Chapter Eight Affiliation with Atheistic Doctrines and Jāhilī Parties

The legal ruling on joining atheistic doctrines and pre-Islamic parties

1 – Affiliation with atheistic ideologies such as communism, secularism, capitalism, and every other creed of disbelief is outright apostasy from Islam. Should a person who embraces such ideologies still claim to be Muslim, that falls under major hypocrisy, for the hypocrites outwardly associate themselves with Islam while inwardly siding with the disbelievers. Concerning them Allah the Exalted says: “When they meet those who believe, they say, ‘We have believed,’ but when they withdraw to their devils they say, ‘We are really with you; we were only mocking.’” (Qur’an 2:14). He also says: “Those who wait and watch your fate: if a victory comes to you from Allah, they say, ‘Were we not with you?’ But if the disbelievers obtain a share of success, they say, ‘Did we not gain the upper hand over you and protect you from the believers?’” (Qur’an 4:141).

Such duplicitous hypocrites each possess two faces: one with which they meet the believers, and another to which they return when they are among their atheist comrades. They likewise wield two tongues: one whose outward speech Muslims are willing to accept,