Our duty toward articles that attack the Companions and the four Imams in some magazines and newspapers
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The questioner:
We read in some newspapers and magazines from certain writers who attack the Companions and the four Imams, and perhaps they have inserted statements under the banner of abandoning the following of men,
The Shaykh:
the estimation. Following a scholar without knowing his evidence. Yes.
The questioner:
and personal independent legal reasoning? The question is: Do we respond to them in the newspapers and magazines and write the beliefs of the people of the Sunnah and the community in them, or do we respond to the specific articles and expose their falsehood?
The Shaykh:
Yes, it is obligatory for one who has knowledge and is able to respond; it is obligatory for him to respond to these people by clarifying the truth. It is obligatory for him to respond to them for the sake of clarifying the truth, because if the scholars remained silent, these evil ideas would prevail. Therefore, it is necessary to respond to them.
As for their claim that they are scholars qualified to derive rulings, this is not permissible in matters of creed and matters concerning the Companions. It is not permissible for independent legal reasoning to enter into these matters. These are matters that depend on what has been transmitted and do not admit of independent legal reasoning. Independent legal reasoning applies to issues of Islamic jurisprudence and derivation, not to issues of the principles of creed and matters of creed.
The issue of the Companions is among the principles of creed. It is not permissible for a person to say, "I am a scholar qualified to derive rulings, and I…" Rather, he must follow what has been transmitted. What is authentic in the Book and the Sunnah regarding their virtues, praise of them, love for them, and following them. Yes.
We read in some newspapers and magazines from certain writers who attack the Companions and the four Imams, and perhaps they have inserted statements under the banner of abandoning the following of men,
The Shaykh:
the estimation. Following a scholar without knowing his evidence. Yes.
The questioner:
and personal independent legal reasoning? The question is: Do we respond to them in the newspapers and magazines and write the beliefs of the people of the Sunnah and the community in them, or do we respond to the specific articles and expose their falsehood?
The Shaykh:
Yes, it is obligatory for one who has knowledge and is able to respond; it is obligatory for him to respond to these people by clarifying the truth. It is obligatory for him to respond to them for the sake of clarifying the truth, because if the scholars remained silent, these evil ideas would prevail. Therefore, it is necessary to respond to them.
As for their claim that they are scholars qualified to derive rulings, this is not permissible in matters of creed and matters concerning the Companions. It is not permissible for independent legal reasoning to enter into these matters. These are matters that depend on what has been transmitted and do not admit of independent legal reasoning. Independent legal reasoning applies to issues of Islamic jurisprudence and derivation, not to issues of the principles of creed and matters of creed.
The issue of the Companions is among the principles of creed. It is not permissible for a person to say, "I am a scholar qualified to derive rulings, and I…" Rather, he must follow what has been transmitted. What is authentic in the Book and the Sunnah regarding their virtues, praise of them, love for them, and following them. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 228 - واجبنا تجاه المقالات التي تطعن بالصحابة والأئمة الأربعة في بعض المجلات والصحف - الشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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