Is wearing a garment bearing the flag of Britain considered disbelief (kufr) or merely unlawful (haram), knowing that the cross is repudiated in the heart, and what is the difference between the ruling of it being reprehensible to have a cross on clothing, and the ruling of declaring someone a disbeliever (takfir) who insists on wearing the cross after its ruling has been clarified?
Ijtihad (independent reasoning) is obligatory regarding the ruling on wearing or hanging a cross. If the ruling is made clear to a Muslim—that it is a symbol of Christians—and he insists on wearing it, then he is judged to have committed disbelief (kufr). However, merely wearing a flag that has a cross on it does not render its wearer a disbeliever.
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