Disputes and Partisanship When There Is a Difference of Opinion
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Question:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, he says: There is no doubt that trials (fitan) are numerous in this time, especially between the believers and the hypocrites, and there is nothing strange about that. But the matter that astonishes the people of faith is the occurrence of division among the people of religion and righteousness. One of the causes of this is disputing and splitting when there is a difference of opinion regarding a scholar’s view, or for the sake of adopting another scholar’s view, and their hearts do not expand to accept disagreement. What is your guidance in this situation?
Answer:
There is a difference between hypocrisy and partisanship. May Allah protect us and you from hypocrisy. This is very serious. As for partisanship, it may occur in some Muslims toward a school of thought, a person, a country, or a tribe. This is from the matters of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah). It is from the affairs of the jahiliyyah, because partisanship toward opinions, or partisanship toward tribes, or partisanship toward persons, is from the matters of the jahiliyyah. So the Muslim should not be partisan except for the truth. He follows the truth even if it is with one he hates or one he does not want. He follows the truth with whoever it is. Yes.
Your Excellency the Shaykh, he says: There is no doubt that trials (fitan) are numerous in this time, especially between the believers and the hypocrites, and there is nothing strange about that. But the matter that astonishes the people of faith is the occurrence of division among the people of religion and righteousness. One of the causes of this is disputing and splitting when there is a difference of opinion regarding a scholar’s view, or for the sake of adopting another scholar’s view, and their hearts do not expand to accept disagreement. What is your guidance in this situation?
Answer:
There is a difference between hypocrisy and partisanship. May Allah protect us and you from hypocrisy. This is very serious. As for partisanship, it may occur in some Muslims toward a school of thought, a person, a country, or a tribe. This is from the matters of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah). It is from the affairs of the jahiliyyah, because partisanship toward opinions, or partisanship toward tribes, or partisanship toward persons, is from the matters of the jahiliyyah. So the Muslim should not be partisan except for the truth. He follows the truth even if it is with one he hates or one he does not want. He follows the truth with whoever it is. Yes.
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