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Following verses are also somewhat relevant to the topic. Allah has allowed them to worship how they chose to, who are we to stop it. وَلَوْ شَاء رَبُّكَ لآمَنَ مَن فِي الأَرْضِ كُلُّهُمْ جَمِيعًا أَفَأَنتَ تُكْرِهُ النَّاسَ حَتَّى يَكُونُواْ مُؤْمِنِينَ 10-99 Had your Lord willed, all those on earth would have believed altogether. Would you, then, compel people, so that they become believers? وَلَوْ شَاء اللّهُ مَا أَشْرَكُواْ وَمَا جَعَلْنَاكَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَفِيظًا وَمَا أَنتَ عَلَيْهِم بِوَكِيلٍ 6-107 If Allah willed, they would not have associated. We have not appointed you as a guard over them, nor are you a taskmaster for them. لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطر, إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّى وَكَفَر, فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ 88-22,23, 24 You are not a taskmaster set up over them, but whoever turns away and disbelieves, Allah will punish him with the greatest torment. Donating to encourage an act that displeases Allah is something different.
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Yes bhai and freedom to practice can be supplied by a government from a nation state- but can we still say that a Muslim should not propagate it or enable it with his own wealth?
And I being a student of Islam telling you what this Hadith means after applying all the principles of ilm-e-Hadith (i.e. The Principles of understanding Hadith).
I am not talking about punishment, but considering those people as evil and supporting them in their act. The hadith is very clear, it says “whoever of you sees an evil, stop it ” .
It seems from the clear hadith that our dear scholars and Muslim friends are reinterpreting clear and direct messages from Prophet and/or Allah. The hadith is as clear as it gets, and still we are busy reinterpreting it into context and applicability. If this hadith is authentic, it seems that reinterpretation of such a clear message is not an honest approach, unless our Muslim brothers feel that Prophet was a bad communicator. When Prophet clearly said “whosoever of you sees an evil, stop it” what is there to classify it based on context ? It seems when Prophet said “X” . he really meant “Y” . This hadith doesn’t exclude any evil act from the classification, however it seems we are interpreting it to exclude polytheism outside the scope. Then what evil acts did Prophet mean to include in it ? Adultery, theft, homosexuality? If he meant it, why didn’t he specify it in his message ? Specially when he knew that any word or statement he says should be very clear, as people will use his wordings for centuries. It seems our Muslim brothers are really proving that Prophet was a bad communicator in important messages (if this hadith is authentic). Similar observation is on the hadith of apostasy.