What is the difference between mudahana and mudarara?
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The questioner:
What is the difference between mudahana and mudarara?
The Shaykh:
Mudahana is not permissible; it is pleasing people to the anger of Allah. This is mudahana. Mudarara is that you ward off harm. You ward off harm with something that does not anger Allah the Exalted. You ward it off with something that does not anger Allah the Exalted. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh,
The questioner:
This questioner asks: Is mudahana...
The Shaykh:
Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) said:[Ali 'Imran 3:28] except that you fear them, this is the moderation, that you fear them. Yes.
What is the difference between mudahana and mudarara?
The Shaykh:
Mudahana is not permissible; it is pleasing people to the anger of Allah. This is mudahana. Mudarara is that you ward off harm. You ward off harm with something that does not anger Allah the Exalted. You ward it off with something that does not anger Allah the Exalted. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh,
The questioner:
This questioner asks: Is mudahana...
The Shaykh:
Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) said:
Let not believers take disbelievers as allies rather than believers
لَّا يَتَّخِذِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الْكَافِرِينَ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِن دُونِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما الفرق بين المُداهنة والمُداراة؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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