Phrase: The more one’s knowledge, the less one’s forbidding of evil
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: A phrase is spreading among students of knowledge, which is that the more one’s knowledge, the less one’s forbidding of evil. Yes, the less one’s forbidding of evil.
The Shaykh:
This is a mistake. The more one’s knowledge, the more one’s forbidding of evil, because knowledge increases one’s forbidding of evil and enjoining of good. Knowledge does not come except with good. This means, according to his statement, that knowledge brought evil, which is the absence of forbidding evil. This is a false statement. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Unless his intention is that the more one’s knowledge of the evil matters, if one’s knowledge of the evil matters increases, one might become lenient. But if his intention is religious knowledge, then this is a mistake.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: A phrase is spreading among students of knowledge, which is that the more one’s knowledge, the less one’s forbidding of evil. Yes, the less one’s forbidding of evil.
The Shaykh:
This is a mistake. The more one’s knowledge, the more one’s forbidding of evil, because knowledge increases one’s forbidding of evil and enjoining of good. Knowledge does not come except with good. This means, according to his statement, that knowledge brought evil, which is the absence of forbidding evil. This is a false statement. Yes.
The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Unless his intention is that the more one’s knowledge of the evil matters, if one’s knowledge of the evil matters increases, one might become lenient. But if his intention is religious knowledge, then this is a mistake.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل في أن لذة النظر إلى وجه الله يوم القيامة تابعة للتلذذ بمعرفته ومحبته في الدنيا — islamhouse.com (1:07:01)
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