The Statement on the Innovator in the Religion and the One Who Commits Innovation?
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The questioner : The Statement on the Innovator in the Religion and the One Who Commits Innovation?
The Shaykh : The innovator is the one who = -- and upon you be peace, the mercy of Allah, and His blessings -- = is the one who introduces ... or introduces an action that contradicts the religion, so the term "innovator" includes the one who commits religious innovation, and includes the one who contradicts the Shari'ah in any contradiction.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : ... here is where we should pause ... every innovator falls under this hadith, indeed under the general scope of the hadiths that we always and forever mention regarding the prohibition of introducing innovations in the religion, we must know that any ruling of the Shari'ah, whether the introduction means committing religious innovation, or whether the introduction means contradicting the Shari'ah; this or that has one of two states; either we acknowledge his innovation or his objectives in the broadest and most inclusive sense, in which case he is a Muslim who commits sins, or he independently introduces in the religion in the linguistic sense, either to create ... or to commit what is not permissible by the Shari'ah, ... and the like, if he considers any of this introduction permissible in his heart or by the ruling of acting upon it, here lies the crux of the matter in the subject; so as for the one who innovates in the general sense, we cannot say that he intended to innovate ... that this is a matter ... , but we judge him by the apparent ...; because he introduced and committed ...; at that time, if he commits a contradiction of the Shari'ah, we can deal with it; but the difference between religious innovation in the sense ... in the innovation by which one seeks nearness to Allah, and introduction in the sense ... of a known evil in the Shari'ah, as for the first introduction, it is religious innovation ... as for the one who contradicts by introduction in the second sense, it is not possible that ... ... ... ... .
The Shaykh : The innovator is the one who = -- and upon you be peace, the mercy of Allah, and His blessings -- = is the one who introduces ... or introduces an action that contradicts the religion, so the term "innovator" includes the one who commits religious innovation, and includes the one who contradicts the Shari'ah in any contradiction.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : ... here is where we should pause ... every innovator falls under this hadith, indeed under the general scope of the hadiths that we always and forever mention regarding the prohibition of introducing innovations in the religion, we must know that any ruling of the Shari'ah, whether the introduction means committing religious innovation, or whether the introduction means contradicting the Shari'ah; this or that has one of two states; either we acknowledge his innovation or his objectives in the broadest and most inclusive sense, in which case he is a Muslim who commits sins, or he independently introduces in the religion in the linguistic sense, either to create ... or to commit what is not permissible by the Shari'ah, ... and the like, if he considers any of this introduction permissible in his heart or by the ruling of acting upon it, here lies the crux of the matter in the subject; so as for the one who innovates in the general sense, we cannot say that he intended to innovate ... that this is a matter ... , but we judge him by the apparent ...; because he introduced and committed ...; at that time, if he commits a contradiction of the Shari'ah, we can deal with it; but the difference between religious innovation in the sense ... in the innovation by which one seeks nearness to Allah, and introduction in the sense ... of a known evil in the Shari'ah, as for the first introduction, it is religious innovation ... as for the one who contradicts by introduction in the second sense, it is not possible that ... ... ... ... .
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