What is the criterion for boycotting the innovator and the open sinner?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is the criterion, may Allah preserve you, for boycotting the innovator and boycotting the open sinner?
Answer:
The criterion is if boycotting him has an effect on him in abandoning his religious innovation and abandoning his open sinfulness. If boycotting him has an effect on him, then you boycott him, because the boycott has become beneficial. But if boycotting him only increases his evil, then you continue with your advice to him and your teaching of him, perhaps Allah will guide him. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is the criterion, may Allah preserve you, for boycotting the innovator and boycotting the open sinner?
Answer:
The criterion is if boycotting him has an effect on him in abandoning his religious innovation and abandoning his open sinfulness. If boycotting him has an effect on him, then you boycott him, because the boycott has become beneficial. But if boycotting him only increases his evil, then you continue with your advice to him and your teaching of him, perhaps Allah will guide him. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 421- ما الضابط في هجر المبتدع والفاسق؟ - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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