Advice to Preachers on Dealing with Innovators
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Question:
We conclude this session with a question from one of the brothers. He asks: What does Shaykh Salih advise preachers regarding their stance toward innovators? We ask for your guidance.
Answer:
Yes, they have a great obligation to clarify religious innovations (bid'ah) and warn people against them. Before that, they must clarify major and minor shirk (associating partners with Allah) and warn against it. They must teach people the correct creed and the correct acts of worship, and guide them. This is the affair of religion. Da'wah (calling others to Islam) is not standing up and delivering a lecture or a speech and being done with it. No, that is not da'wah. Da'wah is clarifying things for people and teaching them. You teach them what they do not know. You clarify the errors they fall into. You warn them against them.
We conclude this session with a question from one of the brothers. He asks: What does Shaykh Salih advise preachers regarding their stance toward innovators? We ask for your guidance.
Answer:
Yes, they have a great obligation to clarify religious innovations (bid'ah) and warn people against them. Before that, they must clarify major and minor shirk (associating partners with Allah) and warn against it. They must teach people the correct creed and the correct acts of worship, and guide them. This is the affair of religion. Da'wah (calling others to Islam) is not standing up and delivering a lecture or a speech and being done with it. No, that is not da'wah. Da'wah is clarifying things for people and teaching them. You teach them what they do not know. You clarify the errors they fall into. You warn them against them.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/089 — archive.org (15:03)
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