Using Softeners in Da'wah
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, some preachers and exhorters use softeners, softeners of the hearts and hadiths, and they refine them. The one speaking about them in matters of calling people to Allah—do you advise listening to the call to Allah through softeners?
Answer:
Yes. What softens the hearts and instills fear in them is the mention of evidence and texts from the Book and the Sunnah. Otherwise, what would soften the hearts? Only the verses and the hadiths. However, he must seek out the authentic hadiths. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, some preachers and exhorters use softeners, softeners of the hearts and hadiths, and they refine them. The one speaking about them in matters of calling people to Allah—do you advise listening to the call to Allah through softeners?
Answer:
Yes. What softens the hearts and instills fear in them is the mention of evidence and texts from the Book and the Sunnah. Otherwise, what would soften the hearts? Only the verses and the hadiths. However, he must seek out the authentic hadiths. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/095 — archive.org (4:20)
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