Are the callers in the newspapers to women's freedom and unveiling considered hypocrites?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, he says: What do you say about those who speak in the newspapers about the hijab of women and their rights, and speak about matters that are established in the Shari'ah, yet they are not among the people of knowledge? Is it permissible to call these people hypocrites because of the apparent nature of their innovation and the signs of it in them?
Answer:
If they intend to mislead, they are hypocrites. If they intend to mislead, they know the truth but want to mislead people away from the truth; this is the way of the hypocrites. But if they do not know the truth, they have erred in speaking about something they do not know. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:[An-Nahl 16:116] So if these people are ignorant, they have lied about Allah and His Messenger, and this is a great crime. And if they know the truth and want to turn people away from it, that is the way of the hypocrites, who are [An-Nisa 4:145]. May you be free from harm.
And this furious campaign against the Muslim woman is not a product of its day. This has happened in Egypt for decades, and what happened there of fighting the hijab and removing the hijab was due to callers who flatter and went to Europe and to France and studied there, so they are above. They are known, so-and-so and so-and-so, and they spread this malicious propaganda, and women and men were influenced by them and carried this fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), and this country was safe.
But when it happened, the real was mixed with the false, and what happened to this country happened to other countries: free mixing of men and women, and traveling to the lands of the disbelievers, and… And greater than that are the media that invaded the homes, and this confusion and strange mixing occurred, and al-Riyadh spoke, and those who are not good at speaking spoke about the affairs of the Muslims. All this is due to ignorance, and due to desire, and due to lusts, and due to blind following, but the truth, praise be to Allah, is clear. The truth is clear. Whoever wants the truth, it is clear. And whoever wants… falsehood.
Then it is also made easy for its people,[Al-Layl 92:5-10], so Allah deals with creation according to their intentions and their purposes and their goals, and He deals with them according to their purposes and intentions and goals. So whoever wants good, Allah makes good easy for him, and whoever wants evil, Allah punishes him and leaves him to the evil to destroy himself in it, because he is responsible for himself and for his group. So the result is that this is not strange nor severe. This has preceded in other countries, and they tried it and lived its bitterness, and now many of them want to get rid of it. Many of those who were afflicted in other countries, when they suffered from this evil and realized its dire consequence, many of them want to get rid of this evil. So let us take the lesson. The best of you is the one who gives advice to others. These are the ones, and we only take the lesson from that and what happened to other countries.
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, he says: What do you say about those who speak in the newspapers about the hijab of women and their rights, and speak about matters that are established in the Shari'ah, yet they are not among the people of knowledge? Is it permissible to call these people hypocrites because of the apparent nature of their innovation and the signs of it in them?
Answer:
If they intend to mislead, they are hypocrites. If they intend to mislead, they know the truth but want to mislead people away from the truth; this is the way of the hypocrites. But if they do not know the truth, they have erred in speaking about something they do not know. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:
And do not say about what your tongues assert of untruth, "This is lawful and this is unlawful," to invent falsehood about Allah. Indeed, those who invent falsehood about Allah will not succeed.
وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَا تَصِفُ أَلْسِنَتُكُمُ الْكَذِبَ هَٰذَا حَلَالٌ وَهَٰذَا حَرَامٌ لِّتَفْتَرُوا عَلَى اللَّهِ الْكَذِبَ إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَفْتَرُونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ الْكَذِبَ لَا يُفْلِحُونَin the lowest depths of the Fire
فِي الدَّرْكِ الْأَسْفَلِ مِنَ النَّارِAnd this furious campaign against the Muslim woman is not a product of its day. This has happened in Egypt for decades, and what happened there of fighting the hijab and removing the hijab was due to callers who flatter and went to Europe and to France and studied there, so they are above. They are known, so-and-so and so-and-so, and they spread this malicious propaganda, and women and men were influenced by them and carried this fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), and this country was safe.
But when it happened, the real was mixed with the false, and what happened to this country happened to other countries: free mixing of men and women, and traveling to the lands of the disbelievers, and… And greater than that are the media that invaded the homes, and this confusion and strange mixing occurred, and al-Riyadh spoke, and those who are not good at speaking spoke about the affairs of the Muslims. All this is due to ignorance, and due to desire, and due to lusts, and due to blind following, but the truth, praise be to Allah, is clear. The truth is clear. Whoever wants the truth, it is clear. And whoever wants… falsehood.
Then it is also made easy for its people,
(5) As for he who gives and fears Allah (6) And believes in the best [reward], (7) We will ease him toward ease. (8) But as for he who withholds and considers himself free of need (9) And denies the best [reward], (10) We will ease him toward difficulty.
فَأَمَّا مَنْ أَعْطَىٰ وَاتَّقَىٰ وَصَدَّقَ بِالْحُسْنَىٰ فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُ لِلْيُسْرَىٰ وَأَمَّا مَن بَخِلَ وَاسْتَغْنَىٰ وَكَذَّبَ بِالْحُسْنَىٰ فَسَنُيَسِّرُهُ لِلْعُسْرَىٰ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل الدعاة في الصحف إلى حرية وسفور المرأة يعدون من المنافقين؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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