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Beneficial Advice from Shaykh Sameer Al-

Qaadi on Compulsion.Shaykh Sameer, may Allaah Protect him, said:

One might force you to divorce your wife for

example, by putting you in jail. So you do that (you

divorce her). And one might force you, try to force

you, to utter a blasphemous statement. So for that,

one puts you in jail also. In the case of divorce; if

you divorce your wife in this case, the divorce doesnot take place. This is because it is considered a

compulsion in this case - that prevents the divorce

from taking place. But if you utter the blasphemous

statement in this case, then you blaspheme. This is

because here it's not considered a compulsion that is

an [excuse] for you to utter the blasphemous

statement without falling into blasphemy.

See, so compulsion differs from one situation to

another.

There are three things that I want to draw your

attention towards now. I read in a book for a person

(the author) who's living nowadays, who claims to

be following one of the madhaahib (one of the four

schools) but he's not, any way, he did notunderstand what the scholars said. Among what the

scholars mentioned when they talk about

compulsion, is they talk about cutting one's finger.

This is compulsion. So he (this deviant guy) said, "if

one is threatened by cutting ones finger, then it is

permitted for him to utter the blasphemous

statement." If one tells him "either you utter a

blasphemous statement or I'll cut off your finger."In this case it is NOT an excuse but he said it is.

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This is not correct because he mixed up things, so be

aware of this.

Now, what is the compulsion that makes it

permissible for one to utter a blasphemous

statement? Two issues.

1) If one is threatened by being killed, or

2) By doing something that leads him to die.

What does 'lead to death' mean? Sometimes being

hit continuously in a strong way. Or, for his hand to

be cut off for example, and then left without being

treated until he dies. Even, some scholars said what

is an excuse in this situation is to be threatened

ONLY by killing one. That's it. Other types of

compulsion are not excuses in this case for one to

utter a blasphemous statement. Of course, in this

situation, the one who's threatened has to believe in

his heart that the one threatening is going to do

what he is threatening to do, and he is able to do itand that he; the threatened one, cannot escape it. Of

course, these issues have to be satisfied for it to be

considered an [excuse] for him or her to mention

this statement.

An example of that, is what happened with

^Ammaar Ibn Yaasir, the great companion

(RaDiyyAllaahu ^Anhu). First, his mother wasthreatened by death to leave out the religion of

Islaam. She did not accept, so they killed her before

him, i.e. in front of his eyes. Then his father was

threatened to leave out Al-Islaam. He didn't say

what they wanted him to say, so they killed him.

Then ^Ammaar was beaten severely and was told

"we are going to kill you if you don't say such

statement" i.e. blasphemous statement. ^Ammaar

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said what they wanted him to say. Then he went to

the Prophet, ^Alayhis-Salaatu Was-Salaam, so he

told him this is what happened. The Prophet,

^Alayhis-Salaatu Was-Salaam, told him "If they do

it again with you, it is permissible for you to repeat

what you did."

From this hadeeth, and other religious proofs, the

scholars deduced the judgement of compulsion in

this situation.

The third issue: Be aware, that not always in the

case of compulsion the person is permitted to do the

thing that they ask him to do. Sometimes, even if

one is threatened with something---which is

religiously considered a compulsion, one is NOT

allowed to do what they ask him to do. For example,

if one is threatened by death (by being killed) to kill

another Muslim unrightfully. It is not permissible

for him to do it---although in this case it IS a case of

compulsion. But still, it is not permissible for him todo that, because it is not permitted for him to cause

the death of a person (the killing of a person) which

is prohibited to be killed---to save a person which is

(also) prohibited to be killed.

I don't want to give more details about this issue,

just I wanted to draw your attention to this issue.

What does he do in this case? He would be Patient.

If they kill him or her, then he or she would be a

Martyr. That's it. Just like that.