What is the standard for advising those who have fallen into a matter of scholarly disagreement, such as image-making and the like?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I advise those who take photographs with a camera, but they respond to me by saying that the matter is one of scholarly disagreement. His question is: What is the standard for advising in these matters of disagreement?
Answer:
We say: We do not worship through disagreement; we worship through evidence. So if the one who disagrees has valid evidence, then we accept it with our heads and our eyes. But if he has no evidence, then his disagreement is of no account. This is a rule in all matters, not just in image-making.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I advise those who take photographs with a camera, but they respond to me by saying that the matter is one of scholarly disagreement. His question is: What is the standard for advising in these matters of disagreement?
Answer:
We say: We do not worship through disagreement; we worship through evidence. So if the one who disagrees has valid evidence, then we accept it with our heads and our eyes. But if he has no evidence, then his disagreement is of no account. This is a rule in all matters, not just in image-making.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [583 -939] ما ضابط النصح فيمن وقع في مسألة خلافية مثل التصوير وغيرها؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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