Some preachers sitting with women and preachers of shirk (associating partners with Allah) on television channels
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Question:
He says: What is your comment on what we sometimes see, where some preachers sit on some satellite channels with women and with preachers of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and bid'ah (religious innovations), under the pretext of making things easy and not closing oneself off from the world?
Answer:
These are not preachers. The ones who sit with unveiled women and watch what is wrong—where is the da'wah (calling to Islam)?
This is not da'wah, or it is da'wah mixed with what is wrong. This is a da'wah that has many dangers. The true, true caller to Allah does not sit in these gatherings. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:[Al-An'am 6:68] He says, Exalted and Glorified is He: [An-Nisa 4:140] [Al-An'am 6:68].
So, gatherings that contain what is wrong, whether with women or without women, it is not permissible for a Muslim to sit in them except while condemning it, clarifying it, and warning against it. As for sitting and remaining silent, relaxing with them, and laughing, that is approval of what is wrong, may Allah protect us from that. Yes.
He says: What is your comment on what we sometimes see, where some preachers sit on some satellite channels with women and with preachers of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and bid'ah (religious innovations), under the pretext of making things easy and not closing oneself off from the world?
Answer:
These are not preachers. The ones who sit with unveiled women and watch what is wrong—where is the da'wah (calling to Islam)?
This is not da'wah, or it is da'wah mixed with what is wrong. This is a da'wah that has many dangers. The true, true caller to Allah does not sit in these gatherings. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says:
And when you see those who engage in [offensive] discourse concerning Our verses
وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ الَّذِينَ يَخُوضُونَ فِي آيَاتِنَاAnd it has already come down to you in the Book that when you hear the verses of Allah [recited], they are denied [by them] and ridiculed; so do not sit with them until they enter into another conversation
وَقَدْ نَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِي الْكِتَابِ أَنْ إِذَا سَمِعْتُمْ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ يُكْفَرُ بِهَا وَيُسْتَهْزَأُ بِهَا فَلَا تَقْعُدُوا مَعَهُمْ حَتَّىٰ يَخُوضُوا فِي حَدِيثٍ غَيْرِهِAnd when you see those who engage in [offensive] discourse concerning Our verses, then turn away from them until they enter into another conversation. And if Satan should cause you to forget, then do not remain after the reminder with the wrongdoing people.
وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ الَّذِينَ يَخُوضُونَ فِي آيَاتِنَا فَأَعْرِضْ عَنْهُمْ حَتَّىٰ يَخُوضُوا فِي حَدِيثٍ غَيْرِهِ وَإِمَّا يُنسِيَنَّكَ الشَّيْطَانُ فَلَا تَقْعُدْ بَعْدَ الذِّكْرَىٰ مَعَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَSo, gatherings that contain what is wrong, whether with women or without women, it is not permissible for a Muslim to sit in them except while condemning it, clarifying it, and warning against it. As for sitting and remaining silent, relaxing with them, and laughing, that is approval of what is wrong, may Allah protect us from that. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-037-الفرق بين التيسير الشرعي والمعاصر|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:20:14)
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