What is the error in the outings of the Tabligh group?
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The questioner : Okay, what is the error in this outing?
The Shaykh : The error is what I did not hear!
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : The error is what I did not hear. What did you hear from me just now?
The questioner : I heard that the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not go out.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : ... But they had an environment different from our environment now. I, for example, I am... I am a doctor, I am an engineer, I am a carpenter, I am a blacksmith. You know, everyone goes to the mosque, but... but when we go out for... three days or a week, ten days, we devote ourselves. It is well known that everyone has... So when I devote myself away from my home, because I... the mosque may be that my mind is in... for example... and we are all like this. So when I devote myself for a week... the first thing I benefit from is that I benefit, I learn, from those who know more than me. Then, when we go out, we find people who do not pray. I mean, for example, we talk in the mosque, and someone who has a visit says, "My family does not pray." I... a man who is sixty or seventy years old, sick, why, why do you not pray? He said, "Because I am just..." If we visit them for the sake of Allah and remind them of Allah, at least... and teach them what is obligatory upon them, we remind them...
The Shaykh : Excuse me, excuse me. Scientific research requires a bit of patience. You have now entered into the topic of visiting him and such, which is not this research. Visiting for the sake of Allah is required, and mutual advice is required, and enjoining good is required, and forbidding evil is required. But I told you that we are talking about an issue that "the Tabligh group" is unique in, compared to all the groups. You say that the Tabligh group is not unique in this; everyone who has zeal for Islam, and has some knowledge and some zeal for the Muslims, does what you are describing.
The Shaykh : The error is what I did not hear!
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : The error is what I did not hear. What did you hear from me just now?
The questioner : I heard that the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not go out.
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : ... But they had an environment different from our environment now. I, for example, I am... I am a doctor, I am an engineer, I am a carpenter, I am a blacksmith. You know, everyone goes to the mosque, but... but when we go out for... three days or a week, ten days, we devote ourselves. It is well known that everyone has... So when I devote myself away from my home, because I... the mosque may be that my mind is in... for example... and we are all like this. So when I devote myself for a week... the first thing I benefit from is that I benefit, I learn, from those who know more than me. Then, when we go out, we find people who do not pray. I mean, for example, we talk in the mosque, and someone who has a visit says, "My family does not pray." I... a man who is sixty or seventy years old, sick, why, why do you not pray? He said, "Because I am just..." If we visit them for the sake of Allah and remind them of Allah, at least... and teach them what is obligatory upon them, we remind them...
The Shaykh : Excuse me, excuse me. Scientific research requires a bit of patience. You have now entered into the topic of visiting him and such, which is not this research. Visiting for the sake of Allah is required, and mutual advice is required, and enjoining good is required, and forbidding evil is required. But I told you that we are talking about an issue that "the Tabligh group" is unique in, compared to all the groups. You say that the Tabligh group is not unique in this; everyone who has zeal for Islam, and has some knowledge and some zeal for the Muslims, does what you are describing.
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