Is it permissible to judge the intention of any person, such as saying: he does this in order to draw people's attention to himself or out of a love of showing off?
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The student: My Shaykh ... ?
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
Salman al-Oudah : ... ... .
The student: My Shaykh, consider that he means he is saying that these young men, or this young man, does this for the sake of provocation and to draw people's attention.
The Shaykh: Fame, I mean.
The student: Yes, and this is a hidden desire; so here, is it permissible to judge the intention or such?
The Shaykh: No, it is not permissible, just as we say: it is not permissible for us to judge him by his intention; likewise, we say: it is not permissible for him to judge others by their intentions.
The student: Allah is the Greatest!
The Shaykh: Rather, the truth, as we said yesterday: it is obligatory to encourage these young men to revive the Sunnah and kill off religious innovations, and there is no objection to drawing attention to the fact that this should be done with wisdom and good exhortation, not that this discouragement should be done and they should be attributed with doing it out of a love of showing off, and "a love of showing off cuts off showing off" as it is said.
The student: My Shaykh, here is actually a point: our brother Khalid, from these matters that "Salman" mentions, he considers it unlikely that a person who adopts the Salafi methodology would utter such words, have you seen, my Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: I mean, a person who adopts the Salafi methodology, if he wants to correct a mistake in one of his brothers, he does not correct it in this way, as if—Allah knows best—I do not know ... so we hear from him, as if this one who is being held accountable is being held accountable for "Salman's" speech and it is said: his methodology is not the Salafi methodology, so what is your opinion, Abu Muhammad?
The student: Yes, this is it, my Shaykh, especially since these evidences and this speech he mentioned on this tape are repeated on many of his tapes, and perhaps the tape "Excess in Details," if Allah—Blessed and Exalted is He—enables you to hear it, and this is one of his last tapes; he speaks in the same manner, in the same manner, and I sent you tapes in the envelope on which I wrote "Abdullah al-Dosari."
The Shaykh: Look at the tapes ... .
The Shaykh: Go ahead.
Salman al-Oudah : ... ... .
The student: My Shaykh, consider that he means he is saying that these young men, or this young man, does this for the sake of provocation and to draw people's attention.
The Shaykh: Fame, I mean.
The student: Yes, and this is a hidden desire; so here, is it permissible to judge the intention or such?
The Shaykh: No, it is not permissible, just as we say: it is not permissible for us to judge him by his intention; likewise, we say: it is not permissible for him to judge others by their intentions.
The student: Allah is the Greatest!
The Shaykh: Rather, the truth, as we said yesterday: it is obligatory to encourage these young men to revive the Sunnah and kill off religious innovations, and there is no objection to drawing attention to the fact that this should be done with wisdom and good exhortation, not that this discouragement should be done and they should be attributed with doing it out of a love of showing off, and "a love of showing off cuts off showing off" as it is said.
The student: My Shaykh, here is actually a point: our brother Khalid, from these matters that "Salman" mentions, he considers it unlikely that a person who adopts the Salafi methodology would utter such words, have you seen, my Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: I mean, a person who adopts the Salafi methodology, if he wants to correct a mistake in one of his brothers, he does not correct it in this way, as if—Allah knows best—I do not know ... so we hear from him, as if this one who is being held accountable is being held accountable for "Salman's" speech and it is said: his methodology is not the Salafi methodology, so what is your opinion, Abu Muhammad?
The student: Yes, this is it, my Shaykh, especially since these evidences and this speech he mentioned on this tape are repeated on many of his tapes, and perhaps the tape "Excess in Details," if Allah—Blessed and Exalted is He—enables you to hear it, and this is one of his last tapes; he speaks in the same manner, in the same manner, and I sent you tapes in the envelope on which I wrote "Abdullah al-Dosari."
The Shaykh: Look at the tapes ... .
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