Thread by @ClassicalMuslim

@SalafisUnveiled @AlShurahbeel A jamāʿ is represented by it's beliefs. If those beliefs are kufr, the jamāʿ is kufr. But the individuals within it cannot be judged kuffār. If they have affirmed the shahada they are regarded as Muslims - even if they claim affiliation to that jamā...

@SalafisUnveiled @AlShurahbeel Every Muslim is, by default, presumed innocent if they manifest kufr by the following excuses:

• ignorance [juhl]
• interpretation [ta’wīl]
• compulsion [iqrār]
• slip of the tongue [zallatul-lisān]
• sleep [nawm]
• irrationality (i.e. insanity, childhood, etc.) [junūn]...

@SalafisUnveiled @AlShurahbeel These excuses are impediments [manāwiʿ] to making takfīr on that person. The impediments are presumed to be in place for everyone & takfīr can only be made when each of them are "lifted". The only one with the jurisdiction to lift them is an elite jurist [mujtahid]...

@SalafisUnveiled @AlShurahbeel She or he is the only one with the necessary juristic competence to derive a legal judgement [ijtihād] on whether there is a fit between the accused and one of the impediments.

If a takfīr is made, it is still improper for a layman to say "He is a kāfir"...

@SalafisUnveiled @AlShurahbeel Rather he can say, "The ulemaʿ have judged him a kāfir" or the like. However, a layman who's sure of his creed is permitted to say, when he sees it manifest: "This is kufr". Observing an act of kufr is not the same as making takfīr on someone.

Now, to answer your question...

@SalafisUnveiled @AlShurahbeel Salafiyyah/Wahhabism/Khawarij is kufr. Affiliation with them is affiliation with a kāfir organisation, one of the 72 sects that is formally outside of "The Vast Majority" [As-Sawādul ʿAdham]. With the exception of those who are forgiven, this jamā is in the Fire.

Wassalām.