The Criterion for Using Gentleness with the People of Innovation
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: What is the criterion for using gentleness with the people of innovation, in accordance with the saying of the Exalted: “Speak to them gently.”
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
Using gentleness.
The Shaykh:
Yes, if it has an effect on them, my brother, you use gentleness with the disbeliever, you use gentleness with Pharaoh, if it has an effect on him, then use it, yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: What is the criterion for using gentleness with the people of innovation, in accordance with the saying of the Exalted: “Speak to them gently.”
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
Using gentleness.
The Shaykh:
Yes, if it has an effect on them, my brother, you use gentleness with the disbeliever, you use gentleness with Pharaoh, if it has an effect on him, then use it, yes.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان 07-01-1435هـ — af.org.sa (52:24)
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