Is it better to display enmity toward the people of innovation or to conceal it in order to reconcile them?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is the enmity between us and the people of innovation to be displayed, or do we not display it to them for the sake of reconciling hearts?
Answer:
Reconciling hearts is appropriate if they accept, if they accept and abandon the bid'ah (religious innovation), yes. But if they are insistent on the bid'ah, then we do not be lenient with them regarding their bid'ah, yes.
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: Is the enmity between us and the people of innovation to be displayed, or do we not display it to them for the sake of reconciling hearts?
Answer:
Reconciling hearts is appropriate if they accept, if they accept and abandon the bid'ah (religious innovation), yes. But if they are insistent on the bid'ah, then we do not be lenient with them regarding their bid'ah, yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [1607- 4717] هل الأفضل إظهار العداوة لأهل البدع أم إخفاؤها تأليفاً لهم ؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.