Do the mentioned arguments—regarding differentiating between one who heard and was pleased and one who was displeased, and by analogy to one who abandons prayer out of laziness, and the spread of offensive videos, and that the conveyor of disbelief is not a disbeliever, and the difficulty of declaring someone a disbeliever—absolve one's responsibility before Allah the Almighty, or is it obligatory to adhere to the apparent meaning of the Quranic text "then indeed you would be like them" and the Hadith "whoever abandons it has disbelieved"?
The noble verse explicitly states that there is resemblance, but not in its limits or extent. The imams of tafsir interpreted it as a resemblance in sin and committing misdeeds, not in disbelief or apostasy from the religion. Sitting with a disbeliever does not make one a disbeliever. And this resemblance is not in all attributes.
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