Back to search
The question

How do we respond to someone who says that the perfect Creator enjoys tormenting people by imposing impossible rulings, and finds no explanation for the Hadith: "If two Muslims confront each other with their swords, then both the killer and the killed are in the Fire," when linking it to the Great Fitna of the Companions, while believing that history is falsified in favor of the victor?

Share this answer

Source: FtawySummarized from the full answer at Ftawy · imported Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
The answer

Whoever undertakes to refute atheists must be armed with religious knowledge. The claim that Allah imposes impossible rulings or that He enjoys doing so is a slander that can only come from one ignorant of Allah and His tolerant . As for the , "The killer and the killed are in the Hellfire," it is restricted to those who fought for worldly gain and desires, and does not include the Companions in the battles of Al-Jamal and Siffin; for they were mujtahids and interpreters. The falsification of history does not mean that all of history is falsified; rather, it necessitates scrutinizing historical narrations according to the rules of the hadith scholars.

Summarized from the full answer at Ftawy · imported

Read the full answer on Ftawy
Where this answer came from
Source platform
Ftawy
Original fatwa ID
120881
Imported
Translation status
Source text, unreviewed
Read the full ruling
Read the full answer on Ftawy