Attaching oneself to one who does not declare the innovator an innovator
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Regarding the one who does not declare as an innovator the innovator whom the scholars have declared an innovator, and who have declared his methodology an innovation and warned against it: does he attach himself to that person?
Answer:
Yes, the one who does not declare him an innovator attaches himself to him; because he does not see that he is upon an innovation, and that his action is not an innovation, and that the people are mistaken in ruling that he is an innovator. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Regarding the one who does not declare as an innovator the innovator whom the scholars have declared an innovator, and who have declared his methodology an innovation and warned against it: does he attach himself to that person?
Answer:
Yes, the one who does not declare him an innovator attaches himself to him; because he does not see that he is upon an innovation, and that his action is not an innovation, and that the people are mistaken in ruling that he is an innovator. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل ومن أعظم مكايده : ما نصبه للناس من الأنصاب والأزلام — islamhouse.com (56:38)
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