Returning Matters of Disagreement to the Evidence: For Example, the Ruling on the One Who Abandons Prayer Out of Negligence
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Do we enter into all of this regarding prayer, negligence, and laxity? Is it obligatory for one who sees another view that he considers disbelief to fight for another hour? And likewise, one who sees another view should not accuse another hour of being from the Khawarij who drive people away from the earth. I bear witness that you are guided by Allah. This matter has occurred among some of the youth.
Answer:
We must look at the disagreement by looking at the evidence. Whoever has the correct evidence is right, and the other is wrong. The evidence is with the one who holds that abandoning prayer is major shirk (associating partners with Allah) that takes one out of the fold of Islam; this is the one who has the correct evidence. Whoever says otherwise is mistaken; this is an error and contrary to the evidence. We do not return to the disagreement; we return to the evidence.
[An-Nisa 4:59]. We do not return the dispute to a specific person, or to the disagreement of scholars, or to the Book and the Sunnah. Whoever has the evidence is the one who is right, and whoever does not have the evidence is the one who is mistaken. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Do we enter into all of this regarding prayer, negligence, and laxity? Is it obligatory for one who sees another view that he considers disbelief to fight for another hour? And likewise, one who sees another view should not accuse another hour of being from the Khawarij who drive people away from the earth. I bear witness that you are guided by Allah. This matter has occurred among some of the youth.
Answer:
We must look at the disagreement by looking at the evidence. Whoever has the correct evidence is right, and the other is wrong. The evidence is with the one who holds that abandoning prayer is major shirk (associating partners with Allah) that takes one out of the fold of Islam; this is the one who has the correct evidence. Whoever says otherwise is mistaken; this is an error and contrary to the evidence. We do not return to the disagreement; we return to the evidence.
And if you disagree over anything, refer it to Allah and the Messenger, if you should believe in Allah and the Last Day
فَإِن تَنَازَعْتُمْ فِي شَيْءٍ فَرُدُّوهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَالرَّسُولِ إِن كُنتُمْ تُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 88- ردُّ مسائل الخلاف إلى الدليل مثل: حكم تارك الصلاة تهاونا - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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