{"id":18328,"date":"2020-11-19T22:43:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T22:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=18328"},"modified":"2020-11-19T22:43:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T22:43:40","slug":"can-a-muslim-sunni-be-friends-with-a-shia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/can-a-muslim-sunni-be-friends-with-a-shia\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Muslim Sunni Be Friends With a Shia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 04573<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Answered by:&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong><u>Question<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Asalamualaikum, can a Muslim Sunni be friends with a shia (both girls),I mean is it alright to behave properly and follow ikram ul muslimeen with them and offer them Salam? Can we keep them as friends on any social networking site?<\/span><\/span>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<h1>\n\t<strong><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><u>Answer<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/h1>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">There are different degrees in terms of relations between two people or groups.&nbsp; The first degree of such relations comes from the heart, that of affection and love involving intense emotional commitment.&nbsp; This is called Muwalat or close friendship.&nbsp; This sort of friendship is restricted to true Muslims.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">The second degree is that of Muwasat, which means relationships based on sympathy, kindness, and concern.&nbsp; It includes charitable help and support and any well-meaning attitude of wishing well.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">The third degree is that of Mudarat, which means relations based on adequacy in courtesy, pleasant and friendly behavior, and mannerly politeness.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">The fourth degree is that of Muamalaat or dealings.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"> (Maariful Quran p.56-59 v.2)<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">From the aforementioned discussion, we can derive that the second, third, and fourth-degree relationship will be permissible and not the first.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Only Allah Knows Best<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Written by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 04573 Answered by:&nbsp;Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah &nbsp; Question &nbsp; Asalamualaikum, can a Muslim Sunni be friends with a shia (both girls),I mean is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18386,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18328\/revisions\/18386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}