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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The dislike of some for the preacher due to worldly matters has no effect

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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. After this, a message reached the program from the Syrian Arab Republic, Aleppo. Its sender is one of the brothers, saying: Your brother in Islam, Hasan Ayn. He says: I am a young man, twenty-five years old. And Allah, Glorified and Exalted, guided me to the right path and to all that is good. We have a mosque in the village where I reside, and the imam of this mosque is an elderly man. So I asked him to allow me to deliver the Friday sermon regularly while I am in the village. The imam agreed to that, and I delivered the sermon for two consecutive Fridays. But I noticed that some of the brotherly worshippers are not pleased with that, and the reason is some of the disputes between my tribe and their tribes and the tribes of others, because our customs, because our bad customs and traditions led to that. Should I continue with the Friday sermon, or what do you advise me to do? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
Yes, continue with the sermon, and you are doing good in this, and may Allah reward you with good. As long as the imam has given you permission, and you have performed the sermon well, and it is more beneficial for the worshippers, then continue in your work. Do not look at the fact that some of the ma'mum (those praying behind the imam) are not pleased with it, because this dislike is without right. If it is as you described, that it goes back to tribal matters, then this is dislike without right, and it does not affect the imamah (leadership) or the khutbah (sermon). Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4246- كراهية البعض للخطيب بسبب الدنيا لا تؤثر - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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