Advice to Poets Who Are Fanatical About Their Tribes
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Question:
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, in recent times there have been many poets who are fanatical about their tribes, praising them and criticizing other tribes. What is your advice to these people?
Answer:
This is not permissible. It is not permissible to belittle people or belittle other tribes.[Al-Hujurat 49:11] It is not permissible to belittle people. If you praise your tribe without boasting, there is no harm. But if you belittle others, that is a matter that is not permissible. Yes.
The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, in recent times there have been many poets who are fanatical about their tribes, praising them and criticizing other tribes. What is your advice to these people?
Answer:
This is not permissible. It is not permissible to belittle people or belittle other tribes.
O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people; perhaps they may be better than them
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِّن قَوْمٍ عَسَىٰ أَن يَكُونُوا خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-13-الحياة السعيدة|صالح الفوزان|العام|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (51:43)
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