Shaykh al-Islām—may Allah have mercy on him—also said:

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Everyone must know that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, sent Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, to both communities in their entirety: humans and jinn. He made it obligatory upon them to believe in him and in what he brought, to obey him, to regard as lawful whatever Allah and His Messenger declared lawful, and to regard as forbidden whatever Allah and His Messenger forbade; to regard as obligatory whatever Allah and His Messenger made obligatory, to love whatever Allah and His Messenger love, and to hate whatever Allah and His Messenger hate. Everyone must also know that any human or jinn against whom the proof of Muhammad’s messengership has been established, yet who does not believe in him, deserves the punishment of Allah Most High, just as do other disbelievers like him to whom the Messenger was sent.

This is a fundamental principle agreed upon by the Companions, those who followed them in righteousness, the imams of the Muslims, and all Muslim groups—the people of the Sunnah and the united community, and others—may