---
layout: post
title: "Ruling on saying the Christians are better than Muslims in dealings"
publisher: "alsalafiyyah@icloud.com"
source: "Fatawa Al-Lajnah Al-Da'imah of KSA, Fatwa no. 18604, Question 1"
category: [fatwas,walabara]
hijri: Dhul-Hijjah 6, 1441
lang: en
locale: en
note: true
excerpt: "It is not permissible to prefer non-Muslims to Muslims, either in terms of how they deal with others or in anything else."
muftis:
  chairman: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz Ibn Baz
      url: /biography/binbaz/
  deputy_chairman:
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz Aal Al-Shaykh
      url: /biography/abdulaziz/
  members: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdullah Ibn Ghudayyan
      url: /biography/ghudayyan/
    - name: Shaykh Salih Fawzan
      url: /biography/fawzan/
    - name: Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd
      url: /biography/bakr/
---

### Question: 
 
It is common among us to say "Nowadays the Christians are better than Muslims in dealing with others."
 
### Answer:

It is not permissible to prefer non-Muslims to Muslims, either in terms of how they deal with others or in anything else. Allah has cursed the hypocrites who say to the disbelievers **"...they are better guided as regards the way than the believers (Muslims)."** [An-Nisa: 51] Even if some Muslims happen not to be honest in dealing with others, we cannot judge that all Muslims are the same.