Harshness toward disbelievers and hypocrites, and gentleness
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The questioner:
Your Eminence, the father. The questioner says: In His saying, the Exalted:[At-Tawbah 9:73], he asks: Does this contradict His saying, peace and blessings be upon him: “Gentleness is not found in anything except that it adorns it” Sahih Muslim 2594a?
The Shaykh:
Everything has its place. Violence, this violence, is not applicable. But backbiting a disbeliever, backbiting and harshness toward a disbeliever, are in their place, as is the case with a hypocrite: backbiting and harshness toward the hypocrite, to ward off his evil. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
The questioner:
Your Eminence, father, the questioner says: In the saying of Allah the Exalted
The Shaykh:
Yes, they have become harsh, so it is necessary to deter them. Yes.
Your Eminence, the father. The questioner says: In His saying, the Exalted:
O Prophet, fight against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and be harsh upon them
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ جَاهِدِ الْكُفَّارَ وَالْمُنَافِقِينَ وَاغْلُظْ عَلَيْهِمْin anything but that it adds to its beauty and it is not withdrawn from anything but it makes it defective
فِي شَىْءٍ إِلاَّ زَانَهُ وَلاَ يُنْزَعُ مِنْ شَىْءٍ إِلاَّ شَانَهُThe Shaykh:
Everything has its place. Violence, this violence, is not applicable. But backbiting a disbeliever, backbiting and harshness toward a disbeliever, are in their place, as is the case with a hypocrite: backbiting and harshness toward the hypocrite, to ward off his evil. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
The questioner:
Your Eminence, father, the questioner says: In the saying of Allah the Exalted
The Shaykh:
Yes, they have become harsh, so it is necessary to deter them. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 27 — youtube.com (1:03:47)
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