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The concept of al-Walaa wal-Baraa or love and hate for the sake of Allaah.
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Bismillah Allah almighty said So know that L ilha illallaah, and ask forgiveness for your sin, and also for believing men and believing women..... (Quran 47:19). One of the nine conditions of Shahadah is knowledge. The principle of al Walaau al-baraa is underpinned in our Shahadah (rejection / disassociation of taghut ( ), polytheism - Shirk1 etc and affirming oneness of 2 Allah Tawheed ). Al-Walaa means loyalty, friendship, alliance3 and al-baraa means rejection, severance4. In Islam al-Walaa is loyalty to Allah and whatever He is pleased with as well as friendship and closeness to the believers, whereas al-baraa is rejecting from anything displeasing to Allah and disowning the disbelievers. Allah obligates us to love those who love Allah and His Messenger (s5) people of Tawheed6 and hate people of shirk7 - those who oppose Allah and His Messenger (s). The Islamic Belief System (Aqeedah) obligates every Muslim to love the people of Tawheed and hate the people of Shirk and fusook. Allah states: O you who believe! Do not take the Jews and Christians for friends. They are Awliyaa (friends) to each other. And the one among you that turns to them is one of them. Indeed, Allah guides not an unjust people. (5:51)

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Shaykh Saalih bin Fawzaan al Fawzaan Al-Walaa wal baraa, PDF- page 6 of 35 ibid 3 Page 11 of 129 Al-Wala Wal-Bara part 2 by Shaykh Muhammad Saeed al-Qahtani 4 Ibid (page 12 of 129)
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Allahs Peace and Blessing be upon His Messenger Muhammad (s) and upon his family, his Companions & believers.

Shaykh Saalih bin Fawzaan al Fawzaan Al-Walaa wal baraa, page 6 of 35) Tawheed: (a) Single out Allah as the only Lord, (b) Single out Allah as the only being worthy of worship and (c) single out Allah as the only One with Unique Names and attributes, not shared by the created beings. 7 (ibid) (a) Attribute qualities of Lordship to Allahs creatures, (b) to direct worship other than Allah alone, (c) to attribute Allahs perfect Names and Attributes to His creatures.

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The above verse forbids Muslims from taking any of the People of the Book, specifically, and any of the disbelievers as a Mawlaat (friend). Allah also forbade the believer from supporting the Kuffaar, even blood relatives. O you who believe! Do not take your fathers and your brothers as Awliyaa, if they love disbelief instead of faith. If any of you do so, they are wrongdoers. (9:23). "The believers are nothing else than brothers. So make reconciliation between your brothers, and fear Allah, that you may receive mercy." (49:10). Therefore, the principle of al Walaa wal baraa applies to all. This principle is contained in the verse: Muhammad is the Messenger of Allh, and those who are with him are severe against disbelievers, and merciful among themselves. ......... (48:29). The Prophet instructed Mu'aadh Ibn Jabal, before sending him to Yemen, to call the people to the worship of Allah alone, saying, "If they agree then instruct them in their obligations8. Umar (ra) asked Abu Moosa (ra) why he was employing a Christian and invoked verse 5:51 and why not employ a believer.9 The Prophet (s) said: Whoever imitates a people is one of them.10 Believers are not allowed to live in non Muslim land (except Dawah), follow the non-believers customs, cultures, festivals (worldly), dress etc which indicate disbelief, such as taking part in Christmas11, Easter12, Devali13 etc. The Magians14 (Zoroastrians) their own festivals, such as Mahrajaan, Nowruz15. The Baatinis16 festival Eid al-Ghadeer - they claim that the Prophet (s) gave the khilaafah to Ali (ra) and to the twelve imams after him.
Muslims have no festivals apart from Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adhaa. Allaah has given us these two festivals and we have no need of the kaafir festivals17.

Raafidis takfir against Abu Bakr (ra) and against other noble Companions (ra) of our beloved Prophet (s). Their actions must be hated by the believers. With regard to Abu Bakr (ra), Allah states: .. second of two, when they were in the cave, and he (s) said to his companion (Abu Bakr (ra): "Be not sad (or afraid), surely Allh is with us." Then Allh sent down His Saknah (tranquility) upon him, and strengthened him with forces (angels) , and Allh is All-Mighty, All-Wise. (Quran 9:40).
Kitab al Eemaan Saheeh Muslim, book 1, numbers 27 and 28 http://www.islambasics.com/index.php?act=download&BID=25 9 Shaykh Saalih bin Fawzaan al Fawzaan Al-Walaa wal baraa, PDF- page 12 of 35 10 Narrated by Abu Daawood, 3512; classed as Saheeh by al-Albany. 11 Annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ for Christians. 12 In Egypt, the ancient festival of Sham El Nessim for Coptic Christians and other Christians around the world - a day celebrating a symbol of spring and new life as Jesus' death brought new life to Christians. 13 Festival of lights celebrated in Hindu culture. 14 Referred to Quran, verse 22:17, but the condition is to follow the way of Prophet (s), as indicated in verse 2:62. 15 New Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz) Persian New Year. 16 Baatinis who changed the religion of Islam; they were outwardly Raafidis but inwardly they were heretics 17 Sunan Abi Daawood, 1134
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The statement Allah is with us destroys the Shiiah takfir of Abu Bakr (ra), as Prophet (s) would not have said with us if his companion was not a believer. Shiiah Hadith states: .Abu Abdallah (a.s.) said, O abu Muhammad, with us there is a secret of the secrets of Allah and knowledge of the knowledge of Allah.......18 The above contradicts Quran. Allah states: And with Him (with Allah) are the keys of the Ghayb (hidden), none knows them but Allah. ... (6:59) We recite Surah Faatihah, ask Allaah for guidance to the Straight Path of the believers and to keep him away from the path of those earned His anger and of those went astray, and then deliberately follows their path and imitates them? And Allah knows best. Total word counts: 999 (excluding spaces and footnotes)

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Shiiah Hadith book Al-Kaafi H , Ch. 102, h 5, page 571 of 763 PDF version.

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