Warning Against Misleading Fatwas
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Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner says: Muftis have become numerous on satellite channels, and we have come to hear fatwas that we did not hear from our scholars, either fatwas that are lax, or fatwas that reject the rulers. What is your guidance for one who hears such things?
Answer:
Our guidance is that you should warn people against these channels and these fatwas, and against looking into them, except for one who refutes them and demonstrates their invalidity. As for looking into them without refuting them and responding to them, that is not permissible, because they may affect him and may undermine his faith, especially if one who pretends to knowledge and pretends to reason enters into them, for that affects him even more. So it is a trial without a doubt. Yes.
May Allah reward you. The questioner says: Muftis have become numerous on satellite channels, and we have come to hear fatwas that we did not hear from our scholars, either fatwas that are lax, or fatwas that reject the rulers. What is your guidance for one who hears such things?
Answer:
Our guidance is that you should warn people against these channels and these fatwas, and against looking into them, except for one who refutes them and demonstrates their invalidity. As for looking into them without refuting them and responding to them, that is not permissible, because they may affect him and may undermine his faith, especially if one who pretends to knowledge and pretends to reason enters into them, for that affects him even more. So it is a trial without a doubt. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [520] التحذير من الفتاوى المضللة - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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