The ruling on forbidding evil when an equivalent evil results from it
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Question:
If forbidding evil would result in an evil exactly like it, what is the ruling on forbidding it?
Answer:
Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) said that this is a matter of ijtihad (independent legal reasoning), meaning a point of disagreement among scholars. Some hold that the obligation to forbid evil does not drop, while others hold that it does drop because there is no benefit in it. If one goes to remove an evil and an evil like it comes in its place, it means we have gained nothing.
If forbidding evil would result in an evil exactly like it, what is the ruling on forbidding it?
Answer:
Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) said that this is a matter of ijtihad (independent legal reasoning), meaning a point of disagreement among scholars. Some hold that the obligation to forbid evil does not drop, while others hold that it does drop because there is no benefit in it. If one goes to remove an evil and an evil like it comes in its place, it means we have gained nothing.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 35 من 36/شرح العقيدة الواسطية (مع الأسئلة)/الأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة — youtube.com (52:09)
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