An article in a magazine accusing one of the readers of being a charlatan
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The questioner:
Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. After that, your eminence, Shaykh Ali al-‘Umrī or al-‘Umayrī? Al-‘Umayrī. Al-‘Umrī. Al-‘Umrī, the imam of the Quba’ Mosque. However, the magazine al-Sharq, which is published in Dammam, issue number 362, dated the 1st of Rabi’ al-Thani, published on page 34 to the end, under the title “Two Stories in the Tale of the Woman and the Shaykh,” words attributed to a woman who claims she visited the shaykh for an illness that exhausted her. She says that he takes the money at the speed of lightning and stuffs it into his pocket until it is completely full. And that he sat between a girl’s chest and her belly, and she mentions words that make the shaykh resemble sorcerers and fraudsters more. The magazine presents the words of this alleged woman in a way that steers the doubt toward the magazine’s goals and intentions. Therefore, Your Eminence the Shaykh, we ask you to read the article in the magazine and give us a comprehensive answer next week, to establish the truth and refute the falsehood. Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. The magazine is attached, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh:
We read it and knew it, and it is a lie and falsehood from this woman. This is a plot by some people with the intention of tarnishing this man and showing that he is not good, but rather a charlatan, just to make people turn away from him. And they came to us after that, and we advised him to publish an article himself to clarify the response to this magazine and the falsehood in it. The man is known to us without a doubt, from the best of people. We ask Allah to help him with the truth and to guide him to the truth. With the large number of people who come to him for recitation and treatment, there must be enemies and rivals. And there must be some patients who do not succeed; he may recite for them and they do not succeed. Then they speak. It is not a condition of the doctor, nor of the healer, that people succeed with him. Some may succeed, and some may not. Health is in the hand of Allah; these are only causes. Allah is the One who heals and grants health. A large crowd enters the hospital; some die, some are healed, and some return with their illnesses. It is not a condition of that that everyone be healed. So the point is that what was published in this magazine is a falsehood with no basis. We ask Allah for safety. Yes.
Another questioner:
Shaykh. Yes, a Saudi magazine.
The Shaykh:
Al-Sharq al-Awsat, al-Sharq.
Another questioner:
Shaykh, where is it, Shaykh? Do I recommend it with him?
The Shaykh:
It is published in a forum, no, it is not published in a forum, no, in
Another questioner:
No, the police, what is this magazine with us? Yes, it is, so this crime, this magazine is named. I have it.
The Shaykh:
A day of flogging today. I have it. No, this is a weekly magazine, all of it. We read the article, we read the article, yes.
Another questioner:
Shaykh, and I recommend him to you, Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
I do not know, I do not know.
Another questioner:
I am sick, Shaykh. He recited for me for three days and Allah healed me.
The Shaykh:
If Allah wills.
Another questioner:
It may be over a million riyals that we lost on him.
Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. After that, your eminence, Shaykh Ali al-‘Umrī or al-‘Umayrī? Al-‘Umayrī. Al-‘Umrī. Al-‘Umrī, the imam of the Quba’ Mosque. However, the magazine al-Sharq, which is published in Dammam, issue number 362, dated the 1st of Rabi’ al-Thani, published on page 34 to the end, under the title “Two Stories in the Tale of the Woman and the Shaykh,” words attributed to a woman who claims she visited the shaykh for an illness that exhausted her. She says that he takes the money at the speed of lightning and stuffs it into his pocket until it is completely full. And that he sat between a girl’s chest and her belly, and she mentions words that make the shaykh resemble sorcerers and fraudsters more. The magazine presents the words of this alleged woman in a way that steers the doubt toward the magazine’s goals and intentions. Therefore, Your Eminence the Shaykh, we ask you to read the article in the magazine and give us a comprehensive answer next week, to establish the truth and refute the falsehood. Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. The magazine is attached, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh:
We read it and knew it, and it is a lie and falsehood from this woman. This is a plot by some people with the intention of tarnishing this man and showing that he is not good, but rather a charlatan, just to make people turn away from him. And they came to us after that, and we advised him to publish an article himself to clarify the response to this magazine and the falsehood in it. The man is known to us without a doubt, from the best of people. We ask Allah to help him with the truth and to guide him to the truth. With the large number of people who come to him for recitation and treatment, there must be enemies and rivals. And there must be some patients who do not succeed; he may recite for them and they do not succeed. Then they speak. It is not a condition of the doctor, nor of the healer, that people succeed with him. Some may succeed, and some may not. Health is in the hand of Allah; these are only causes. Allah is the One who heals and grants health. A large crowd enters the hospital; some die, some are healed, and some return with their illnesses. It is not a condition of that that everyone be healed. So the point is that what was published in this magazine is a falsehood with no basis. We ask Allah for safety. Yes.
Another questioner:
Shaykh. Yes, a Saudi magazine.
The Shaykh:
Al-Sharq al-Awsat, al-Sharq.
Another questioner:
Shaykh, where is it, Shaykh? Do I recommend it with him?
The Shaykh:
It is published in a forum, no, it is not published in a forum, no, in
Another questioner:
No, the police, what is this magazine with us? Yes, it is, so this crime, this magazine is named. I have it.
The Shaykh:
A day of flogging today. I have it. No, this is a weekly magazine, all of it. We read the article, we read the article, yes.
Another questioner:
Shaykh, and I recommend him to you, Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
I do not know, I do not know.
Another questioner:
I am sick, Shaykh. He recited for me for three days and Allah healed me.
The Shaykh:
If Allah wills.
Another questioner:
It may be over a million riyals that we lost on him.
Source
ندوات الجامع الكبير مع الأسئلة - ٧٥ — archive.org (56:22)
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