The Ruling on Judging People Without Knowledge
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Question:
This questioner says: What is the ruling of the Shari'ah, in your view, regarding those individuals who judge people and condemn them without knowledge?
Answer:
The Shaykh: Their reckoning is with Allah. The one who occupies himself with the faults of others forgets his own faults; he is wretched, may Allah protect us from that. It is obligatory for a person to occupy himself with his own faults, for that will keep him from the faults of others, so there is no[An-Najm 53:32] in him [An-Nisa 4:49]. It is obligatory for a person to start with himself [Al-Baqarah 2:44]? Yes.
This questioner says: What is the ruling of the Shari'ah, in your view, regarding those individuals who judge people and condemn them without knowledge?
Answer:
The Shaykh: Their reckoning is with Allah. The one who occupies himself with the faults of others forgets his own faults; he is wretched, may Allah protect us from that. It is obligatory for a person to occupy himself with his own faults, for that will keep him from the faults of others, so there is no
claim yourselves to be pure; He is most knowing
تُزَكُّوا أَنفُسَكُمْ هُوَ أَعْلَمُHave you not seen those who claim themselves to be pure? Rather, Allah purifies whom He wills, and injustice is not done to them, [even] as much as a thread [inside a date seed].
أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ يُزَكُّونَ أَنفُسَهُم بَلِ اللَّهُ يُزَكِّي مَن يَشَاءُ وَلَا يُظْلَمُونَ فَتِيلًاDo you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?
أَتَأْمُرُونَ النَّاسَ بِالْبِرِّ وَتَنسَوْنَ أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ تَتْلُونَ الْكِتَابَ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/266 — archive.org (4:40)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.