Is it permissible to participate in what is wrong in order to change it?
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Question:
Your Eminence, father, the questioner asks: Is it permissible to participate in what is wrong in order to change it? And does this fall under the principle that says what is not permissible in the ends is permissible in the means?
Answer:
No, it is not permissible to participate in what is wrong in order to change it. If you participate with them in what is wrong, you have done what is wrong. So how do you remove a wrong with a wrong? Does one wash urine with urine? No. You denounce the wrong and do not participate in it. Yes.
Your Eminence, father, the questioner asks: Is it permissible to participate in what is wrong in order to change it? And does this fall under the principle that says what is not permissible in the ends is permissible in the means?
Answer:
No, it is not permissible to participate in what is wrong in order to change it. If you participate with them in what is wrong, you have done what is wrong. So how do you remove a wrong with a wrong? Does one wash urine with urine? No. You denounce the wrong and do not participate in it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1453- 4717] هل يجوز المشاركة في المنكر لأجل تغييره؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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