and therefore, it must always be defined and recognized and not lose its color due to the shadow of nominal and unreal matters; to the extent that after the necessity of friendship with God, nothing in Islam is clearer than the necessity of enmity toward disbelievers; as God Almighty has said: ﴿قَدْ كَانَتْ لَكُمْ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ فِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَالَّذِينَ مَعَهُ إِذْ قَالُوا لِقَوْمِهِمْ إِنَّا بُرَآءُ مِنْكُمْ وَمِمَّا تَعْبُدُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ كَفَرْنَا بِكُمْ وَبَدَا بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمُ الْعَدَاوَةُ وَالْبَغْضَاءُ أَبَدًا حَتَّى تُؤْمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَحْدَهُ﴾[1]; “Undoubtedly, There is a good example for you in Ibrahim and those who accompanied him, when they said to their people: ‘We disown you and what you worship other than God, we disbelieved in you, and enmity and hatred appeared between us and you until you believe in the One God,’” and therefore, it is clear that following disbelievers has no place in Islam, nor is it permissible in any field and under any pretext; as God Almighty has said: ﴿فَلَا تُطِعِ الْكَافِرِينَ﴾[2]; “So do not obey disbelievers,” and said: ﴿فَلَا تُطِعِ الْمُكَذِّبِينَ﴾[3]; “So do not obey deniers.”

[The necessity for disbelievers to follow Muslims]

Rather, in fact, it is disbelievers who must follow Muslims; as God Almighty has said: ﴿رُبَمَا يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَوْ كَانُوا مُسْلِمِينَ﴾[4]; “How strongly those who disbelieved will wish that they were Muslims”; because it is evident that most of the disbelievers, especially in Western countries, due to being away from the centers of civilization, are culturally in a state close to savagery and have not grown sufficiently humanely, and therefore, they need to be educated and trained by Muslims. As before, on the sidelines of the nine crusades, after regretting their foolish act of burning Muslims’ libraries, they learned their experimental and mathematical sciences, brought them into their dark and ruined lands, and set them as the foundation of the industrial development of Europe; but they were not smart enough to learn the humanities of Muslims, and for this reason, their culture did not develop in proportion to their economy and remained at the same low and primary level;