What is the ruling on backbiting an open sinner?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is the ruling on backbiting an open sinner? Backbiting an open sinner?
Answer:
And what is the benefit in it? There is no benefit here unless you backbite him for a reason, for example, to report him so that he repents, if there is a benefit in backbiting him. Yes. For example, you complain about him, saying, "He is a wrongdoer who ate my right." It is permissible for a person to mention the faults of his opponent to obtain his right. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is the ruling on backbiting an open sinner? Backbiting an open sinner?
Answer:
And what is the benefit in it? There is no benefit here unless you backbite him for a reason, for example, to report him so that he repents, if there is a benefit in backbiting him. Yes. For example, you complain about him, saying, "He is a wrongdoer who ate my right." It is permissible for a person to mention the faults of his opponent to obtain his right. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 1169- ما حكم غيبة الفاسق؟ - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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