Gentleness and Harshness in Calling to Allah
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: How does the one who calls to Allah combine gentleness with people in da'wah (calling others to Islam) if they are disbelievers, with what has come in the verses, such as the saying of Ibrahim (peace be upon him)[Al-Anbya 21:67] and his saying [Al-Mumtahanah 60:4], and the explicit statement thereof? How does he combine between them?
Answer:
Do you not read the other verse? He said:[Al-Anbya 21:52-54] This is from the difference in the positions of the caller to Allah. That is, he sees people prostrating to an idol and is gentle with them? No, he must denounce it to us. Prostrate to the Creator and do not prostrate to an idol. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: How does the one who calls to Allah combine gentleness with people in da'wah (calling others to Islam) if they are disbelievers, with what has come in the verses, such as the saying of Ibrahim (peace be upon him)
Uff to you and to what you worship instead of Allah
أُفٍّ لَّكُمْ وَلِمَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِthere has appeared between us and you animosity and hatred
وَبَدَا بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمُ الْعَدَاوَةُ وَالْبَغْضَاءُAnswer:
Do you not read the other verse? He said:
"What are these statues to which you are devoted?" (53) They said, "We found our fathers worshippers of them." (54) He said, "You were certainly, you and your fathers, in manifest error."
مَا هَٰذِهِ التَّمَاثِيلُ الَّتِي أَنتُمْ لَهَا عَاكِفُونَ قَالُوا وَجَدْنَا آبَاءَنَا لَهَا عَابِدِينَ قَالَ لَقَدْ كُنتُمْ أَنتُمْ وَآبَاؤُكُمْ فِي ضَلَالٍ مُّبِينٍ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 1597- الرفق والغلظة في الدعوة إلى الله - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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