Interfaith & Multi-Faith Q & A


 

v Question: What is Interfaith?

v Answer: Interfaith, in its most basic sense, is when people or groups from different religious or spiritual worldviews and traditions come together. The word ‘interfaith’ connotates the Abrahamic traditions exclusively. For this reason, ‘inter-religious’ is also used in this regard. Interfaith can also include atheists and agnostics.[1]

 

v Question: What is Multi-faith?

v Answer: Multi-faith is where a person feels an affinity with aspects of more than one religion, philosophy, or worldview, and to believe that no one is superior to the others.[2]

 

v Question: What is Intra-faith?

v Answer: Intrafaith refers to ‘within, inside’. In the current day context, it refers to bringing all the strands of a religion under one banner.

 

v Question: What are Interfaith & Multi-faith activities?

v Answer: Interfaith dialogue, interfaith-based action, interfaith-based outreach, interfaith ifṭārs, interfaith dinners, Masjid Open Days.

 

v Question: What is the objective of Interfaith & Multi-faith?

v Answer: To confuse a person, especially a Muslim, making him or her believe that all religions and worldviews are correct. The aim of interfaith is to snatch the īmān or faith away from a person, leaving him in peril, and ready for the picking by Shayṭān and Dajjāl.

 

v Question: What is the Islāmic ruling on interfaith?

v Answer: Interfaith and all related activities are forbidden in Islām. Study the following fatwā: https://www.iftadua.co.za/interfaith-gatherings-and-meetings/8938/

 

v Question: What are the slogans and catch-phrases used to promote interfaith?

v Answer: Muslims are told to embrace adherents of other faiths under the garb of unity, tolerance, co-existence, mutual harmony, and other attractive phrases.

v Question: What is the dividing line between a Muslim and adherents of other faiths?

v Answer: The dīn of Islām teaches and promotes pure and pristine Tauḥīd. Every other religion in the world has elements of shirk, i.e., polytheism, in it. For this reason, Islām cannot be mixed or tainted with the teachings of any other religion.

 

v Question: Does Islām not teach a person to be good to others, help others, even to non-Muslims?

v Answer: Yes, Islām does teach a person to be good to humanity, but not to barter his or her faith by participating in the religious customs, festivities, and prayers of other religions.

 

v Question: Is Interfaith and Da’wah the same?

v Answer: No. They are two completely different things. In Da’wah, a person preaches Tauḥīd and the Risālat of Rasūlullāh g. In interfaith, one must be silent, appreciate, and accept the beliefs of others, even though they are polytheistic, blasphemous, and totally un-Islāmic.

 

v Question: What can I do to protect myself from this onslaught upon my īmān and faith?

v Answer:

1.     Recite Sūrah al-Kāfirūn every morning and every evening. 

2.     Stay away from people and organizations who engage in interfaith.

3.     Adopt the company of pious and upright ‘ulamā’.

4.     Refrain from taking Islāmic teachings and instructions from doubtful sources, dodgy books and websites, and radio stations that promote heresy and immorality.

5.     Begin a ta’līm gathering in the house. Read from the Faḍā’il A’māl, Faḍā’il Ṣadaqāt, Sīrat-ul-Muṣṭafā.

6.     Perform all the farḍ ṣalāh punctually in congregation, in the Masjid.

7.     Stay far away from social functions that contradict the sharī’ah.

8.     Take care to eat only ḥalāl ṭayyib food.

 

v Question: Why can’t Muslims embrace interfaith or multi-faith? Give me a few basic and logical responses

 

v Answer:

 

1.     One of the principles of belief in Islām, which is established through consensus, is that there is no true Dīn, i.e., religion and way of life, except Islām. It is the final religion and it abrogates every previous religion, faith, or creed.

2.     The fundamental principle regarding the Noble Qur’ān is that it is the final scripture. It cancels every previous scripture revealed before it (the Taurāt, the Zabūr, and the Injīl etc.).

3.     It is binding upon Muslims to believe that previous scriptures have been cancelled and abrogated, and these scriptures have went through change and alteration at the hands of man.  Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam once became very angry when he saw Sayyidunā ‘Umar Ibn Al-Khaṭṭāb raḍiyallāhu ‘anhu reading a page from the Taurāt.

4.     It is a fundamental belief in Islām that Sayyidunā Muḥammad Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam is the final messenger. If there was any of the Messengers alive, they would have no option but to follow Sayyidunā Muḥammad Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. When Sayyidunā ‘Īsā ‘alayhi as-salām will descend in the end times, he will rule according to the sharī’ah of Sayyidunā Muḥammad Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam.

5.     Sayyidunā Muḥammad Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam has been sent to the entire humanity until the end of time.

