A person known for lying: Is it permissible to call him a hypocrite?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If there is a person known for lying, and this is well-known about him, is it permissible for me to call him a hypocrite?
Answer:
My brother, you heard this. We said this has a characteristic. If he lies, it has a characteristic of connection to hypocrisy. So he is not a pure hypocrite. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If there is a person known for lying, and this is well-known about him, is it permissible for me to call him a hypocrite?
Answer:
My brother, you heard this. We said this has a characteristic. If he lies, it has a characteristic of connection to hypocrisy. So he is not a pure hypocrite. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1363- 4717] شخص معروف بالكذب فهل يجوز تسميته منافقا؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.