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What is the ruling on the word "makaffirni" (you have made me an infidel) which is common among Egyptians when angry, and is its speaker considered an infidel despite not intending disbelief in Allah or Islam?

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Those who say that do not disbelieve by it. It appears they intend to exaggerate in expressing the intensity of distress and boredom, implying that it leads a person to disbelief.

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