Is it permissible for a Muslim to agree to the baptism of his daughter in the church, knowing that this ritual neither benefits nor harms, in order to avoid problems with his Christian in-laws, and to affirm good treatment of them in the hope of their guidance?
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"The duty is to fear Allah and not to be courteous to the wife's disbelieving relatives at the expense of religion, because baptism is an act of disbelief by which a person is considered to have entered Christianity. It is a symbolic washing with water for purification, washing away sins, and starting a new life. In it, a person declares their faith in Christ, or guardians speak on behalf of children, and the priest pours water saying: 'I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.'"
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