The Importance of the Role of Preachers in Teaching People Matters of Their Religion?
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The questioner:
The role of preachers in this matter, Shaykh Salih, if you would be so kind? We are deeply sorry about this, and we have indicated that this is the result of the negligence of students of knowledge. Many preachers and many orators do not focus on these matters: teaching people the rulings of their religion, the rulings of their worship, and explaining what is forbidden to them, what is disliked in worship, and what invalidates worship. They do not care about these matters; rather, they occupy the people
The Shaykh:
with general peace. Mm. Speech that is far removed from the context of the attendees and the people, in which they have no effort, and they cannot change it. They occupy them with matters they cannot change and cannot influence, while leaving what people need in their religious affairs, their transactions, and what they are actually facing. It is obligatory for preachers, orators, teachers, and educators to care for and focus on what benefits people in their religion, their worship, and their transactions, so that they may be on clear understanding of their religious affairs.
The presenter:
Yes, may Allah reward you with good. Perhaps some preachers, Shaykh Salih, believe that listening to news and commenting on it during the sermons is one of the important matters, while people need, as you have mentioned, to gain understanding in the matters of their religion. Perhaps Shaykh Salih has guidance regarding this?
The Shaykh:
Yes, it is this that led many of our brother preachers and orators to address general topics and international affairs. What led them to this is jealousy for Islam, without a doubt, and they want good. We believe and are certain that they want nothing but good. But people say to them: people need, in themselves, to learn the matters of their religion, their worship, their transactions, and the errors they are falling into. It is obligatory to take the initiative and focus on these matters. There is no harm if a person, at times or on certain occasions, addresses something that concerns Muslims,
The presenter:
Mm.
The Shaykh:
and alerts them to the dangers surrounding them. There is no harm in that. But to make every sermon, every lecture, and every conference about general affairs, while leaving the side of religion and the teaching of people in their worship, transactions, and religious affairs, and alerting them to the errors they are falling into—this is undoubtedly a defect, a defect in education and a defect in da'wah.
The presenter:
So there is balance; Shaykh Salih calls for balance.
The Shaykh:
Yes, balance, and starting with the most important, the most important.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
The role of preachers in this matter, Shaykh Salih, if you would be so kind? We are deeply sorry about this, and we have indicated that this is the result of the negligence of students of knowledge. Many preachers and many orators do not focus on these matters: teaching people the rulings of their religion, the rulings of their worship, and explaining what is forbidden to them, what is disliked in worship, and what invalidates worship. They do not care about these matters; rather, they occupy the people
The Shaykh:
with general peace. Mm. Speech that is far removed from the context of the attendees and the people, in which they have no effort, and they cannot change it. They occupy them with matters they cannot change and cannot influence, while leaving what people need in their religious affairs, their transactions, and what they are actually facing. It is obligatory for preachers, orators, teachers, and educators to care for and focus on what benefits people in their religion, their worship, and their transactions, so that they may be on clear understanding of their religious affairs.
The presenter:
Yes, may Allah reward you with good. Perhaps some preachers, Shaykh Salih, believe that listening to news and commenting on it during the sermons is one of the important matters, while people need, as you have mentioned, to gain understanding in the matters of their religion. Perhaps Shaykh Salih has guidance regarding this?
The Shaykh:
Yes, it is this that led many of our brother preachers and orators to address general topics and international affairs. What led them to this is jealousy for Islam, without a doubt, and they want good. We believe and are certain that they want nothing but good. But people say to them: people need, in themselves, to learn the matters of their religion, their worship, their transactions, and the errors they are falling into. It is obligatory to take the initiative and focus on these matters. There is no harm if a person, at times or on certain occasions, addresses something that concerns Muslims,
The presenter:
Mm.
The Shaykh:
and alerts them to the dangers surrounding them. There is no harm in that. But to make every sermon, every lecture, and every conference about general affairs, while leaving the side of religion and the teaching of people in their worship, transactions, and religious affairs, and alerting them to the errors they are falling into—this is undoubtedly a defect, a defect in education and a defect in da'wah.
The presenter:
So there is balance; Shaykh Salih calls for balance.
The Shaykh:
Yes, balance, and starting with the most important, the most important.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you with good, and may He do you good.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، أهمية دور الخطباء في تعليم الناس أمور دينهم؟ الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان — youtube.com
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