Can A Muslim Having Positive Feelings For Rigid Non-Muslim
So what are the rulings for us? What should our feelings be towards a person who is a deliberate denier of truth but he has still hope I was talking about a person whose hearts aren’t sealed you gave example of those whose hearts are sealed does that mean that when someone denies truth deliberately his heart is sealed immediately?
We are not supposed to decide whose heart is sealed. This is the divine knowledge. All we do is to keep the possibility of them turning around till their death.
In the absence of a Rasul , we have no way of knowing who is a Kafir in the sight of Allah . What we have are the statements of the person himself/herself, and we have no other option but to base our decisions on their open statements. So if someone makes an open statement that he/she is rejecting the message of Islam after knowing it to be true then they are Kafir in literal sense (i.e. deniers of the message of Islam ) but it still does not invoke the rulings of Kafirs specific to the people at the time of Rasul. The rest is our decision based on the available information. Meaning if someone hates islam to an extent that he is openly dening its message then it is natural for a Muslim to feel distant from him and it is also natural to not feel any love for him. However, it is not a religious obligation to hate that person, one can choose to still feel love for them in a positive way and wishing/praying for their Hidayah. Because keep in mind that now we have no way of knowing who is a Kafir in the sight of Allah and whose heart has been sealed by Allah . Religious rulings related to Kafirs declared by Allah were for that specific time when a Rasul was present among his addressees . __ Videos of Ghamidi Sahab shared in the following thread might prove helpful in this regard: Discussion 84548