What is your advice for the one who distributes tapes against Shaykh Salman al-Oudah in the House of Allah the Sacred?
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Question:
What is your advice for the one who distributes tapes against Shaykh Sulayman al-Oudah in the House of Allah the Sacred, knowing that he is currently in the mosque?
Answer:
It is not permissible. It is obligatory to cooperate in promoting good and leaving evil with Shaykh Salman al-Oudah, with Shaykh Safar, with Shaykh 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Tayyir, with Shaykh Rabi', with Shaykh Muhammad Aaman, all the callers, all the scholars, Shaykh Sa'd al-Wazan, all the callers. It is obligatory to cooperate with them in good, to assist in good, and to supplicate for them for success and guidance. If something is unclear from the lecture, or from Shaykh Safar, or from Shaykh Rabi', or from Shaykh Muhammad Aaman, or from Shaykh Salih al-Wazan, or from me, or from anyone else, he should ask them about what is unclear to him with kind words and good manner, not with violence, harshness, or bad suspicion. He should ask them about what is unclear to them, and it is obligatory for them to clarify and explain with evidence what they have. The truth is the believer's lost property; the truth is the best of things. When he finds it, he takes it, so it is a favor from Allah. Allah says, Glorified and Exalted is He, in His great Book, which is the reference:[An-Nisa 4:59] If it were not for the fact that the Qur'an is full and the Sunnah is full, there would be no command to return to them. The Qur'an is sufficient, and the Sunnah is sufficient. Therefore, Allah commanded returning to them, for in them is sufficiency and guidance. And whatever they differ about, they should refer to Allah. It is not permissible to be partisan for Zayd or 'Amr. It is obligatory for the students of knowledge, for the scholars, and for the general believing people to be sincere, to seek the truth, and not to be repelled by so-and-so or so-and-so. They should be repelled by what Allah has forbidden, they should be repelled by sins, and they should beware of sins: from zina, from undutifulness to parents, from riba (usury or interest), from backbiting, from talebearing, from abandoning the prayer, from abandoning the congregational prayer, and from other such sins.
As for the scholars and callers, it is obligatory to encourage people to listen to the benefit from the tapes, and from other than the tapes, from the lectures, from the seminars. And if something is unclear to him, he asks. He asks the owner of the tape, the owner of the seminar, the owner of the sermon, the owner of the lecture: What is the meaning of Salman's words? What is the meaning of so-and-so's words? What is the meaning of Muhammad Aaman's words? What is the meaning of Rabi's words? What is the meaning of Ibn Baz's words? What is the meaning of Salih al-Fawzan's words? What is the meaning?
He asks about what is unclear to him, and he knows what it means, but with a good intention, not with the intention of arguing and disputing, but with a good intention, intending knowledge, intending benefit, with good manner. And the teacher, if Allah wills, Allah will guide him if he intends good.
What is your advice for the one who distributes tapes against Shaykh Sulayman al-Oudah in the House of Allah the Sacred, knowing that he is currently in the mosque?
Answer:
It is not permissible. It is obligatory to cooperate in promoting good and leaving evil with Shaykh Salman al-Oudah, with Shaykh Safar, with Shaykh 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Tayyir, with Shaykh Rabi', with Shaykh Muhammad Aaman, all the callers, all the scholars, Shaykh Sa'd al-Wazan, all the callers. It is obligatory to cooperate with them in good, to assist in good, and to supplicate for them for success and guidance. If something is unclear from the lecture, or from Shaykh Safar, or from Shaykh Rabi', or from Shaykh Muhammad Aaman, or from Shaykh Salih al-Wazan, or from me, or from anyone else, he should ask them about what is unclear to him with kind words and good manner, not with violence, harshness, or bad suspicion. He should ask them about what is unclear to them, and it is obligatory for them to clarify and explain with evidence what they have. The truth is the believer's lost property; the truth is the best of things. When he finds it, he takes it, so it is a favor from Allah. Allah says, Glorified and Exalted is He, in His great Book, which is the reference:
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فَإِن تَنَازَعْتُمْ فِيAs for the scholars and callers, it is obligatory to encourage people to listen to the benefit from the tapes, and from other than the tapes, from the lectures, from the seminars. And if something is unclear to him, he asks. He asks the owner of the tape, the owner of the seminar, the owner of the sermon, the owner of the lecture: What is the meaning of Salman's words? What is the meaning of so-and-so's words? What is the meaning of Muhammad Aaman's words? What is the meaning of Rabi's words? What is the meaning of Ibn Baz's words? What is the meaning of Salih al-Fawzan's words? What is the meaning?
He asks about what is unclear to him, and he knows what it means, but with a good intention, not with the intention of arguing and disputing, but with a good intention, intending knowledge, intending benefit, with good manner. And the teacher, if Allah wills, Allah will guide him if he intends good.
Source
قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 176 ما نصيحتكم لمن يوزع الشرائط ضد الشيخ سلمان العودة في بيت الله الحرام للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com
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