The ruling on setting up a tent in front of the tents of the innovators to divert people from innovation
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It is well known to us that on the night of the Mawlid, or a few days before it, they set up tents. Likewise, every group of the Sufi paths has a tent, where they remember Allah, dance, and so on.Then there is also a tent for the people of the Sunnah, meaning: They speak in it,And explaining the command and the prohibition, meaning: saying that obedience to Allah and the oneness of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) are necessary, and so on. Is it permissible for them to set up the tent in this place, even though it is in the middle of the Sufi tents and others? This is regarding the tent itself?
I understood your words now.You want to say: You have people who are innovators, and their innovation is very severe, and people who are not innovators, but rather they are committed to the Sunnah; however, they set up their tents near the tents of these people to attract people, or to protect people from the severe innovations that these people commit.So this issue is pulled between two things: The first thing: it is an innovation, and this necessitates that it be prevented, and that it is not permissible for the people of the Sunnah to set up tents for this innovation.
The second: Protection from a greater innovation,And at that time we say: There is no harm; because diverting people from what is greater by means of what is lesser among the matters required by the Shari'ah;because of His saying, the Exalted: [al-An'am: 108] And because if the people of the Sunnah did not do that, these people would vilify them and incite the common people against them,And they said: These people do not love the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and the common people are like insects, they do not know them.
If they say: We do this to remind people of the conditions of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), his battles, his struggle, and his calling, without exaggeration; to protect them from the major innovations that may take them out of the religion, and to ward off the accusation they place upon us, whereby they drive people away from the truth.
I say: Perhaps this, if Allah wills, is among the permissible matters if the other way is not possible, which is: that we do not participate in their tents. If this is possible without harm, then that is what is required.
The questioner: Is it permissible for others -Meaning: For those other than the organizers - to go to this tent? Knowing that this is an innovation and so on?The Shaykh: They should not go. We are speaking about setting up the tent, but as for others, they should not go; however, whoever sees someone going to the tents where there is great harm should call him back.
I understood your words now.You want to say: You have people who are innovators, and their innovation is very severe, and people who are not innovators, but rather they are committed to the Sunnah; however, they set up their tents near the tents of these people to attract people, or to protect people from the severe innovations that these people commit.So this issue is pulled between two things: The first thing: it is an innovation, and this necessitates that it be prevented, and that it is not permissible for the people of the Sunnah to set up tents for this innovation.
The second: Protection from a greater innovation,And at that time we say: There is no harm; because diverting people from what is greater by means of what is lesser among the matters required by the Shari'ah;because of His saying, the Exalted:
And do not insult those they invoke other than Allah, lest they insult Allah in enmity without knowledge
وَلا تَسُبُّوا الَّذِينَ يَدْعُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ فَيَسُبُّوا اللَّهَ عَدْواً بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍIf they say: We do this to remind people of the conditions of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), his battles, his struggle, and his calling, without exaggeration; to protect them from the major innovations that may take them out of the religion, and to ward off the accusation they place upon us, whereby they drive people away from the truth.
I say: Perhaps this, if Allah wills, is among the permissible matters if the other way is not possible, which is: that we do not participate in their tents. If this is possible without harm, then that is what is required.
The questioner: Is it permissible for others -Meaning: For those other than the organizers - to go to this tent? Knowing that this is an innovation and so on?The Shaykh: They should not go. We are speaking about setting up the tent, but as for others, they should not go; however, whoever sees someone going to the tents where there is great harm should call him back.