It is illegal to call someone a kafir, because one can never be sure whether he would die on Imaan and Islam or not.
However, there is an exception I am aware of that a person who fights/insults/hates Islam, Muslims in full awareness of correct Islam can be termed a kafir.
Kafir means disbeliever or a person who rejects the truth.
Give proof of your "exception" to calling someone a kafir. I do not think it is right to ever call someone a kafir, no matter what! What gives you the right to judge them, even if they fight, hate, or attack Islam. It does not matter, you DO NOT call anyone a kafir. Give me proof that you are right.
Besides, to call ANYONE a kafir would be like announcing that they will be going to Hell. But, you do not know what is in anyone's heart. Maybe they are good. So God might forgive them if they lead a proper life with no really bad mistakes. You are not God, so you cannot judge someone a kafir. You can only call believers believers, but never call a disbeliever a disbeliever. Tell me a verse of the Quran that gives anyone the right to call anyone a kafir. You will find no such verse. Only Allah calls kafirs kafirs, not people. Try to prove me wrong. AND WITH AN AUTHENTIC VERSE OF THE HOLY QURAN!
I am no scholar and I am quoting an authentic scholar as the proof, his name is Shaykh GF Haddad. However, can you also provide proof that it is illegal to "ever" call someone a kafir.
If you are not a scholar, then I do not want your reply. If you are a Sunni Muslim, then it would be best to quote qualified Sunni scholars on this issue and not take out Ayahs shareefas from the Qur'an yourself or Hadeeth shareefs from the noble collections yourself. This faith of ours is not a joke. It is serious stuff. Only the qualified 'ulama in the traditional faith with spiritual excellence are allowed to rule rulings.
Calling someone a kafir (which just means a disbeliever) is a fiqhi issue only. Do not exagerrate on the word kafir. A kafir can change at anytime. Even a Muslim can become kafir. It is an Arabic language word.
it is better for muslims to be nice to non muslims, in order to show them a pleasant view of muslims and be able to introduce to them Islam…it is not wise to spread anger, hate and disrespect towrds islam as a muslim…and called people infidels is not the way to beliked by them…
Chinese I know for sure do not know what the word kaafir means but then no Pakistani is ever going to call a chinese a kaffir. Indian ki baat alag hain. Particularly if you visit GS and you are an Indian (sometime even a muslim one), you get called a kaafir or infidel often. Indian muslims share this feeling too. Go to the online website of *The Milli Gazette, *search on the word Pakistan and you will see many articles by Indian muslims how they don't even visit their relatives in Pakistan because of being treated like kaafir musalmaans.
JazakAllah for the hadiths which clearly explain everything regarding the topic.
We cannot call any person a kafir unless we have proper evidence of his/her kufr. For example George W. Bush or Salman Rushdi are confirmed Kafirs, I don’t think it would hurt anyone if we call them disbelievers, as we do call sky the sky and not the earth.
Quran al Majeed has used this word ‘Kafir’ for those who don’t enter Islam e.g Jews, Christians etc.
Moreover there are people who started their cult after Islam, and because of their believing that Quran is fabricated and calling Ummahat al Mu’mineen and Sahabah Kafir and Apostate etc etc, they have been declared as Kuffar by Imams and Scholars of Islam in every century, and this is why according to the above hadith, in order to strengthen our Iman we must not hide the truth and declare that Ayatulla Khomeni of shi’ism was a Kafir who supported Mulla Baqir Majlisi because of his rejecting Quran and Khomeni himself curse Sahabah in his books.
Please note that I am not saying that such people are to be called Kafir Kafir all the time, as this is simply non-sense. I only mean that the way we can’t pray behind George Bush because we believe that he is a kafir, we should never hide the truth because people dislike it and tell the people that exists.
Believing someone is kafir doesn’t mean hating him unless on harms Islam or Muslims. We live with many kuffar within our countries or their countries, but we respect their fundamental rights and don’t transgres.
This is just a lie, as I myself is from Karachi, Pakistan and this is the place visited by Indian Muslims more than any part of Pakistan, nothing you said above is true.
Brother stop cornering yourself and stop feeling guilty for something you didn’t do. Your appologetic behaviour is due to your weaknesses. Live a life full of respect and believe me, no one is going to respect, you will have to make them respect you.
First of all we Muslims from over all the world, regardless of their state of Iman and culture and language and econonmy are the most broad minded and tolerant nation. Racism is not part of our society as is of British and American and Hindu culture. We don’t kill hindus in Pakistan in response to genocide of Muslims in Indian Gujrat executed by extremist Hindus, though there is a good number of Hindus living in Sindh and Baluchistan.
We don’t attack Masihi Bradri (Christian Community) in response to Crusaders occupying Afghanistan and Iraq and killing thousands of innocent women, children and youngsters. Though the civilized Europeans and Americans don’t wait anymore and attack Muslim Community which lives in their countries, after some terrorist attack.
Discrimination towards Muslims in Europe and America is not hidden from the whole world.
Alhamdu Lillah, the light of Iman doesn’t let us Muslims hate Kuffar unless they harm us or our faith.
Though Kuffar (Jews, Christians, Hindus) never stop killing us, torturing us and black mailing us without calling us infidels (kafirs).
Dear Debater, an honest debate is not possible when you are not being honest. If it’s not honesty you have a problem with, then you are ignorant of the facts. While I will not stereotype all Muslims like you do, your statement above is very incorrect. There is racism in all societies, and Muslim societies are no better than the rest.
But to go beyond that and say Muslims are the most broad minded and tolerant of people is a gross misrepresentation of facts.
^Well, I gave you an example of my country where Jews, Christians and Hindus are not butchered and tortured in response to Crusaders' attack over Afghanistan, Iraq etc and we didn't attack Christian community here in Pakistan while the Great Britishers were attacking Muslims over London blasts, not only the Britishers but Muslims were attacked by other European Christians as well though they were not attacked by anyone.
If you do justice and look around, you will find only Christians, Jews and Hindus the most cruel and cunning people througout the globe, the way they are attacking smaller and weak nations and creating conflicts between nations (especially Muslims) so that they can do good business of arms and weapons.