We hear in the media that it is permissible to be lenient regarding some of the fundamentals of religion for the sake of public interest; what is the validity of this statement?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: We often hear in the media today that it is permissible to be lenient regarding some of the fundamentals of religion for the sake of public interest; what is the validity of this statement?
Answer:
The Shaykh: This goes back to what was said about the fundamentals of the religion; there is no compromise. This is *mudahanah* (appeasement); this is *mudahanah*. One does not compromise on anything of the fundamentals of the religion, ever. The fundamentals are not something on which one compromises, because that means *mudahanah*.[Al-Isra 17:73] And if they were to take you [Al-Isra 17:74-75], then it is not permissible to give up anything of the religion, its established fundamentals, for the sake of pleasing the disbelievers. This is *mudahanah*. “And they would have liked to have deceived you, so they would have deceived.” Does this mean, by this hadith, or rather the Qur'an, that you are deceivers who give up something of it? This is never permissible. This is *mudahanah*. And it is not permissible to give up anything of our religion for the sake of pleasing the disbelievers, no matter what the situation is. May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, and this questioner says: If a person exerts his effort... And when they said to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), “We will worship your God for a year, and you will worship our gods for a year,” Allah the Exalted and Majestic revealed, in the context of reconciliation, [Al-Kafirun 109:1-3] to the end of the surah. That is, I am innocent of your religion, and you are innocent of my religion. Am I to give up something of my religion just to please you, so that you will be pleased with us? The matter is not about pleasing people; the matter is about pleasing the Creator. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: We often hear in the media today that it is permissible to be lenient regarding some of the fundamentals of religion for the sake of public interest; what is the validity of this statement?
Answer:
The Shaykh: This goes back to what was said about the fundamentals of the religion; there is no compromise. This is *mudahanah* (appeasement); this is *mudahanah*. One does not compromise on anything of the fundamentals of the religion, ever. The fundamentals are not something on which one compromises, because that means *mudahanah*.
And indeed, they were about to tempt you away from that which We revealed to you in order to [make] you invent about Us something else
وَإِن كَادُوا لَيَفْتِنُونَكَ عَنِ الَّذِي أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ لِتَفْتَرِيَ عَلَيْنَا غَيْرَهُa little. (75) Then [if you had], We would have made you taste double [punishment in] life and double [after] death. Then you would not find for yourself against Us a helper.
قَلِيلًا إِذًا لَّأَذَقْنَاكَ ضِعْفَ الْحَيَاةِ وَضِعْفَ الْمَمَاتِ ثُمَّ لَا تَجِدُ لَكَ عَلَيْنَا نَصِيرًا(1) Say, "O disbelievers, (2) I do not worship what you worship. (3) Nor are you worshippers of what I worship.
قُلْ يَا أَيُّهَا الْكَافِرُونَ لَا أَعْبُدُ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ وَلَا أَنتُمْ عَابِدُونَ مَا أَعْبُدُ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [33 -560] نسمع في الإعلام أنه يجوز التسامح عن شيء من أصول الدين للمصلحة العامة، فما صحة هذا الكلام؟ — youtube.com
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