What are the guidelines for exposing the people of innovation and warning against them?
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence the Shaykh. The questioner asks: What are the guidelines for exposing the people of innovation and warning against them?
The Shaykh:
Yes, the people of bid'ah (religious innovation) have activity and they have a call. It is obligatory to expose them and it is obligatory to warn against them so that people are not deceived by them. Yes.
The questioner:
To put it simply.
The Shaykh:
As I mentioned to you, some people rule something to be a bid'ah (religious innovation) while they do not know. Everything is a bid'ah to them. Anything they do not know or are not aware of, they call a bid'ah. This is not permissible. The bid'ah is as defined by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)Mishkat al-Masabih 140Muttafaqun 'alayh (Zubair `Aliza'i). This is the bid'ah. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence the Shaykh. The questioner asks: What are the guidelines for exposing the people of innovation and warning against them?
The Shaykh:
Yes, the people of bid'ah (religious innovation) have activity and they have a call. It is obligatory to expose them and it is obligatory to warn against them so that people are not deceived by them. Yes.
The questioner:
To put it simply.
The Shaykh:
As I mentioned to you, some people rule something to be a bid'ah (religious innovation) while they do not know. Everything is a bid'ah to them. Anything they do not know or are not aware of, they call a bid'ah. This is not permissible. The bid'ah is as defined by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)
God’s messenger as saying, “If anyone introduces into this affair of ours anything which does not belong to it, it is rejected.”
صلى الله عليه وسلم من أحدث في أمرنا هذا ما ليس منه فهو رد
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [22 /84] ما هي الضوابط للإشهار بأهل البدع والتحذير منهم؟ | الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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