Are the Mu'tazilah disbelievers or are the people of innovation not to be made takfeer of?
Question:
Are the Mu'tazilah disbelievers or are the people of innovation not to be made takfeer of?
Answer:
The basis with them is that they are people of innovation who are not to be made takfeer of except those that are the likes of Ibraaheem An-Nidhaam who would make permissible consumption of alcohol and make permissible that which Allaah had declared unlawful. Likewise the case of Abil-Hudhail and those who were from the heads of them and would deny necessary/imperative aspects well known in the religion, as for the rest of the followers who do not know of this then they are considered innovators.
Shaykh Muqbil bin Haadee
Ghaaratul Ashritah, volume 1, page 279
Translated by Aboo Haatim Muhammad Farooq
