Dividing bid'ah (religious innovation) into rulings of obligation, or into good and bad
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is it correct to divide bid'ah (religious innovation) according to the five rulings of obligation, or to divide it into good and bad?
Answer:
What is the evidence for this division? The Messenger did not divide it, as he said: and he did not divide it.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is it correct to divide bid'ah (religious innovation) according to the five rulings of obligation, or to divide it into good and bad?
Answer:
What is the evidence for this division? The Messenger did not divide it, as he said:
Every bid'ah is misguidance,
كل بدعة ضلالة،
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، بداية من الوجه السابع : أن اعتماد العبد على المخلوق وتوكله عليه يوجب له الضرر من جهته هو ولا بد — islamhouse.com (1:11:40)
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