Why the Khawaarij Cannot Grasp the Ḥadīth: “Whoever Has an Atom’s Weight of Īmān…”

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Why the Khawaarij Cannot Grasp the Ḥadīth: “Whoever Has an Atom’s Weight of Īmān…”

The Prophet ﷺ said:

“Whoever has an atom’s weight of īmān in his heart will be taken out of the Fire.”

— Sahih al-Bukhāri (22), Sahih Muslim (184)

This ḥadīth is a clear proof of Allah’s mercy and the reality of īmān—that it can remain in the heart even with sins, and that salvation is not reserved for the perfect.

But the Khawaarij can't handle this.

They reject it—not verbally, but in their creed and practice.

Why?

Because their core belief is:

“The one who commits a major sin is a kāfir, doomed forever.”

This completely contradicts the ḥadīth.

To them, iman is all or nothing—you either have perfect belief, or you’re out of the fold.

So they:

Make takfīr of the one who drinks alcohol

Excommunicate the one who falls into zina

Spill the blood of Muslims in the name of “purity”

And erase Allah’s Mercy with their own arrogance

Ahlus-Sunnah said:

“Īmān in the heart can exist even with sin. The Khawaarij deny this, and thus rebel and declare takfīr over matters that do not nullify Islam.”

Ahlus-Sunnah affirms what the Prophet ﷺ said:

Īmān increases and decreases

Even a sinful Muslim may still have the seed of faith

And Allah may forgive whom He wills

O seeker of the truth:

Don’t fall for the rigidity of the Khawaarij.

Hold on to the words of the Prophet ﷺ—because no ideology is more merciless than the one that claims to represent Islam while denying Allah’s mercy.

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