al-Imaam Ibnul-Qayyim (May Allah have mercy upon him) said: "So it is said: Allaah only sent His Messengers and sent down His Books with the inkaar (rejection, disavowment, refutation and negation) upon the creation due to what they were upon from the rulings of the human beings and other than that. So with this the Messengers were sent and the Books were sent down, and the abodes divided into an abode of bliss for those who make the inkaar, and an abode of misery for those upon whom the inkaar is made [i.e. those who are refuted and rejected]. So maligning and vilification in regards to that [maligning those making inkaar upon those who oppose the Truth] is maligning and attacking the Messengers and the Books...
And whoever reflects upon the conditions of the Messengers with their nations finds that they were those who established the inkaar upon them - with the strictest of establishment - until they met Allaah the Most High, and advised those who believed in them [the Messengers] with making inkaar upon those who oppose them."
[Madaarijus-Saalikeen (3/122-123)]

ويجب عقوبة كل من انتسب اليهم، او ذب عنهم، او اثنى عليهم، او عظم كتبهم، او عرف بمساعدتهم ومعاونتهم، او كره الكلام فيهم، او اخذ يعتذر لهم بان هذا الكلام لا يدرى ما هو، او‏:‏ من قال‏:‏ انه صنف هذا الكتاب، وامثال هذه المعاذير، التي لا يقولها الا جاهل، او منافق،
بل تجب عقوبة كل من عرف حالهم، ولم يعاون على القيام عليهم، فان القيام على هؤلاء من اعظم الواجبات؛

Shaikh ul Islaam ibn Taymiyyah raheemahullaah said, "It is obligatory to punish whoever ascribes himself to them (i.e., the people of innovation) or defends them, or praises them, or magnifies their books, or hates that they be spoken against, or begins to make excuses for them such as by saying he doesn't know what this speech (against them) is or 'who said that he wrote this book'. This goes the same for similar excuses like these, which no one utters except an ignoramus or a hypocrite. In fact, it is obligatory to punish everyone who is aware of their condition yet doesn't assist in standing against them, for indeed standing against these individuals is form the greatest of obligations." Majmoo' al Fataawaa 2/132

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