Combining the Abandonment of Irrelevant Matters with Concern for the Affairs of the Muslims
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Question:
The questioner says: Your Excellency mentioned in a previous lesson the hadith: "Part of the excellence of a person's Islam is that he leaves what does not concern him." There is another hadith: "Whoever does not care about the affairs of the Muslims is not one of them." How do we reconcile these two?
Answer:
The affairs of the Muslims concern you, so you should care about them. What is prohibited is that you care about something that has no benefit or is not among your affairs, and you intervene in it.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner says: Your Excellency mentioned in a previous lesson the hadith: "Part of the excellence of a person's Islam is that he leaves what does not concern him." There is another hadith: "Whoever does not care about the affairs of the Muslims is not one of them." How do we reconcile these two?
Answer:
The affairs of the Muslims concern you, so you should care about them. What is prohibited is that you care about something that has no benefit or is not among your affairs, and you intervene in it.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
تفسير آيات من القرآن الكريم 12-07-1435هـ — af.org.sa (44:00)
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