The ruling on women going out with the Tablighi Jamaat
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The Tablighi Jamaat has spread among us in Kuwait. They preach to men, and women even more so than men, by going out to all countries. They set a short duration: they train the woman for three days, then a week, and likewise in the Gulf, meaning two weeks. After that, they move her to a higher stage, which is the stage of India and Pakistan, so that the woman trains, by their claim, in calling to Allah the Exalted for forty days.And the question is: It was also reported to you that one of the brothers comes here to al-Qassim and says: Do you see the permissibility of going out with women? Is this correct? We want a word: Are they a group of truth, and one goes out with them and strives with them in calling to Allah the Exalted, and one spends his wealth and time?
As for what was attributed to me that I say: Even women going out, this is not correct. I have not known that women go out with the Tablighi Jamaat except from you now. As for the group, no one doubts that they have an impact in reforming people. How many disbelievers have embraced Islam! And how many open sinners have been guided! This is a known thing. But ignorance prevails among them; they have no students of knowledge or scholars. Also, going to other countries of the non-Arabs, like Pakistan or others, we do not see traveling there. And we do not see a hajj except to the House of Allah the Sacred. This annual gathering where more than a million gather is like a hajj, and we do not see this. We see that the Tablighi Jamaat should be in their places, calling to Allah the Mighty and Majestic in the villages and cities. We also see that it is obligatory for students of knowledge to go out with them to correct their methodology and fix the errors they are upon, which may be from anyone among people. So I am not one of those who blame them absolutely, nor one of those who praise them absolutely. But I see that there is good in the people, and that Allah has benefited people greatly through them. And I do not know, up to this moment, that anyone among people has had an impact, especially among the common people, like the impact these people have had.
As for what was attributed to me that I say: Even women going out, this is not correct. I have not known that women go out with the Tablighi Jamaat except from you now. As for the group, no one doubts that they have an impact in reforming people. How many disbelievers have embraced Islam! And how many open sinners have been guided! This is a known thing. But ignorance prevails among them; they have no students of knowledge or scholars. Also, going to other countries of the non-Arabs, like Pakistan or others, we do not see traveling there. And we do not see a hajj except to the House of Allah the Sacred. This annual gathering where more than a million gather is like a hajj, and we do not see this. We see that the Tablighi Jamaat should be in their places, calling to Allah the Mighty and Majestic in the villages and cities. We also see that it is obligatory for students of knowledge to go out with them to correct their methodology and fix the errors they are upon, which may be from anyone among people. So I am not one of those who blame them absolutely, nor one of those who praise them absolutely. But I see that there is good in the people, and that Allah has benefited people greatly through them. And I do not know, up to this moment, that anyone among people has had an impact, especially among the common people, like the impact these people have had.