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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Breaking the idols that are being sold

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If one sees idols being sold, is it permissible for him to break them directly?

Answer:
No, he should go to the Committee for Promoting Virtue and Forbidding Vice and inform them about them. Yes.
Source شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل وكذلك كان أساطينهم ومتقدموهم العارفون فيهم معظمين للرسل والشرائع — islamhouse.com (1:04:04)

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