Guidance regarding a letter warning against the people of innovation
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Question:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, a questioner says: I found a letter that you introduced, containing valuable information and a warning against specific individuals by name, stating that they are people of bid'ah (religious innovations) and misguidance. I benefited from it, but I found people saying that this letter incites fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) and insults the scholars, so you should not read it. What is your guidance, Your Excellency?
Answer:
I do not declare myself free of fault, nor do I certify my own righteousness. I may make mistakes, but if you find an error in it that contradicts the Book and the Sunnah, we will point it out. However, saying that it is not appropriate because of personal desire or concern for the other people is not permissible. This is injustice. Say the truth, even if it is against yourself, my brother. I am ready: if you find an error in this book, write it down and send it to me, and I am ready to retract it, if Allah wills. But merely because it does not suit your temperament or the temperament of so-and-so, that is not a standard for the books of the scholars. Yes.
Your Excellency the Shaykh, a questioner says: I found a letter that you introduced, containing valuable information and a warning against specific individuals by name, stating that they are people of bid'ah (religious innovations) and misguidance. I benefited from it, but I found people saying that this letter incites fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) and insults the scholars, so you should not read it. What is your guidance, Your Excellency?
Answer:
I do not declare myself free of fault, nor do I certify my own righteousness. I may make mistakes, but if you find an error in it that contradicts the Book and the Sunnah, we will point it out. However, saying that it is not appropriate because of personal desire or concern for the other people is not permissible. This is injustice. Say the truth, even if it is against yourself, my brother. I am ready: if you find an error in this book, write it down and send it to me, and I am ready to retract it, if Allah wills. But merely because it does not suit your temperament or the temperament of so-and-so, that is not a standard for the books of the scholars. Yes.
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