What is your guidance (may Allah preserve you) regarding those who have made their gatherings for slandering scholars in the name of forbidding evil?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: What is your guidance (may Allah preserve you) regarding those who have made their gatherings for slandering and backbiting scholars and sheikhs in the name of forbidding evil?
Answer:
As you heard the answer, as you heard, this is the very evil itself, and it is not part of forbidding evil, because it leads to a lack of trust in the scholars and the men of hisbah (religious police), and it leads to the disruption of security and other such matters. Yes. Allah, Exalted and Majestic, says:[An-Nur 24:19] This is spreading indecency and spreading evil. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: What is your guidance (may Allah preserve you) regarding those who have made their gatherings for slandering and backbiting scholars and sheikhs in the name of forbidding evil?
Answer:
As you heard the answer, as you heard, this is the very evil itself, and it is not part of forbidding evil, because it leads to a lack of trust in the scholars and the men of hisbah (religious police), and it leads to the disruption of security and other such matters. Yes. Allah, Exalted and Majestic, says:
Indeed, those who like that immorality should be spread [or publicized] among those who have believed will have a painful punishment
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحِبُّونَ أَن تَشِيعَ الْفَاحِشَةُ فِي الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ
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قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [437 -560] ما توجيهكم حفظكم الله فيمن جعلوا مجالسهم في سب العلماء بحجة إنكار المنكر؟ — youtube.com
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