Please give me references from the holy Quran,ahadiths and history of khulfa-e-rashidin regarding employment of non-muslims instead of muslims as they can never be friends of muslims.
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Please give me references from the holy Quran,ahadiths and history of khulfa-e-rashidin regarding employment of non-muslims instead of muslims as they can never be friends of muslims.
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Khula-e-Rashidin
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none
can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.
We bear witness that there is no one (no idol,
no person, no grave, no
prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone,
and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of
His Messengers.
Allah Says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 60 Surah Mumtahanah verses 8-9:
8 Allah forbids you not with regard to those who
fight you not for (your) Faith, nor
drive you out of your homes, from
dealing kindly and justly with them: for
Allah loveth those who are just.
9 Allah only forbids you with regard to those who fight
you for (your) Faith, and drive you out
of your homes, and support (others) in
driving you out; from turning to them
(for friendship and protection). It is
such as turn to them (in these circumstances) that do wrong.
The guidance of Allah Subhanah and the Sunnah of the
Messenger of Allah (saws) is that those non-muslims, who do not fight, or oppose, or oppress the believers because of their faith in
Islam, must be treated with kindness and
justice by the believers. There is
absolutely no harm in making friends with such good non-muslims, even if they do not believe in Allah and His
Message!
The people whom Allah Subhanah has guided not to take as friends are those non-muslims, who
fight, oppose, or oppress,
or help others to oppress the believers simply because they are muslims! The
believers are warned against taking only such evil non-muslims
as friends!
There is absolutely no harm if
the believers employ non-muslims because of their
expertise in a particular field. But if
both the believer and the non-muslim have the same
merits, then it is obvious that the
believers must opt to employ the believers;
this will Insha Allah, be good for the believers in the life of this
world, and also in the Hereafter.
One of the biggest examples of
the believers employing non-muslims is the employment
of the Bedouin guide, Abdulla ibn
Arqat, by the
Messenger of Allah (saws), when he and Hadrat Abu Bakr (r.a.) migrated from Makkah to
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He
is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in
Islam,
Burhan