Is it permissible to describe the people of explosions as mujtahids (scholars qualified to derive rulings) who intended good but made a mistake?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says that he did not support the people of explosions, but he says that they are mujtahids who made a mistake in their intention to do good. He does not approve of their actions. Is he like them?
Answer:
Where is the good? They intended good, where is the good? The good is killing Muslims, terrorizing Muslims, and destroying property? This is not good; this is evil. Saying "they intended good" means praising them. This is a place of ijtihad (independent legal reasoning); they exerted effort and made a mistake. They are in a place of ijtihad, but they are not also among the people of ijtihad, because most of them did not learn anything in the first place. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says that he did not support the people of explosions, but he says that they are mujtahids who made a mistake in their intention to do good. He does not approve of their actions. Is he like them?
Answer:
Where is the good? They intended good, where is the good? The good is killing Muslims, terrorizing Muslims, and destroying property? This is not good; this is evil. Saying "they intended good" means praising them. This is a place of ijtihad (independent legal reasoning); they exerted effort and made a mistake. They are in a place of ijtihad, but they are not also among the people of ijtihad, because most of them did not learn anything in the first place. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [380 -560] هل يجوز أن يوصف أهل التفجير بأنهم مجتهدون وأنهم أرادوا الخير ولكن أخطأوا؟ — youtube.com
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