The Ruling on Boycotting a Person and Its Conditions

Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence the Shaykh, the questioner asks: How is boycotting a person carried out? Does it have conditions? And what are those conditions?

Answer:
Boycotting a person means leaving them and not sitting with the people of evil and the people of misguidance, so that you are not influenced by them. So you boycott them in the sense that you do not sit with them, you do not ask them about things, and you do not contact them, so that they do not confuse you or make things ambiguous for you. Stay away from them, just as a healthy person stays away from a contagious sick person. Do they not impose a health quarantine on the sick so that their diseases do not spread to the healthy? Likewise, the people of religious innovation (bid'ah) are sicker than those who are sick in their bodies. They should be isolated, and one should avoid sitting with them and mixing with them.