What is your advice for those who want to suppress the methodology of critique and describe its scholars as backbiters?
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Question:
The questioner says: What is your advice for those who want to suppress the methodology of critique, and do so by rejecting the scholars who clarify the truth from falsehood by labeling them as people of backbiting?
Answer:
Critique varies. Not all critique is valid. There is critique here and there is denunciation. Valid critique is clarifying the truth, and only the people of knowledge can do this. Only the people of knowledge and insight can perform valid critique, clarify the truth, and clarify the error. It is not for every person. Valid critique is part of enjoining good and forbidding evil, and part of advising the Muslim community, but only the people of insight can do it, those who know how to perform valid critique and what the correct method of critique is. Yes.
The questioner says: What is your advice for those who want to suppress the methodology of critique, and do so by rejecting the scholars who clarify the truth from falsehood by labeling them as people of backbiting?
Answer:
Critique varies. Not all critique is valid. There is critique here and there is denunciation. Valid critique is clarifying the truth, and only the people of knowledge can do this. Only the people of knowledge and insight can perform valid critique, clarify the truth, and clarify the error. It is not for every person. Valid critique is part of enjoining good and forbidding evil, and part of advising the Muslim community, but only the people of insight can do it, those who know how to perform valid critique and what the correct method of critique is. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما نصيحتكم للذين يريدون وأد منهج النقد ويصفون علمائه بالغيبة؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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