When does a person become an innovator?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner asks: When does a person become an innovator? And what is the criterion for religious innovation (bid'ah)?
Answer:
One becomes an innovator if he does something to draw near to Allah for which there is no evidence from the Book or the Sunnah. If he invents a form of worship for which there is no evidence from the Book or the Sunnah, that is bid'ah (religious innovation). He said:Mishkat al-Masabih 140Muttafaqun 'alayh (Zubair `Aliza'i) with him. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner asks: When does a person become an innovator? And what is the criterion for religious innovation (bid'ah)?
Answer:
One becomes an innovator if he does something to draw near to Allah for which there is no evidence from the Book or the Sunnah. If he invents a form of worship for which there is no evidence from the Book or the Sunnah, that is bid'ah (religious innovation). He said:
God’s messenger as saying, “If anyone introduces into this affair of ours anything which does not belong to it, it is
صلى الله عليه وسلم من أحدث في أمرنا هذا ما ليس منه فهو
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2143- 4717] متى يكون الشخص مبتدعا؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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