Sitting with People of Sin in the Workplace
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Question:
The questioner says: A person is an employee, and may Allah guide them, they are exposed to the fact that the martyr’s prayer is accepted, and this has always affected him. He was in the office and did not sit there. Is it permissible to sit without sitting with them, and sit in the office, or sit in the office without sitting with them?
Answer:
If sitting with them is with the hope of guiding them and repeating advice to them, that is a good thing. But if sitting with them is for the sake of their company and leaving off the prohibition of their evil, then you should not sit with them. That is, merely sitting without prohibiting their evil, without clarifying it to them, and without calling them to the truth, but rather withdrawing from them and being at ease with them while they are in this state, that is not something you should do.
The questioner says: A person is an employee, and may Allah guide them, they are exposed to the fact that the martyr’s prayer is accepted, and this has always affected him. He was in the office and did not sit there. Is it permissible to sit without sitting with them, and sit in the office, or sit in the office without sitting with them?
Answer:
If sitting with them is with the hope of guiding them and repeating advice to them, that is a good thing. But if sitting with them is for the sake of their company and leaving off the prohibition of their evil, then you should not sit with them. That is, merely sitting without prohibiting their evil, without clarifying it to them, and without calling them to the truth, but rather withdrawing from them and being at ease with them while they are in this state, that is not something you should do.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 13/7 شرح الأصول الثلاثة / صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:18:31)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.
