thereof, seeking Al-Fitnah (polytheism and trials, etc.), and seeking for its hidden meanings" A'alImran 7 waki'I ibn jarrah said that the people of innovation look at the text with one eye"!!!! So it is clear that shaykh abdullatif divides allying with the kufar into two, and the one who does it for worldly gain is not a kafir. The list goes on to mentions a few, ibn al-arabi (543) , Imam Qurtabi (310) all have similar statements. I ask the brother to tell us who from the scholars of the past said that this hadeeth proves the kufr of the one who takes the kufr as awliya? Another doubt that the brother raised is the letter didn't not reach Quraish, maybe the brother can write down who preceded him in this exact statement,cause it is not relative here, why: a) because whether or not the letter reached its destination or not the companion RA still intended for quraish to find out the tactics of the messenger. The scholars even mention if a person intends to do kufr then he becomes a kafir from the moment he makes the intention not the moment he actually does the action. Because actions are rewarded according to their intentions another example is when the prophet said 'if two Muslims draw their swords to one another then both are in the fire , when the companions asked O prophet of Allah the killer we understand but how about the one killed and the prophet said