A Fatwa Concerning One Who Declared Himself a Hindu

Question

Zayd, who is seventy or eighty years old, over a trifling matter that was under dispute — namely that those living at the saint’s shrine pay rent, and he served notice on two men that they had not paid him rent for four years — when Muhammad ‘Ali said that the tenants say they will swear on the noble Qur’an, replied: “Never mind an oath — I will sit on the Qur’an with my backside, lie down on it, stand on the noble Qur’an in my shoes and swear that the rent has not been paid to me to this day.

Answer

What use would it be to obtain a fatwa about a person in such a state? A fatwa is for one who is prepared to accept the rulings of Islam and the Qur’an. As for one who himself, by saying such words about Islam and the Qur’an, professes to have no need of Islam and declares himself a Hindu and an idolater — he needs no fatwa at all: he has already stated his position himself,…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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