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In my University, the imam leading the Jumuah prayer accuses people, including great imams of the past of being Kaafir. Is it permissible to pray behind him for Jumuah?
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Declaring a Muslim a kafir makes the speaker himself a Kafir because the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said "If a person says to his brother Kafir, one of them will certainly be so," (narrated in Mishkat al-Masabih). Thus if you believe the Imams he has accused of being Kafir were actually Believers, it would not be permissible for you to pray behind him.