Sending the campaign messages for seeking forgiveness via mobile phone
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: It has spread among people via mobile phone messages a statement calling for seeking forgiveness due to the cessation of rain and the scarcity of water, and they have called it the campaign for seeking forgiveness, and they invite us to send it to as many people as possible. The question is: What is the ruling on sending, circulating, and broadcasting it among people?
Answer:
Commanding people to seek forgiveness in this matter is required, especially when the rain is withheld. He says:[Nuh 71:10-11] and He says: [Hud 11:52] So it is among the causes for the rain to descend, because it is not withheld except by the blocking of tears, but the method the questioner mentioned via mobile phones, this is not appropriate, because there is a fear that things of shirk (associating partners with Allah) or seeking aid from other than Allah will enter with it. There is no need to send it via mobile phones; admonish the people in the mosque or in the gathering, saying: Seek the forgiveness of Allah, ask Allah for what is other than that, and the like of that, without sending it via mobile phones. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says:
Answer:
Also in the Friday sermons, in the admonitions, in the lectures, in the lessons. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: It has spread among people via mobile phone messages a statement calling for seeking forgiveness due to the cessation of rain and the scarcity of water, and they have called it the campaign for seeking forgiveness, and they invite us to send it to as many people as possible. The question is: What is the ruling on sending, circulating, and broadcasting it among people?
Answer:
Commanding people to seek forgiveness in this matter is required, especially when the rain is withheld. He says:
(10) And said, 'Ask forgiveness of your Lord. Indeed, He is ever a Perpetual Forgiver. (11) He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers
اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفَّارًا يُرْسِلِ السَّمَاءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًاask forgiveness of your Lord and then repent to Him. He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in showers
اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ ثُمَّ تُوبُوا إِلَيْهِ يُرْسِلِ السَّمَاءَ عَلَيْكُم مِّدْرَارًاThe presenter:
May Allah reward you
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says:
Answer:
Also in the Friday sermons, in the admonitions, in the lectures, in the lessons. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
الفرقان بين أولياء الرحمن و أولياء الشيطان [29] — alfawzan.live (1:12:07)
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