Are the groups that excommunicate scholars and common people, avoid praying in mosques, and gather in their own private mosques considered Kharijites? Is their danger greater than that of the Kharijites? What are the hadiths reported about them? How should they be dealt with, in terms of boycotting them or continuing to advise them? And what is the ruling, in the view of Islamic law, on a person who pronounces the two testimonies of faith, establishes prayer, and does not commit major shirk?

Excommunicating a Muslim is one of the greatest afflictions and trials, and it is a characteristic of the Khawarij who excommunicate perpetrators of major sins and those who disagree with them. Scholars have unanimously agreed that the Khawarij are not disbelievers, despite their innovation and deviation. Numerous Prophetic narrations describe the Khawarij as those who recite the Quran but it does not go beyond their throats, who kill the people of Islam and leave alone the idol worshippers, and who abandon Islam. Whoever utters the two testimonies of faith, performs the prayer, and does not commit major shirk, is ruled to be a Muslim until something that nullifies his faith becomes apparent from him, and the impediments to declaring him a disbeliever are removed.