Declaration Regarding Selling Books on Islâmic Sciences, Providing the Means to Read, and Sending Letters Pertaining to Da'wah to a Kâfir!
Bismillâh'ir Rahmân'ir Rahîm.
All praise is due to Allâh, the One who perfected the religion, aided His religion, and manifested the truth! He has completed many endowments on us. With the perfection of his benevolence, He chose and was pleased with Islâm as the religion. He elucidated for us the principles of the religion of Islâm and its nation.
He brought forth the Messengers, who were the banners of guidance. Therefore, they called to His paradise, the eternal abode. He opened the doors of His mercy and made his creation love the eternal abode. He bestowed by granting varieties of good from His blessings to the Hanîf nation, the dwellers of the eternal abode. With the help of His religion, He facilitated the path of those who chose the eternal abode, through His magnificent help through the help of His religion. He bestowed upon them by removing every difficulty and sorrow in the eternal abode.
We bear witness that there is no true deity worthy of worship except Allâh, with a testimony that will benefit those who say it on the day which Allâh promised and threatened with. We also bear witness that Muhammad is His servant, messenger, beloved, and close friend. Oh Allâh! Send endless peace and blessings upon Muhammad, his family, and companions!
Foreword:
Allâh's right upon the sons of Âdam is to worship Him and not associate any partners with Him. Humans were created for this, and upon it, the covenant was taken from them. An individual cannot worship him without attaining Ma'rifatullâh, that is, without knowing his Lord. In order to be able to worship his Lord properly, he must know his Lord, his prophet and his religion and grasp this with its evidences so that he may answer these questions when he is inquired about them in the grave and reach eternal salvation in Paradise.
The land we live in is a land of Kufr, and the age we live in is an age wherein ignorance concerning the knowledge of Allâh and His religion has reached its apex. This is such an age that although written, visual, and audio materials are widespread and access to information is merely a click away, and above that, even though everyone is literate, ignorance on this issue is widespread. The transformation of acquired information into knowledge is only dependent on Allâh's grace upon a person and Allâh making him well-versed in His religion. The high rate of literacy was unable to prevent ignorance from prevailing in its darkest form. Generations are born with ignorance regarding Allâh and His religion, then grow old and die upon this very ignorance.
One of the issues wherein ignorance is the deepest among those who attribute themselves to Islâm, Tawhîd and the Salaf is selling books to the Kuffâr, providing them the means to read about Islâmic sciences, and writing articles/letters pertaining inviting them to Islâm. Even though the scholars of Islâm have issued verdicts on this issue for centuries, this issue has remained hidden to almost everyone in our century. This was also hidden from us until Allâhu Taâlâ granted us with knowledge. We used to act upon this neglected issue, on the grounds of the general welfare of the Da'wah and to benefit Muslims. However, moving forward, we have preferred to abstain from being an intermediary in the sale of books to the Kuffâr and from facilitating the Kuffâr the means to read on matters other than the essence of the religion, apart from the creed of Tawhîd and refuting opposing parties. This is due to the narrations we have reached. All praise is due to Allâh alone in all circumstances.
May Allâh forgive us, we had translated and published various works of the noble scholars, and we have been a means in selling them to the Kuffâr, giving them the means to read, and acquire in their possession. Some of these works were related to creed-Tawhîd, some were related to Fiqh, and some were related to the stories/narrations of the righteous. However, after Allâh's grace upon us to reach the narrations of the scholars, consequently with our research on these narrations, we saw that the scholars of Islâm have stated it is impermissible to sell Mushaf's, books of Hadîth, books of Fiqh, and books in which Allâh and His Messenger are mentioned to non-Muslims and even to facilitate such an opportunity for them. In the light of these verdicts by the scholars, we have decided not to be a means in this. For this reason, we have also decided to remove from our forum all issues other than Aqîdah, Tawhîd and refuting opposing parties with this regards. Our Lord, forgive all of our past and future sins! Âmîn!
Our future publications will only comprise knowledge that is a must for anyone to know in order to enter Islâm, and refutations opposing religions and sects regarding the creed of Tawhîd. On this path, we will not discuss matters that are subsidiary issues of the religion such as Fiqh (jurisprudence), and we will not answer Fiqh-related questions from those we are not a witness to their Islâm. Our address to people will only be regarding Tawhîd, and we will do this not because of the inadequacy of our knowledge, but because we are trying to act upon knowledge. This is not a change in creed; it is the correction of a wrong methodology in Da'wah. Our request from our Almighty Mawlâ is to make our Da'wah good and fruitful, to make us always upon guidance, to make us a means of the guidance for others, and to ease this for us. The effort is from us, and ultimate success lies with Allâh!
We now leave you with the opinions of the scholars. Inshâllâh, we will first present their opinions on the ruling of selling books to the Kuffâr and facilitating for them the means to read these books, and after that, we will present their opinions on the ruling of writing verses from the Qur'ân in letters pertaining to Da'wah.
May peace be upon those who follow true guidance...