Answer to Students' Idle Questions
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah love you. I am a teacher in an elementary school, and one of the students asked me some problematic questions: Why did a man come out of clay? The other question was: A man is a disbeliever, then he becomes insane, what will be his fate in the Hereafter? How do we answer him on these questions?
Answer:
Do not answer him. These are idle questions with no benefit behind them. The answer to such a question is silence. If a fool speaks, do not answer him; silence is better than answering him. This is what he is asked about: his purity, his prayer, and the matters for which he is accountable on the Day of Resurrection. Will Allah ask you on the Day of Resurrection, "Why did He create Adam from clay?" Or will He ask you, "If a disbeliever dies, or if a disbeliever becomes insane and dies, what is his fate?" Did Allah ask you about this? He asks you about the matters of your prayer, the matters of your worship, and the matters of your creed. This is what you are asked about on the Day of Resurrection. Yes.
Do not answer such questions, never. Do not open the door for students to ask such questions. Educate them not to ask such questions. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah love you. I am a teacher in an elementary school, and one of the students asked me some problematic questions: Why did a man come out of clay? The other question was: A man is a disbeliever, then he becomes insane, what will be his fate in the Hereafter? How do we answer him on these questions?
Answer:
Do not answer him. These are idle questions with no benefit behind them. The answer to such a question is silence. If a fool speaks, do not answer him; silence is better than answering him. This is what he is asked about: his purity, his prayer, and the matters for which he is accountable on the Day of Resurrection. Will Allah ask you on the Day of Resurrection, "Why did He create Adam from clay?" Or will He ask you, "If a disbeliever dies, or if a disbeliever becomes insane and dies, what is his fate?" Did Allah ask you about this? He asks you about the matters of your prayer, the matters of your worship, and the matters of your creed. This is what you are asked about on the Day of Resurrection. Yes.
Do not answer such questions, never. Do not open the door for students to ask such questions. Educate them not to ask such questions. Yes.
Source
شرح لمعة الاعتقاد [ صالح الفوزان ]، بداية من قوله : وقال النبي - صلى الله عليه وسلم - لحصين — islamhouse.com (1:03:08)
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