Defending oneself when one’s honor is attacked
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Question:
I know some people who attack my honor and my uprightness. I meet them with a smile, as if I know nothing, but they increase in their cursing and insults. So, may I defend myself, or should I ignore it?
Answer:
Perhaps you are imagining this and you are thinking ill of them. Continue to deal with them well. And this that is reported to you about them is as Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Hujurat 49:6]. And if this is verified for you, then you pardon and overlook and deal with them well, yes.
I know some people who attack my honor and my uprightness. I meet them with a smile, as if I know nothing, but they increase in their cursing and insults. So, may I defend myself, or should I ignore it?
Answer:
Perhaps you are imagining this and you are thinking ill of them. Continue to deal with them well. And this that is reported to you about them is as Allah the Exalted said:
O you who have believed, if there comes to you a disobedient one with information, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become, over what you have done, regretful.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِن جَاءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌ بِنَبَإٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا أَن تُصِيبُوا قَوْمًا بِجَهَالَةٍ فَتُصْبِحُوا عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلْتُمْ نَادِمِينَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-072-فضل إصلاح ذات البين|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (54:46)
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