The Ruling on Backbiting an Open Sinner
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What is the ruling on backbiting an open sinner?
Answer:
If it serves as a warning against his open sinfulness, if it is in his backbiting, a warning against his open sinfulness, then he is backbiting. Is that not backbiting? This is not backbiting; this falls under the category of advice. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: What is the ruling on backbiting an open sinner?
Answer:
If it serves as a warning against his open sinfulness, if it is in his backbiting, a warning against his open sinfulness, then he is backbiting. Is that not backbiting? This is not backbiting; this falls under the category of advice. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 103 من 108/شرح كتاب إغاثة اللهفان في مصائد الشيطان/أبطل الباطل/صالح الفوزان/العقيدة/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:01:57)
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