DISBELIEF BY JUDGEMENT (KUFR-I HUKMÎ)

A person who says or does something which Islam dictates as a sign of disbelief will become a disbeliever even though he really believes by heart and professes to be a Muslim. It is kufr to respect what Islam commands us to insult and to insult what Islam commands us to respect.

To say “Allâhu ta’âlâ is observing us from the Arsh or from heaven” is kufr.
To say, “Allâhu ta’âlâ is wronging you as you have wronged me” is kufr.
To name a certain Muslim and say, “He seems like a Jew to me” is kufr.
To tell a lie and then add, “Allah knows that it is true” is kufr.
To make slighting comments about angels is kufr.
To say something derogatory about the Qur’ân al-kerîm or even about one of its letters, not to believe in even one of its letters is kufr.
To read the Qur’ân al-kerîm accompanied by musical instruments is kufr.
To deny or denigrate the original versions of the Bible and the Torah is kufr. [Today, the original versions of the Bible and the Torah do not exist.]
To read the Qur’ân al-kerîm with letters called shâz and claim to have read the real Qur’ân is kufr.
To make derogatory comments about prophets is kufr.
To deny any one of the twenty-five prophets ‘alaihim-ussalawât- u-wa-t-taslîmât’ whose names are mentioned in the Qur’ân al-kerîm is kufr.
To say, “He is better than a prophet,” about a person known for his charitable deeds is kufr.
It is an act of kufr to say that prophets ‘alaihim-us-salawâtu- wat- taslîmât’ were needy people, for prophets’ poverty was their own choice.