The Difference Between Religious Innovation and the Forbidden

'Abd al-Malik: All right, Shaykh, if the reason for prohibiting the addition in the case of extravagance, for example, is that it leads to waste, then the issue would no longer fall under religious innovation but rather under the forbidden or, at the very least, the disliked.

The Shaykh : But can you not reason with me that every religious innovation is forbidden, whereas not every forbidden matter is a religious innovation?
Abd al-Malik: Yes.

The Shaykh : First, this is a newly introduced matter, so in this respect it is a religious innovation. And because it also involves the waste of money, effort, and time, it also falls under the forbidden due to this, meaning it falls under explicitly stated prohibitions. Therefore, it is not called a religious innovation in the same way as other innovations; rather, there are forbidden matters that are explicitly stated, and there are forbidden matters that are newly introduced, and this matter combines both descriptions. Then, we can observe here that if a Muslim introduces a matter and that matter is explicitly forbidden by text, it is not considered an innovation in the religion.