What is the ruling on combining the seclusion you mentioned with the saying of Allah the Exalted: “They said: ‘An excuse to your Lord’” (the verse)?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: The distinction you mentioned (may Allah preserve you) regarding seclusion from people has confused me, in light of the saying of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He:[Al-A'raf 7:164] (the verse).
Answer:
What is this seclusion? “An excuse to your Lord” — what is this seclusion? It is in the forbidding of evil; forbidding evil from people who are committing it. As for seclusion and mixing, that is another matter. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: The distinction you mentioned (may Allah preserve you) regarding seclusion from people has confused me, in light of the saying of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He:
they [the advisors] said, "To be absolved before your Lord
قَالُوا مَعْذِرَةً إِلَىٰ رَبِّكُمْAnswer:
What is this seclusion? “An excuse to your Lord” — what is this seclusion? It is in the forbidding of evil; forbidding evil from people who are committing it. As for seclusion and mixing, that is another matter. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [384 -521] أشكل علي الجمع حول ما ذكرتموه عن العزلة مع قوله تعالى: ﴿قالوا معذرة إلى ربكم﴾ الآية؟ — youtube.com
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