Guidance on Spreading Religious Innovations (Bid'ah) via Mobile Messages and Fabricated Wills
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Question:
This country was established upon the oneness of Allah (tawhid), and its rulers and scholars have pledged to uphold it, and it continues to do so, praise and thanks be to Allah. However, some people spread religious innovation (bid'ah) without realizing it, through a mobile message, a fabricated will, or otherwise. What is your guidance, Your Eminence the Shaykh?
Answer:
Yes, this country, praise be to Allah, was established upon the call to the oneness of Allah (tawhid) and sincerity to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and upon distancing itself from shirk (associating partners with Allah) and its causes. It was established upon the Sunnah and distancing itself from religious innovation (bid'ah), may Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) purify it. By the blessing of the call of the Imam, the Shaykh, the reformer, Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him), it has continued under the hands of his successors among the scholars and rulers who established it and preserved it. Therefore, it is obligatory for us to preserve it.
And we must avoid religious innovations (bid'ah) and newly invented matters, and not be lenient in any of them. We must not promote to the people anything except what is established in the Book and the Sunnah. It is necessary to present it to the people of knowledge and insight, so that nothing is inserted into it that is religious innovation (bid'ah), or shirk (associating partners with Allah), or deviation, whether from the ignorant or from the malicious opponents of this blessed call. We must be wary of what is spread on these mobile phones and the internet, for they are frightening means. Let us be wary of what is spread in them, and not be deceived by what is spread in them. It is necessary to ask the people of knowledge about everything spread in them, and it is necessary to resist it and declare it wrong until its people are driven back. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
This country was established upon the oneness of Allah (tawhid), and its rulers and scholars have pledged to uphold it, and it continues to do so, praise and thanks be to Allah. However, some people spread religious innovation (bid'ah) without realizing it, through a mobile message, a fabricated will, or otherwise. What is your guidance, Your Eminence the Shaykh?
Answer:
Yes, this country, praise be to Allah, was established upon the call to the oneness of Allah (tawhid) and sincerity to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and upon distancing itself from shirk (associating partners with Allah) and its causes. It was established upon the Sunnah and distancing itself from religious innovation (bid'ah), may Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) purify it. By the blessing of the call of the Imam, the Shaykh, the reformer, Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him), it has continued under the hands of his successors among the scholars and rulers who established it and preserved it. Therefore, it is obligatory for us to preserve it.
And we must avoid religious innovations (bid'ah) and newly invented matters, and not be lenient in any of them. We must not promote to the people anything except what is established in the Book and the Sunnah. It is necessary to present it to the people of knowledge and insight, so that nothing is inserted into it that is religious innovation (bid'ah), or shirk (associating partners with Allah), or deviation, whether from the ignorant or from the malicious opponents of this blessed call. We must be wary of what is spread on these mobile phones and the internet, for they are frightening means. Let us be wary of what is spread in them, and not be deceived by what is spread in them. It is necessary to ask the people of knowledge about everything spread in them, and it is necessary to resist it and declare it wrong until its people are driven back. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
لقاء مفتوح [الزلفي] — alfawzan.live (16:54)
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