What else constitute akbar kufr (apostasy):
By examining this topic from different angels, it becomes clear that what is counted as kufr akbar is the following:
1. Abolishing shareeah as the law governing a country, as Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) did in Turkey, as he abolished the book Majallah al-Ahkaam al-Adliyyah which was based on the Hanafi madhhab, and replaced it with man-made laws.
2. Abolishing shareeah courts.
3. Imposing man-made laws, such as Italian, French, German law, etc., to judge between the people, or mixing these laws and Shareeah, as Genghis Khan did in his book al-Yaasiq, which combined laws from different sources; the ulamaa (scholars) ruled that he was a kaafir.
4. Confining the role of shareeah courts to so-called civil matters, such as marriage, divorce and inheritance.
5. Setting up non-shareeah courts.
6. Discussing shareeah in parliament and voting on it; this indicates that implementing shareeah is conditional upon a majority vote.
7. Making shareeah a secondary or main source, along with other sources of law. Even when they say that shareeah is the primary source of legislation, this is still kufr akbar, because it means that they are allowing the adoption of laws from other sources too.
8. Stating in the clauses of legislation that reference may be made to international law, or stating in treaties that in the case of dispute, the matter may be referred to such-and-such non-Islamic court.
9. Criticizing shareeah in public or in private, such as saying that it is rigid, incomplete or backward, or suggesting that it is incompatible with our times, or expressing admiration for non-Islamic laws.
Source: http://www.islamqa.com/index.php?ref=97 ... =governing
