You are free to adopt any religion you like and call yourselves by any names you like.
But, once having called yourselves Muslims, you must fully understand that you can
remain Muslims only as long as you stay within the bounds of Islam. These bounds
are: to accept the word of God and His Messenger’s Sunnah as the ultimate criteria of
truth and justice and to consider everything opposed to them as wrong. If you remain
within these bounds you are Muslims, but if you overstep them you cease to be part of
Islam. To continue, in such circumstances, to consider yourselves and call yourselves
Muslims is tantamount to both self-deception of others.
‘Whose judges not according
to what God has sent down,
they are the unbelievers’ (al-Ma’idah 5: 44).
to what God has sent down,
they are the unbelievers’ (al-Ma’idah 5: 44).