Calling a person who commits sins to scholarly lessons or to the preachers
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: I want to bring a friend of mine who is an open sinner and uses some narcotics to scholarly lessons, but some students of knowledge told me that scholarly lessons are not suitable for someone like this, and that I should take him to the preachers instead. Is what they said correct?
Answer:
Go to the preachers and answer his call to the lessons; he combines them. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: I want to bring a friend of mine who is an open sinner and uses some narcotics to scholarly lessons, but some students of knowledge told me that scholarly lessons are not suitable for someone like this, and that I should take him to the preachers instead. Is what they said correct?
Answer:
Go to the preachers and answer his call to the lessons; he combines them. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل وأما النوع الثاني من الفتنة : ففتنة الشهوات — islamhouse.com (1:03:41)
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