Mufti Online — Madrasah Ta'leemuddeen

Mistakenly saying something of kufr

· 19 Muharram 1447 AH1 min readEnglish

Question

If a person, due to slip of tongue, said something of kufr while not intending it, is he kafir?

For example, a person wanting to say that "one who rejects God is not a Muslim" but he accidentally says "one who rejects God is not a kafir" but then he realises and corrects it. Does he have to renew his iman and nikah?

Answer

If this happened by mistake and upon realizing the mistake one had corrected himself, then one will not be sinful. One will be excused and through this, one will not leave the fold of Islam.

And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

Answered by
Mufti Zakaria Makada
Checked & approved by
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
View original Compare with other Darul Iftas
Questions about this ruling, answered only from the archive with sources.

Where scholars differ, it’s safer to take the more cautious view.

Fatawa SA is an independent, read-only index of fatawa already published by Mufti Online — Madrasah Ta'leemuddeen. It is not a fatwa service. For your own situation, please ask a Mufti. Report an issue

For corrections or mistakes, please email us at fatawasa786@gmail.com.

Source: Mufti Online — Madrasah Ta'leemuddeen — https://muftionline.co.za/node/35973
Fatawa SA: https://fatawa.co.za/fatwa/muftionline-35973

People also ask

What words or acts take a person out of Islam?

“A1) If you are absolutely certain that your nephew and niece have become renegades (Murtad), then it was not permissible for you to give the rentals to them since a disbeliever (Kaafir) cannot inherit from a Believer (Mu’min)…”

Ibn Masood · 449 fatawa from 9 Darul Iftas on this

What the Darul Iftas say

Related fatawa