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Ruling on seeking and accepting help from the kuffaar

Question: 9918

What is the ruling on seeking and accepting help from the kuffaar?

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

That
depends. If there is no risk that seeking or accepting their help will
have a harmful impact on the religious commitment of the one who asks
for or accepts their help, then there is nothing wrong with that. But
is there is any risk involved, then it is not permissible to ask for
their help or to accept it – in accordance with the shar’i evidence
which indicates that it is obligatory to avoid that which Allaah has
forbidden and to keep away from that which will earn the wrath of Allaah.
It was reported that the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) accepted gifts from some
of the mushrikeen and not from others. The reason for that was what
we have noted above, as was stated by the scholars. 

And Allaah
is the Source of strength. May Allaah bless our Prophet Muhammad and
his family and companions, and grant them peace. 

Source

Majmoo Fataawa wa Maqaalaat Mutanawwi’ah li Samaahat al-Shaykh al-‘Allaamah ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him), vol. 8, p. 432

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