Fatwa #330822 June 2001Pakistan
Shaykh al-Islam al-Sirhindi says in Maktubat (Vol.3, Letter 38): "72 reported groups of bidah should not be called kafir, because they are Ahl al-Qibla". Why you call them (Shi'as) Kafir?
Answer
The crime of the Ja'fari Shi'as is not Bid'at, it is Kufr.
If it was Bid'at, we would not say they are Kaafirs.
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
FATWA DEPT.
If it was Bid'at, we would not say they are Kaafirs.
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
FATWA DEPT.