Naming Specific Individuals in Forbidding Evil and Speaking About Scholars
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Question:
Peace be upon you. The great means and issues. Is this
Answer:
This is the evil, this is the evil itself: targeting specific individuals in the Friday gathering, naming so-and-so and so-and-so. This is not permissible. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sunan Abi Dawud 4788Sahih (Al-Albani) and he did not say so-and-so and so-and-so. He said: Sunan Abi Dawud 4788Sahih (Al-Albani) and so on.
So if one hears about speech that is known, as for naming specific individuals, this contains harms, it contains truth, and it contains fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), so this thing is not permissible. And if those named are from among the scholars, the matter is more difficult and more dangerous, because it is not permissible to speak about the people of knowledge, because the people of knowledge are the heirs of the prophets. They have a distinction and a share that it is not permissible to target them for, due to their sanctity, the intensity of their sanctity, and the sanctity of knowledge. Also, this makes people distance themselves from them. And if people distance themselves from the scholars, the catastrophe occurs, and there is no power and no strength except with Allah. If the pieces are removed from the scholars and people distance themselves from them, the catastrophe occurs.
And this is what the devils of mankind and jinn want. They want to isolate people from the scholars so that they connect with the devils of mankind and jinn to corrupt them. And no one speaks ill of the people of knowledge except one of two men, as I told you and I say now. Either a person who is an open sinner, having sins and violations, and the people of knowledge forbid him from these matters, so he wants to continue with them.
So either a person who is partisan, having partisanship and assumption about the group. We want schism. We want the right of the word. The right of the Muslims' word. Their word. The scholars do not agree with him on that. The scholars urge listening and obedience, and gathering the word. And obedience to the rulers. So he compels them because they do not agree with his schism and his other methodology.
So no one strikes the people of knowledge except one of these two faults. Then a person wants the forbidden desires and does not want anyone to forbid him from them, or a partisan person who wants to strengthen the word of the Muslims, the obedience, and wants to bring deviant ideas to the Muslims, and the people of knowledge oppose him in this and warn against it, so he strikes them for this, and this is speaking about them. Yes.
Peace be upon you. The great means and issues. Is this
Answer:
This is the evil, this is the evil itself: targeting specific individuals in the Friday gathering, naming so-and-so and so-and-so. This is not permissible. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
What is the matter with the people that they say such and such?
مَا بَالُ أَقْوَامٍ يَقُولُونَ كَذَا وَكَذَاWhat is the matter with the people that they say such
مَا بَالُ أَقْوَامٍ يَقُولُونَ كَذَاSo if one hears about speech that is known, as for naming specific individuals, this contains harms, it contains truth, and it contains fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), so this thing is not permissible. And if those named are from among the scholars, the matter is more difficult and more dangerous, because it is not permissible to speak about the people of knowledge, because the people of knowledge are the heirs of the prophets. They have a distinction and a share that it is not permissible to target them for, due to their sanctity, the intensity of their sanctity, and the sanctity of knowledge. Also, this makes people distance themselves from them. And if people distance themselves from the scholars, the catastrophe occurs, and there is no power and no strength except with Allah. If the pieces are removed from the scholars and people distance themselves from them, the catastrophe occurs.
And this is what the devils of mankind and jinn want. They want to isolate people from the scholars so that they connect with the devils of mankind and jinn to corrupt them. And no one speaks ill of the people of knowledge except one of two men, as I told you and I say now. Either a person who is an open sinner, having sins and violations, and the people of knowledge forbid him from these matters, so he wants to continue with them.
So either a person who is partisan, having partisanship and assumption about the group. We want schism. We want the right of the word. The right of the Muslims' word. Their word. The scholars do not agree with him on that. The scholars urge listening and obedience, and gathering the word. And obedience to the rulers. So he compels them because they do not agree with his schism and his other methodology.
So no one strikes the people of knowledge except one of these two faults. Then a person wants the forbidden desires and does not want anyone to forbid him from them, or a partisan person who wants to strengthen the word of the Muslims, the obedience, and wants to bring deviant ideas to the Muslims, and the people of knowledge oppose him in this and warn against it, so he strikes them for this, and this is speaking about them. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 8 من 10 / شرح الأصول الثلاثة / الإيمان بضع وسبعون شعبة / صالح الفوزان / العقيدة / كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:17:23)
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