What is the obligation regarding mosques that contain religious innovations?
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Question:
This is a questioner from outside this country who says: We have many mosques in the West, praise be to Allah, but most of them are upon religious innovations (bid'ah). Is it permissible for students of knowledge who studied in this blessed land, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to go to these mosques that contain religious innovations, to go and call them to the truth and deliver lessons there?
Answer:
It is obligatory for them. This is obligatory for them: that they go to them, teach the people, and instruct them. This is their duty.[At-Tawbah 9:122] This is their mission. Yes.
This is a questioner from outside this country who says: We have many mosques in the West, praise be to Allah, but most of them are upon religious innovations (bid'ah). Is it permissible for students of knowledge who studied in this blessed land, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to go to these mosques that contain religious innovations, to go and call them to the truth and deliver lessons there?
Answer:
It is obligatory for them. This is obligatory for them: that they go to them, teach the people, and instruct them. This is their duty.
For there should separate from every division of them a group [remaining] to obtain understanding in the religion and warn their people when they return to them
فَلَوْلَا نَفَرَ مِن كُلِّ فِرْقَةٍ مِّنْهُمْ طَائِفَةٌ لِّيَتَفَقَّهُوا فِي الدِّينِ وَلِيُنذِرُوا قَوْمَهُمْ إِذَا رَجَعُوا إِلَيْهِمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما الواجب تجاه المساجد التي فيها بدع؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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