Quran 5:72 – Difference Between Kufr And Kafir?
We can identify a particular creed whether it is kufr or not but we cannot identify whether the person commiting or following that creed is a kafir or nor. Kufr is based on an ideology (creed) and flaws in an ideology can be identified and pointed out just the way Quran 5:72 pointed out that these particular ideologies of pantheism and trinity and told us that these ideologies are kufr and people were committing this kufriya ideology, but people doing his kufr will only be caled kafir after itmam-e-hujjah when they reject this truth knowingly or when they reject the Messenger Prophet Muhammad (sws) at that time knowingly.
So the term kufr doesn’t mean knowingly rejecting truth? And if a person says he believes in monotheism but at the same time he is involved in shirk I know we won’t call him a mushrik until he accepts that but can we say that about that person that he is doing shirk? Similarly can we say that those believing in trinity are comitting kufr?