The intended meaning of accommodating the situation of some rulers who combined piety with cowardice and stinginess in reality
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Question : And they may be excused in what they exerted effort in regarding the possibilities of the Hereafter. You mentioned that this is an accommodation to the reality.
Answer : That is, one looks at the person's situation. And likewise, one looks at the matter and situation of every person. Is he truly interpreting the text? And is this what led him to his independent legal reasoning? And did he exert his utmost effort and do what he was able to do to reach the truth, but he did not reach anything other than this? Or is he a man, may Allah protect us from that, who is tyrannical in his opinion and thought and does not see anything as correct?
Answer : That is, one looks at the person's situation. And likewise, one looks at the matter and situation of every person. Is he truly interpreting the text? And is this what led him to his independent legal reasoning? And did he exert his utmost effort and do what he was able to do to reach the truth, but he did not reach anything other than this? Or is he a man, may Allah protect us from that, who is tyrannical in his opinion and thought and does not see anything as correct?
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 238- المراد بتنزيل حال بعض السلاطين الذين جمعوا بين التقوى وبين الجبن والبخل على الواقع - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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