The Ruling on Backbiting the Open Sinner and Supplication for Occurrences in Prayer
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The questioner : Some of them ask, and a hadith was mentioned: "There is no backbiting of the open sinner."
The Shaykh : The hadith "There is no backbiting of the open sinner" is not authentic in its chain of narration, though its meaning may be correct in some cases. If a Muslim backbites an open sinner with the intention of disciplining him and making him desist from his open sinfulness and lewdness, it is permissible; otherwise, it is not.
The questioner : That is, regarding the current conditions in our present situation, do they warrant the supplication for occurrences in every prayer, all five prayers?
The Shaykh : If the imam knows that he will be supplicating, it is obligatory for him to do so. By "knows that he will be supplicating," I mean that it will not cause a problem between him and the Shari'ah, such that he supports the oppressor over the oppressed rather than the oppressed over the oppressor. Also, from another angle, he does not stir up fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) between him and some of the worshippers, most of whom are dominated today by unbridled emotions that are restrained by neither the Shari'ah nor reason. Do you understand me?
The questioner : I understood you well.
The Shaykh : Bring up another one.
The questioner : We will stay with the same question, if Allah wills, but spread out.
The Shaykh : Until we see.
The questioner : Okay, he says to you: If we start this supplication with "O Allah, guide us among those You have guided, and grant us well-being among those You have granted well-being," or does he supplicate directly and get into the matter?
The Shaykh : This is the supplication of qunut, and it has no connection to the supplication for an occurrence.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Rather, if one must start with something from the transmitted texts, he starts with the qunut of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, which the Hanafis use in the qunut of witr. Do you know it?
The questioner : Which is: "O Allah, we seek Your help and we seek Your guidance."
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : I mean, in the case of an occurrence, it would be.
The Shaykh : Yes, this is for an occurrence. And for the benefit, we say: Among the wonderful paradoxes we observe in some schools of jurisprudence.
The Shaykh : The hadith "There is no backbiting of the open sinner" is not authentic in its chain of narration, though its meaning may be correct in some cases. If a Muslim backbites an open sinner with the intention of disciplining him and making him desist from his open sinfulness and lewdness, it is permissible; otherwise, it is not.
The questioner : That is, regarding the current conditions in our present situation, do they warrant the supplication for occurrences in every prayer, all five prayers?
The Shaykh : If the imam knows that he will be supplicating, it is obligatory for him to do so. By "knows that he will be supplicating," I mean that it will not cause a problem between him and the Shari'ah, such that he supports the oppressor over the oppressed rather than the oppressed over the oppressor. Also, from another angle, he does not stir up fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) between him and some of the worshippers, most of whom are dominated today by unbridled emotions that are restrained by neither the Shari'ah nor reason. Do you understand me?
The questioner : I understood you well.
The Shaykh : Bring up another one.
The questioner : We will stay with the same question, if Allah wills, but spread out.
The Shaykh : Until we see.
The questioner : Okay, he says to you: If we start this supplication with "O Allah, guide us among those You have guided, and grant us well-being among those You have granted well-being," or does he supplicate directly and get into the matter?
The Shaykh : This is the supplication of qunut, and it has no connection to the supplication for an occurrence.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Rather, if one must start with something from the transmitted texts, he starts with the qunut of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, which the Hanafis use in the qunut of witr. Do you know it?
The questioner : Which is: "O Allah, we seek Your help and we seek Your guidance."
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : I mean, in the case of an occurrence, it would be.
The Shaykh : Yes, this is for an occurrence. And for the benefit, we say: Among the wonderful paradoxes we observe in some schools of jurisprudence.
Source
سلسلة الهدى والنور، رقم 909 في قناة «تسجيلات الإمام الألباني - محمد أبو ليلى الأثري» — youtube.com (15:00)
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