Has Al-Qaeda Declared Hamas a Heretic
- Al-Qaeda has never officially declared Hamas a takfir. Al-Qaeda leaders have also made strenuous efforts to reform Hamas.
Rather this matter was even present during Al Qaida of Usama. For example, Abu Yahya Al Libbi mentioned the issues into which Hamas had fallen which is exactly the same into which Dr. Mohammed Mursi had fallen, and then he said at the end of his message “Oh Allah guide Hamas and bring them to the path of righteousness and reform”.45
As for not making Takfeer on them and fighting them, then the most prominent leaders of Usama’s Al Qaida did not make Takfeer on the Hamas government. And from amongst them are the two Libyan Sheikhs and Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri! Rather Sheikh Athiyyathullah Al Libbi openly declared it when he said “As for the mistake which Hamas has committed, we hope that they are excused and had some (wrong) interpretations and that they took the Fatwas of some of the scholars whom they trust. And we do not judge them to have fallen into Kufr, rather we see them as Muslims who erred. And we strive to advise them and guide them as we do with every Muslim”.46
And Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri had said during the time of Al Qaida of Usama: “I do not agree on making Takfeer on the leaders of Hamas, since making Takfeer on a specific individual is a grave issue, and it is necessary that the conditions for it are fulfilled and that there are no possible preventives. And I advise my brothers to leave this issue, and to focus on supporting Hamas if they do right and criticise them if they commit mistakes in an educational and propagative and just manner”.47
