The Ruling on Sitting with the People of Innovation
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
It is mentioned regarding the Salaf (the earliest generations) that they forbade sitting with the people of innovation (bid'ah) and demanded boycotting them. What is meant by them? Are they the people of bid'ah that entails disbelief, or those that do not?
Answer:
All of them, but the bid'ah that entails disbelief is more severe. Otherwise, all innovators are to be boycotted; one does not sit with them, nor seek their company, until they abandon the bid'ah and repent to Allah from it. This serves as a deterrent for them and protects the individual from being influenced by them and their bid'ah, for it is like a contagious disease. Just as one keeps away from a contagious disease for the sake of prevention, so too here. Yes.
It is mentioned regarding the Salaf (the earliest generations) that they forbade sitting with the people of innovation (bid'ah) and demanded boycotting them. What is meant by them? Are they the people of bid'ah that entails disbelief, or those that do not?
Answer:
All of them, but the bid'ah that entails disbelief is more severe. Otherwise, all innovators are to be boycotted; one does not sit with them, nor seek their company, until they abandon the bid'ah and repent to Allah from it. This serves as a deterrent for them and protects the individual from being influenced by them and their bid'ah, for it is like a contagious disease. Just as one keeps away from a contagious disease for the sake of prevention, so too here. Yes.
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 28 — archive.org (1:17:06)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.