6.     It is a fundamental of Islāmic creed that it is binding to believe that whoever amongst the Christians, Jews, or other religions, does not embrace Islām, then that person is a disbeliever, and will enter hell-fire if he does not submit.

7.     In the same way, the person who does not observe other religions as disbelief, he will become a disbeliever himself.

8.     It is a filthy idea to conceive that all religions can be embraced as one and equal. The objective of this call is to mix the truth with falsehood. The goal is to destroy Islām.

9.     The effect of the call to unite the religions is to break the barrier standing between Islām and disbelief; the barrier between truth and falsehood; the barrier between right and wrong.

10.                       If a Muslim calls to the unity of religions, he will leave the fold of Islām. The call to unite the religions clashes with the fundamental beliefs of Muslims.  

11.                       If a Muslim is pleased with the unity of religions and calls to it, he is, in reality, claiming his happiness with disbelief, and he nullifies the veracity of the Noble Qur’ān.

12.                       It can never be permitted for a Muslim to adopt the interfaith line of thought or implement it practically. Likewise, it can never be permitted for a Muslim to participate in interfaith activities and charters.

13.                       A Muslim can never print the Taurāt and Injīl on their own. So how can it ever be permitted to print the Noble Qur’ān with the previous scriptures in a single volume? Whoever does this or calls to it is in serious deviation.

14.                       A Muslim can never accept an invitation to a multi-faith prayer centre, because he will be stating that there is a valid religion in which Allāh Ta’ālā is not worshipped. In essence, by doing this, he is saying that Islām does not cancel previous religions. It is quite clear that such an attestation is clear disbelief and deviation.

15.                       One cannot say that a church, synagogue, temple, or other place of worship is a Masjid or the house of Allāh Ta’ālā, or that followers of other religions are worshipping Allāh Ta’ālā, or their worship is accepted by Allāh Ta’ālā. The places of worship other than the Masājid are places where blasphemy in the name of Allāh Ta’ālā is done.

16.                       Muslims are bound to call the Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other faiths to the truth and light of Islām. This can be done through calling them to Allāh Ta’ālā, debating with them, giving them literature and audios on Islām.

17.                       Interfaith activities display that one has come down to their level and understanding that Islām is just a faith amongst the faiths, we seek the protection of Allāh Ta’ālā.

18.                       Embracing interfaith creates major problems within the home. A person is left without direction and marries, has children, and interacts with others as a faithless person.

19.                       Living as an interfaith advocate creates havoc in society, even in the case of a Christian or Jew. The interfaith advocate will be roaming about in confusion, not knowing how his own abrogated scripture will now ‘guide’ him because it clashes with the truth of Islām.

20.                       Islām has come to overpower every faith or religion. Nothing but Islām is accepted by Allāh Ta’ālā. May Allāh Ta’ālā save the entire Muslim Ummah from the misguidance of the interfaith movement, the Abrahamic Religion, and any idea or activity linked to it. Āmīn

 

v Question: List a few aḥādīth that deal effectively with answering the interfaith fitnah

v Answer:

1.     Sayyidunā Abū Bakr raḍiyallāhu ‘anhu reports that Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “The person who accepts the statement (testimony of faith) that I offered to my uncle (Abū ṭālib, at the time of his death) and which he refused to accept, it will be (a means of) salvation for him.”[3]

2.     Sayyidunā Al-‘Abbās Ibn ‘Abdul Muṭṭalib raḍiyallāhu ‘anhu reports that Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “A person has got the taste of īmān (faith) when he is pleased with Allāh as the Rabb, with Islām as the religion, and with Muḥammad ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam as the messenger.”[4]

3.     Sayyidunā Sufyān Ibn Abdullāh ath-Thaqafī raḍiyallāhu ‘anhu reports that he said, “O Messenger of Allāh, tell me something about Islām after which I will not have the need to ask anyone else.” Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “Say: ‘I believe in Allāh’, then remain steadfast on it.”[5]

4.     Sayyidunā ‘Uthmān raḍiyallāhu ‘anhu reports that Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “He who passes away while having full conviction that there is none worthy of worship but Allāh shall enter paradise.”[6]

5.     Sayyidunā Abū Hurayrah raḍiyallāhu ‘anhu reports that Rasūlullāh ṣallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “I take an oath by the being in whose control is the life of Muḥammad, there is no Jew or Christian from this nation who hears of me and then dies without believing in the religion I have been sent with, except that he will be from the dwellers of the fire.”[7]

 

ربنا تقبل منا إنك السميع العليم ، ربنا لا تزغ قلوبنا بعد إذ هديتنا وهب لنا من لدنك رحمة ، إنك انت الوهاب ، رضيت بالله ربا وبالإسلام دينا وبمحمد رسولا ونبيا

23 Dhul-Qa’dah 1444 | 13 June 2023

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