I told someone that if they drink alcohol or sleep around or eat haram meat, or kill someone, it does NOT make them a non-muslim, unless they renounce their faith specifically…
Then I read the following, which certainly made me think… food for thought (excuse the pun)
***Hadith - Sahih Bukhari 8.800B, Narrated Ikrima from Ibn Abbas ***
Allah’s apostle said,
“When a slave (of Allah) commits illegal sexual intercourse, he is not a believer at the time of committing it; and if he steals, he is not a believer at the time of stealing; and if he drinks an alcoholic drink, when he is not a believer at the time of drinking it; and he is not a believer when he commits a murder.”
'Ikrima said: I asked Ibn Abbas, “How is faith taken away from him?” He said, Like this," by clasping his hands and then separating them, and added, “But if he repents, faith returns to him like this,” by clasping his hands again.
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