Allaah said
:
وَدُّوا لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ
They wish that you should compromise (in religion out of courtesy) with them, so they (too) would compromise with you. (Al-Qalam, ayah 9)
Imam Ibn Katheer (rahimahullaah Ta’aala) said about this ayah that it means: “They want you to be quiet about their gods and abandon the truth you are upon.”
[The disbelievers and Ahlul-Bid'ah wish that those relaying the truth and forbidding falsehood cease doing so.] And this is exactly what happens to the ‘ulemma of Ahlus-Sunnah, specifically, and on another level the students and the du’aat (callers).
In regards to the callers dealing with other Muslims, it means [Ahlul-Bid'ah desiring] abandoning talking about their [Ahlul-Bid'ah's] deviation, abandoning talking about their extremism, abandoning talking about their heresies, abandoning talking about their misguidance, or not saying the truth.
Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan (hafidhahullaah Ta’aala) said in his tafseer of this ayah:
لَوْ تُدْهِنُ
They wish that you should compromise with them : This is al-Mudahana, and it is to renounce or compromise something from the Religion to please those people [kufaar or Ahlul-Bid'ah], renouncing or giving up something from the Religion to please those people.
- This means [that people of kufr desire that] Ahlul-Islaam making Mudahana with Ahlul-Kufaar
- (Or) coming down a notch, this means [that people of bid'ah desire that] Ahlus-Sunnah making Mudahana with Ahlul-Bid’ah
- (Or) it could also be the people of Islaam with both the kufaar and Ahlul-Bid’ah
Shaikh Fawzaan said: [Allaah said:]
وَدُّوا لَوْ تُدْهِنُ فَيُدْهِنُونَ
They wish that you should compromise (in religion out of courtesy) with them, so they (too) would compromise with you. (Al-Qalam, ayah 9)
The Kufaar would like you to compromise, for if you were to incline just a little bit, you would give them what [they] want. So you would compromise with them, and them with you.
