#530: Debating an Atheist
QUESTION
” Sallam alaykum Ya admin,hope u are in good health,may ALLAH continue to bless you,please how do we debate an atheist,jazakumullahu khyran”
ANSWER
Wa alaykum Salām Warahmatullāh Wabarakātuh.
As for debating an Atheist, then it is permissible as long as there is no reason to think that it will lead to a dishonouring of Allāh and Islām, and the Debater is Learned enough to wade off the doubts and misguidance of the Atheist.
As for how, then you may refer to the books:
A. Al-Jawābu As-Sahīh Liman Baddala Dīn Al-Masīh
B. Hidāyatu Al-Hiyārā
Not for their Subjects, because they debate Christians not Atheists, but for their methodologies.
And in the works, recordings and debates of Shaykh Ahmad Dīdāt and Shaykh Zākir Naik are also examples in this regard.
Bārakallāhu fīkum.
Jazākumullāhu Khayran
25th Jumadal Ula 1439AH.
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