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And if it becomes clear to us that a corrupt interpretation is an excuse in the issue of excommunication, we will know why some scholars did not excommunicate due to their corrupt interpretations of some texts, and none of the scholars said that these people had become infidels due to their corrupt interpretations, nor did they consider these interpretations a rejection of the texts as the extremists claim. And when we say that a corrupt interpretation is a barrier to excommunication, this does not mean that everyone who claims interpretation is unconditionally excused, but rather that this corrupt interpretation is conditional so that it is not disbelief: First: It must not be in the origin of the religion: which is the testimony that there is no god but Allah, and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him; because this origin (the two testimonies) cannot be achieved with doubt in it; For this reason, scholars have unanimously agreed on the disbelief of the Batinis, for example, and that they are not excused by interpretation; because the reality of their doctrine is disbelief in Allah Almighty, not worshipping Allah alone, and abandoning the laws of Islam. Second: Likewise, a corrupt interpretation is not an excuse or a barrier to disbelief if it leads to denying what is known from the religion by necessity. Ibn al-Wazir - may Allah have mercy on him - says (in Al-Awasim wal-Qawasim): "... As for him who denies the revealed text or rejects it, he becomes an infidel as long as he is someone who knows by necessity that he knows it by necessity. The discussion is about the sects of Islam who agreed on belief in the revelation, but differed in interpretation. These are not considered infidels except for those whose interpretation is denial, but he called it interpretation as a deception of Muslims and a plot against religion, like the Qarmatians who denied describing Allah Almighty as existing, knowing, and capable, and other such attributes that the masses know by necessity that the Prophet, peace be upon him, came with them in their apparent meaning...".

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