How can what Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah mentioned in "Minhaj as-Sunnah" regarding the verse "Make no excuses; you have disbelieved after your belief" be reconciled with the fact that the group pardoned was disobedient, not disbelieving, for hearing disbelief without denouncing it, and what came in "Al-Majmu’" that "indeed, you would then be like them" makes the one who sits and listens without denouncing akin to the one who commits the act? And is one who witnesses a sin out of necessity or coercion described as disobedient, and does this indicate that Shaykh al-Islam does not deem a person who attends such a gathering a disbeliever as long as he denounces it in his heart?

The verse: "And it has already come down to you in the Book that when you hear the verses of Allah disbelieved in and ridiculed, then do not sit with them until they engage in another conversation. Indeed, in that case, you would be like them" indicates the obligation to avoid sitting with people of innovation and sin. The "likeness" in the verse is not a complete likeness in disbelief, but rather in disobedience and transgression, unless it is accompanied by contentment with disbelief and ridicule of Allah's verses, in which case it is considered disbelief. It is understood from the statements of exegetes that merely sitting with disbelievers and those who ridicule Allah's verses without denouncing it is a sin and an iniquity, and not disbelief, unless it is accompanied by contentment. As for one who sits under duress or out of necessity and denounces it in their heart, there is no sin upon them.