Is it permissible to use the term "criminal" for a person who displays his religious innovation?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Is it permissible to use the term "criminal" for the innovator who displays his religious innovation?
Answer:
How ugly it is to call the innovator a criminal innovator. He is less severe than the innovator, but if it is established that he is an innovator, if it is established that he is an innovator, because not everyone who thinks that this is an innovation is correct that it is an innovation.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: Is it permissible to use the term "criminal" for the innovator who displays his religious innovation?
Answer:
How ugly it is to call the innovator a criminal innovator. He is less severe than the innovator, but if it is established that he is an innovator, if it is established that he is an innovator, because not everyone who thinks that this is an innovation is correct that it is an innovation.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [4690- 4717] هل يجوز إطلاق لفظ مجرم على الشخص الذي يظهر بدعته؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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