Combining Encouragement and Warning in Sermons
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The questioner:
If you please, Shaykh, I would like to ask about some preachers. This has happened repeatedly when I pray in a certain mosque; the preacher speaks at length about the punishment of the grave and the punishment of Hell, and I notice a neglect of the bliss of the grave and the bliss of Paradise. I wish there were a point where he would speak about this, because I always see that the warning prevails; the warning prevails over the encouragement. So, I am saying to you a word directed to most preachers.
The presenter:
All right, thank you.
The Shaykh:
The sermon, may Allah reward them with good, reminds people, encourages them, and warns them. So, combining the warning with the good news is as it is in the Qur'an. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, warns and gives good news in the Qur'an so that the Muslim is between fear and hope. Preachers should adopt the method of the Qur'an in encouraging and warning, and in mentioning the verses of promise and the verses of threat, so that they do not despair of the mercy of Allah, nor feel safe from the punishment of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. Yes.
If you please, Shaykh, I would like to ask about some preachers. This has happened repeatedly when I pray in a certain mosque; the preacher speaks at length about the punishment of the grave and the punishment of Hell, and I notice a neglect of the bliss of the grave and the bliss of Paradise. I wish there were a point where he would speak about this, because I always see that the warning prevails; the warning prevails over the encouragement. So, I am saying to you a word directed to most preachers.
The presenter:
All right, thank you.
The Shaykh:
The sermon, may Allah reward them with good, reminds people, encourages them, and warns them. So, combining the warning with the good news is as it is in the Qur'an. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, warns and gives good news in the Qur'an so that the Muslim is between fear and hope. Preachers should adopt the method of the Qur'an in encouraging and warning, and in mentioning the verses of promise and the verses of threat, so that they do not despair of the mercy of Allah, nor feel safe from the punishment of Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (060) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1435-07-23] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (14:51)
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