Ten Things Which Nullify Ones Islaam

In the name of Allaah the most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy.

All praise is due to Allaah, Lord of the worlds. May peace and salutations be upon the Last
Messenger of Allaah, and upon all those who follow him until the Last day.To
proceed:Brother and Sister Muslim, you must be aware that there are matters which nullify
your Islaam. Please be Mindful of them.

1. Associating partners with Alaah (shirk)

Allaah Most High says (in the meaning)

"Truly, whosoever sets up partners with Allaah,

then Allaah has forbidden the Garden for him, and
the Fire will be his abode. And for the wrongdoers
there are no helpers." (Soorah Al-Maa'ida 5:72)

Calling upon the dead, asking their help, or offering them gifts or sacrifices are all forms of
shirk.

2. Setting up intermediaries between oneself and

Allaah, making supplication to them, asking their
intercession with Allaah, and placing ones trust in
them is unbelief (kufr).

3. Anyone who does not consider the polytheists

(mushrikeen) to be unbelievers, or who has doubts
concerning their unbelief, or considers their way to be
correct, is himself/herself an unbeliever (kafir).

4. Anyone who believes any guidance to be more

perfect, or a decision other than the Prophets decision
to be better, is an unbeliever. This applies to those
who prefer the rule of Evil (Taghout) to the Prophets
rule.
Some examples of this are:

(a) To believe that systems and laws made by human beings are better than the Shariah
of Islaam; for example,

That the Islaamic system is not suitable for the twentieth century.

That Islaam is the cause of the backwardness of the Muslims.

Or that al-Islaam is a relationship beween Allaah and the Muslim. It should not interfere in
other aspects of life.

(b)To say that enforcing the punishments prescibed Allaah, such as cuttong of the hand of
the theif or the stoning of an adulterer, is not suitable for this day and age.

(c) To believe that it is permissible to give a rule from that which Allaah did not reveal in
Islamic transactions or matters of law, punishments or other affairs. Althoughone may not
believe such things to be superior to the Shari'ah he in effect affirms such a stnad by
declaring a thing which Allaah has totally prohibited, such as adultery, drinking alcohol or
usury, to be permissible. According to the consensus of the Muslims, one who declares
such things to be permissible is an unbeliever (Kafir)

5. Anyone who hates any part of what the Messenger

of Allaah [saw] has declared to be lawful has nullified
his Islaam, even though he may act in accordance
with it.
Allaah Most High says(in the meaning):

"This is because they hate what Allaah has sent

down, so he has made their deeds fruitless"
(Soorah Muhammad 47:9)

6. Anyone who ridicules any aspect of the religion of

the Messenger of Allaah [saw], or any of its rewards
or punishments, becomes an unbeleiver.
Allaah Most High says (in the meaning):

"Say: Was it Allaah, and His signs and His

Messenger that you were mocking? Make no
excuse; you have disbeleived after you had
believed." (Soorah At-Tawbah 9:65-66)

7. The practice of magic.

Included in this, for example, is causing a rift between a husband and wife by turning his
love for her into hatred, or tempting a person to do things he dislikes using black arts. One
who engages in such a thing or is pleased with it is outside the fold of Islaam. Allaah Most
High says (in the meaning):
 " But neither of these two (angels, Harut and
Marut) taught anyone (magic) till they had said,
Indeed, we are a trial; then do not disbelieve.
(Soorah Al-Baqarah 2:102)

8. Supporting and aiding polytheists against the

Muslims.
Allaah Most High says (in the meaning):

"Whoever among you who takes them as allies is

surely one of them. Truly, Allaah does not guide
the wrongdoers." (Soorah Al-Maaida 5:51)

9. Anyone who beleives that some people are

permitted to deviate from the Shariah of Muhammad
[saw] is an unbeliever
As by the word of Allaah Most High (in the meaning):

"And whoever seeks a religion other than Islaam,

it will not be accepted of him, and in the hereafter
he will be from among the losers." (Soorah Aal-
Imraan 3:85)

10. To turn completely away from the religion of

Allaah neither learning its precepts nor acting upon it.
Allaah most high says (what means):

" And who does greater wrong than he who is

reminded of the revelations of his Lord and turns
aside therefrom Truly, We shall exact retribution
from the guilty." (Soorah As-Sajdah 32:22)

and He [swt] also says (what means):

 "But those who disbelieve turn away from that
about which they are warned."

It makes no difference whether such violations are commited as a joke, in seriousness or

out of fear, except when done under compulsion (i.e. from threat of loss of life )We seek
refuge in Allaah from such deeds as entail His wrath and severe punishment.

by Shaykh 'Abdul-'Azeez Ibn Baaz