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Seeking
and accepting help from the kuffaar
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Question:
What is the ruling regarding seeking and (then) accepting
help from the kuffaar?
Response:
This depends (on a number of issues).
If
there is no risk that seeking or accepting their help will
have a harmful impact on the religious commitment of the one
who asks for or accepts their help, then there is no harm
in that. However, if there is any risk involved, then it is
not permissible to ask for their help or to accept it - (this
being) in accordance with the Sharee'ah
evidences which indicate that it is obligatory to avoid (all)
that which Allaah has forbidden and to keep away from that
which will earn the wrath of Allaah.
It
was reported that the Prophet (sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa
sallam) accepted gifts from some of the mushrikoon
whilst not from others. The wisdom behind that was what we
have (already) mentioned (above), as was stipulated by the
scholars.
And Allaah
is the Expounder of success. And with Allaah lies all success
and may Allaah send prayers and salutations upon our Prophet
(sal-Allaahu `alayhe wa
sallam) and his family and his companions.
Shaykh
Ibn Baaz
Majmoo' Fataawa wa Maqaalaat Mutanawwi'ah - Volume 8, Pages
432, Question No.3
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