Publicly rebuking the rulers and citing the man’s public rebuke of Marwan as evidence
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there are many questions, may Allah grant you success, regarding the report of the man’s public rebuke of Marwan in the matters of the pulpit and the sermon. Is that cited as evidence for publicly rebuking the rulers, even though he was speaking in their presence?
Answer:
One rebukes the ruler if he makes a mistake in his presence; that is what is rebuked of him. But if he is absent, and he curses him in the markets and on the pulpits, that is not permissible. But in his presence, yes, he should point it out to him, saying, “You made a mistake; the Sunnah is such and such.” Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, there are many questions, may Allah grant you success, regarding the report of the man’s public rebuke of Marwan in the matters of the pulpit and the sermon. Is that cited as evidence for publicly rebuking the rulers, even though he was speaking in their presence?
Answer:
One rebukes the ruler if he makes a mistake in his presence; that is what is rebuked of him. But if he is absent, and he curses him in the markets and on the pulpits, that is not permissible. But in his presence, yes, he should point it out to him, saying, “You made a mistake; the Sunnah is such and such.” Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 04-11-1435هـ — alfawzan.live (52:24)
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