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layout: post
title: "Coercion on disbelief"
publisher: "alsalafiyyah@icloud.com"
source: "Fatawa Al-Lajnah Al-Da'imah of KSA, Fatwa no. 9272, Question 8"
category: [fatwas,walabara]
hijri: Dhul-Hijjah 6, 1441
lang: en
note: true
locale: en
excerpt: "If coercion is actually existent, then the apparent declaration of disbelief is tolerated on condition that a person's heart is assured of faith"
muftis:
  chairman: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz Ibn Baz
      url: /biography/binbaz/
  deputy_chairman:
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Razzaq Al-Afifi
      url: /biography/afifi/
  members: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdullah Ibn Ghudayyan
      url: /biography/ghudayyan/
---

### Question: 
 
Does verbal or practical coercion justify professing Kufr (disbelief)?

### Answer:

If coercion is actually existent, then the apparent declaration of disbelief is tolerated on condition that a person's heart is assured of faith, Allah (Exalted be He): "**Whoever disbelieved in Allâh after his belief, except him who is forced thereto and whose heart is at rest with Faith; but such as open their breasts to disbelief, on them is wrath from Allâh, and theirs will be a great torment.**" [an-Nahl: 106]