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For the sake of Almighty Allah’s pleasure, bearing malice towards someone, who oppresses the weak, kills people, leads the people to commit sins or he/she is non-Muslim or has corrupt-beliefs etcetera, is permissible and appreciated. The following narrations and parables will explain and help one to understand:
On the authority of Sayyidunā Abū Żar رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ who said: The Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم said, ‘اَفۡضَلُ الۡاَعۡمَالِ الۡحُبُّ فِي اللّٰهِ وَالۡبُغۡضُ فِي اللّٰهِ’ i.e., the best of all deeds is to have love for the sake of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ and to have enmity for the sake of Him.
(Sunan Abī Dāwūd, vol. 4, pp. 264, Ḥadīš 4599)
Dear Islamic brothers! To love someone for the sake of Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ implies that to have love for a person because he is sincere to Islam. Similarly, to have enmity for Allah’s pleasure means that to have hostility towards a person due to the fact that he/she is either an enemy of Islam or not a practicing Muslim. (Nuzĥa-tul-Qārī, vol. 1, pp. 295)
Dear Islamic brothers! Before we start bearing malice and hatred against someone, we must think deeply that are we justifiably acting upon the permissible condition! Lest we may be under a wrong impression! Try to apprehend this through the following narration:
It is narrated by Sayyidunā ‘Āmir Bin Wāšilaĥ رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ that once (during the visible life of the Beloved Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم) a person happened to go past a group of people and greeted them, they replied to his greeting. After he had left, one of them remarked about that person and said, ‘I feel hatred towards him for the sake
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