Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

Removing by force the imam of a mosque who holds deviant ideas

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
The imam and khatib of a mosque, who is the leader of the digging of tunnels for the mujahideen, justifies the conditions for the supported jihad operations. The imam and khatib of a mosque, who has deviant thought, misleads the youth into the so-called jihad operations. The people of the neighborhood do not want him. And he does not want to leave the imamate. They are asking: Do we change him by force? We gather against him and confront him so that the mosque is written. And harm may occur, and sometimes it does not occur.

Answer:
No, this is not permissible. Changing him by force is not permissible. The authority responsible for the mosques, the governmental authority responsible for the mosques, is the one who changes him. As for you changing him by force, he may overpower you or bring someone to help you against you, so force is not appropriate in this. Force is for the rulers, and you do not have force. You are to judge by reform and advice. If that does not work, pray with others in other mosques. Yes.
Source دروس الحرم، درس في الحرم المكي 03-07-1434هـ — alfawzan.live (53:43)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

Flag this fatwa