What is your opinion regarding many people who commit religious innovations, and when we forbid them from that act and guide them to the correct evidence, they say, "We detest this"?
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The questioner : In the second question of this questioner from Jordan, he says: "May your eminence, what is your eminence's opinion regarding the fact that many people commit religious innovations, and when we forbid them from that act and guide them to the correct evidence, they say, 'Oh brother, we detest this speech, and you want to restrict us. We are satisfied with our practice.' Guide us. May Allah reward you with good?"
The Shaykh : If they detest this speech because it came from the speaker, not because it is the Shari'ah of Allah, then the matter in this case is easy. But if they hate this speech because it is from the Shari'ah of Allah, then they are in great danger. For Allah the Exalted said in His Book:[Muhammad 47:9].
Then, on the first possibility that they hated the statement of this speaker, we say to them: Why do you hate it? Does he not have evidence? And it is obligatory for the believer, when the evidence becomes clear to him, to leave what he was upon for what the evidence indicates, due to the saying of Allah Blessed and Exalted is He:[Al-Ahzab 33:36]. Therefore, it is not permissible for anyone to oppose the Shari'ah of Allah with the customs of his people, because whoever opposes the Shari'ah of Allah with the customs of his people becomes similar to the statement of those people to whom the messengers called them to the oneness of Allah, and they said: [Az-Zukhruf 43:22]. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : If they detest this speech because it came from the speaker, not because it is the Shari'ah of Allah, then the matter in this case is easy. But if they hate this speech because it is from the Shari'ah of Allah, then they are in great danger. For Allah the Exalted said in His Book:
That is because they disliked what Allah revealed, so He rendered worthless their deeds.
ذلِكَ بِأَنَّهُم كَرِهوا ما أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ فَأَحبَطَ أَعمالَهُمThen, on the first possibility that they hated the statement of this speaker, we say to them: Why do you hate it? Does he not have evidence? And it is obligatory for the believer, when the evidence becomes clear to him, to leave what he was upon for what the evidence indicates, due to the saying of Allah Blessed and Exalted is He:
It is not for a believing man or a believing woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decided a matter, that they should [thereafter] have any choice about their affair. And whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger has certainly strayed into clear error.
وَما كانَ لِمُؤمِنٍ وَلا مُؤمِنَةٍ إِذا قَضَى اللَّهُ وَرَسولُهُ أَمرًا أَن يَكونَ لَهُمُ الخِيَرَةُ مِن أَمرِهِم وَمَن يَعصِ اللَّهَ وَرَسولَهُ فَقَد ضَلَّ ضَلالًا مُبينًاIndeed, we found our fathers upon a religion, and we are in their footsteps [rightly] guided."
إِنّا وَجَدنا ءاباءَنا عَلى أُمَّةٍ وَإِنّا عَلى ءاثارِهِم مُهتَدونَThe questioner : May Allah reward you with good.