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Praying for the Absolute Destruction of Non-Muslims – Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan

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Title Praying for the Absolute Destruction of Non-Muslims[1]

Original Title الفتاوى الشرعية في القضايا العصرية

Author Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān

Translated by Abu az-Zubayr Harrison (rahimahullaah)

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Question: Regarding going to extremes in supplication by praying for the absolute destruction of every non-Muslim and for them to be removed from existence, what has been legislated about this?

Answer: What is legislated in supplication is to pray against only the transgressors among the non-Muslims. This is because the prophet (صلّى الله عليه وسلّم), whenever he used to supplicate in prayer, he would specify only the transgressors among them. He would not pray against all of them inclusively. Instead, he would say, for example, “Oh Allah, condemn this person and that tribe.” He would not absolutely include every single person who disbelieves.[2]

Footnotes

[1] This Fatwá was taken from a book called “al-Fatāwá al-Shar’iyyah fī al-Qadhāyā al-‘Asriyyah,” a collection of various rulings by Muḥammad Ibn Fahd al-Ḥuṣayn.

[2] Taken from the magazine: al-Da’wah (no. 1869, the month of Ramadhaan 1423 Hijrah).

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