Is it prescribed to forbid evil in matters of independent legal reasoning?
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The questioner : Yes. Take the example of the fatal flaw in a piece of wood: the lack of warning about the knots in the wood.
The Shaykh : Or should one remain silent?
The questioner : I mean the difficulty in some matters where there is scholarly disagreement.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : I mean the hijab, the hijab.
The Shaykh : Because the matter you are mentioning is not our matter. Our matter is when a person does something and it is not forbidden, so we say he considers it permissible. As for this matter, which is forbidding evil in matters of independent legal reasoning, that is another matter. Is it obligatory for a person to forbid another person whom he knows did it based on independent legal reasoning or following a scholar in his location? We hold that it is not obligatory for him to forbid it, as long as he knows that this is what his independent legal reasoning led him to, or that he was following someone who considers it permissible. Yes, he may advise him in the spirit of advice, but to forbid it in the spirit of prohibition and reprimand, that is not permissible.
The Shaykh : Or should one remain silent?
The questioner : I mean the difficulty in some matters where there is scholarly disagreement.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : I mean the hijab, the hijab.
The Shaykh : Because the matter you are mentioning is not our matter. Our matter is when a person does something and it is not forbidden, so we say he considers it permissible. As for this matter, which is forbidding evil in matters of independent legal reasoning, that is another matter. Is it obligatory for a person to forbid another person whom he knows did it based on independent legal reasoning or following a scholar in his location? We hold that it is not obligatory for him to forbid it, as long as he knows that this is what his independent legal reasoning led him to, or that he was following someone who considers it permissible. Yes, he may advise him in the spirit of advice, but to forbid it in the spirit of prohibition and reprimand, that is not permissible.
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قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 4121 - 4600 هل يشرع الإنكار في المسائل الاجتهادية؟ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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