye conceal and all that ye reveal. And any of you that does this has strayed from the Straight Path.
Allah Subhanah forbids the
believers to befriend those enemies amongst the disbelievers who fight the
believers because of their faith, or
help them in any way or cause that would hurt the cause of the muslims.
But if a disbeliever, even if an
enemy of Islam, happens to be your
neighbour or is known to the believer,
and this enemy is sick, or is in
distress, or needs immediate help,
etc.; there is absolutely no harm in
helping such a person, even if he is an
enemy of the believers and Islam.
Maybe by the believer showing such high character for the betterment and
good conduct of the disbeliever, the enemy might rethink his position of
animosity towards the believers and their faith, and come closer to Islam.
Intimate friendship and sincere
love with a disbelieving enemy of the believers and Islam is different from
helping, and being kind and just with
an individual disbeliever!
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allahs Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He
is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in
Islam,
Burhan
Wister