The most important means of warning against sorcery: is it education, or media, or are there other means?
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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. In the view of Shaykh Salih, what is the most important means of warning against shirk (associating partners with Allah) and warning against sorcery: is it education, or is it media? Or are there other means that the Honorable Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan sees?
Answer:
All of these lead to the eradication of shirk and sorcery. First is education, by ensuring that educational curricula include the nullifiers of Islam, including sorcery, and by explaining the danger of sorcery, the danger of shirk with Allah the Exalted, the danger of bid'ah (religious innovations) and sins. One should strive to study tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and the correct creed, including warnings against shirk and sorcery, and the types of bid'ah and superstitions. Then, also, use media to warn against sorcery through messages and writings published among people, and through advice, sermons, lectures, and seminars that make people aware of the danger of shirk and the danger of sorcery, and other bid'ah and superstitions that undermine the creed of Muslims. These matters spread only when ignorance of them becomes widespread, and when the explanation and clarification for people by the scholars of knowledge is neglected and they remain silent about it. The third matter is the implementation of hudud (the fixed Qur'anic punishments) against those who apostatize from their religion through shirk or through the signs of apostasy, and against the sorcerer, by implementing the hudud. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sunan Ibn Majah 2535Sahih (Darussalam) The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sunan Abi Dawud 4352Sahih (Al-Albani)
When the hudud are implemented on those who deserve them, security is achieved for the creed, and the eradication of evil and of what contradicts the creed is achieved. It is obligatory for Muslims to be alert to this matter and to preserve their creed. Islam came to preserve the five necessities: preserving religion, preserving the soul, preserving the intellect, preserving wealth, and preserving lineage.
Custom came with these matters; the Shari'ah legislated for them deterrent hudud that deter those who play with them, and this is evident.
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. In the view of Shaykh Salih, what is the most important means of warning against shirk (associating partners with Allah) and warning against sorcery: is it education, or is it media? Or are there other means that the Honorable Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan sees?
Answer:
All of these lead to the eradication of shirk and sorcery. First is education, by ensuring that educational curricula include the nullifiers of Islam, including sorcery, and by explaining the danger of sorcery, the danger of shirk with Allah the Exalted, the danger of bid'ah (religious innovations) and sins. One should strive to study tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and the correct creed, including warnings against shirk and sorcery, and the types of bid'ah and superstitions. Then, also, use media to warn against sorcery through messages and writings published among people, and through advice, sermons, lectures, and seminars that make people aware of the danger of shirk and the danger of sorcery, and other bid'ah and superstitions that undermine the creed of Muslims. These matters spread only when ignorance of them becomes widespread, and when the explanation and clarification for people by the scholars of knowledge is neglected and they remain silent about it. The third matter is the implementation of hudud (the fixed Qur'anic punishments) against those who apostatize from their religion through shirk or through the signs of apostasy, and against the sorcerer, by implementing the hudud. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Whoever changes his religion, execute him.
من بدل دينه فاقتلوه،The blood of a Muslim man who testifies that there is no god but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah should not be lawfully shed but only for one of three reasons: married fornicator, soul for soul, and one who deserts his religion separating himself from the community.
لا يحل دم امرئ مسلم إلا بإحدى ثلاث الثيب الزاني والنفس بالنفس، والتارك لدينه المفارق للجماعة.When the hudud are implemented on those who deserve them, security is achieved for the creed, and the eradication of evil and of what contradicts the creed is achieved. It is obligatory for Muslims to be alert to this matter and to preserve their creed. Islam came to preserve the five necessities: preserving religion, preserving the soul, preserving the intellect, preserving wealth, and preserving lineage.
Custom came with these matters; the Shari'ah legislated for them deterrent hudud that deter those who play with them, and this is evident.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، أهم الوسائل المحذرة من السحر، أهو التعليم أم الإعلام، أم أن هناك وسائل أخرى؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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