---
layout: post
title: "Treating Christians kindly"
publisher: "alsalafiyyah@icloud.com"
source: "Fatawa Al-Lajnah Al-Da'imah of KSA, Fatwa no. 10498, Question 3"
category: [walabara, non-muslim]
hijri: Dhul-Hijjah 6, 1441
date: 2020-07-27
lang: en
note: true
locale: en
excerpt: "Offering benefits and doing good to non-hostile unbelievers are from the worldly matters which are permissible, as long as a Muslim denies their beliefs and religion."
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: 

A Muslim man has a car and lives in a village in the desert. There is a Christian doctor in the village and this Muslim man drives him every month to any place the doctor wants. The doctor does not ride with anyone but him. Can we consider this a friendship relationship, and is it permissible in Islam?

### Answer:

Offering benefits and doing good to non-hostile unbelievers are from the worldly matters which are permissible, as long as a Muslim denies their beliefs and religion. Allah (Exalted be He) states: "**Allâh does not forbid you to deal justly and kindly with those who fought not against you on account of religion nor drove you out of your homes. Verily, Allâh loves those who deal with equity.**" [al-Mumtahanah: 8]