Is it permissible to label some of the mockers of the Committee for Promoting Good and Forbidding Evil as hypocrites?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to call some of the journalists who mock the Committee for Promoting Good and Forbidding Evil hypocrites?
Answer:
Yes. This work of his is undoubtedly very serious. However, he may be ignorant and imitating others who speak, so that he is not aware of the declaration of disbelief (takfir) until he sees what he does not have and it is clarified to him. If he disobeys, he is judged based on his words after advice and after clarifying his error in what he said and the seriousness of what he said. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is it permissible to call some of the journalists who mock the Committee for Promoting Good and Forbidding Evil hypocrites?
Answer:
Yes. This work of his is undoubtedly very serious. However, he may be ignorant and imitating others who speak, so that he is not aware of the declaration of disbelief (takfir) until he sees what he does not have and it is clarified to him. If he disobeys, he is judged based on his words after advice and after clarifying his error in what he said and the seriousness of what he said. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1534- 4717] هل يجوز إطلاق النفاق على بعض المتهكمين على هيئة الأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر؟ — youtube.com
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