Is the intention behind avoiding politics to avoid knowing the news of many Muslims outside the country, or knowing, for example, reading books about, for example, World War One?
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The questioner : May Allah bless you. A moment ago you referred to the matter of researching politics, O Shaykh. Regarding this matter of avoidance, is it, for example, knowing the news of many Muslims outside the country, or knowing, for example, reading books about, for example, World War One or Two?
The Shaykh : No, that is not what I mean. This is a collective obligation (fard kifayah). What I mean is engaging the youth and dedicating them to political work that diverts them from understanding the religion. The example is before you: the Muslim Brotherhood diverts them from understanding the religion and from proper Islamic upbringing because of this preoccupation with political work. Look at you, and these Muslim Brothers, and these members of the Tahrir Party: what have they offered for themselves? I do not even say what have they offered to the Islamic world? Nothing! Stay in your place, the military system, shouting and screaming and slogans, and so on. Then one of them remains as his mother bore him, except for a little; he does not understand much of Islam. The reason is their preoccupation with the political work they are in, the slogans, and so on. Now you find that because of their ignorance of Islam, they shape Islam in a European, random, and airy manner. They bring pictures into the mosques in the name of what? Announcing what the Jews are doing to our Palestinian brothers? O people, fear Allah. They bring in games that are not permissible, or whose introduction is not permissible, into the mosques. It has become a very weak, very weak matter. The reason is that seventy percent, or at least sixty percent, of the group is destroyed, and then you do not find a single jurist among them. You do not find a single jurist in them, no exegete, no jurist, no hadith scholar, or anything else. And whoever issues a ruling among them rules according to the four schools of jurisprudence, and I do not say he follows the four!
The questioner : And in my mosque, O Shaykh, the matter reached the point where they brought a picture of a woman, a woman, of course, whose clothing is not Islamic... for a play they are performing at the university. They hung it up. I came and looked at this picture and said, a woman displaying her adornment (tabarruj), how can you put this up.
The Shaykh : ... the Shaykhs ... if she is displaying her adornment, it is fine, there is no harm, La ilaha illa Allah, go ahead.
The Shaykh : No, that is not what I mean. This is a collective obligation (fard kifayah). What I mean is engaging the youth and dedicating them to political work that diverts them from understanding the religion. The example is before you: the Muslim Brotherhood diverts them from understanding the religion and from proper Islamic upbringing because of this preoccupation with political work. Look at you, and these Muslim Brothers, and these members of the Tahrir Party: what have they offered for themselves? I do not even say what have they offered to the Islamic world? Nothing! Stay in your place, the military system, shouting and screaming and slogans, and so on. Then one of them remains as his mother bore him, except for a little; he does not understand much of Islam. The reason is their preoccupation with the political work they are in, the slogans, and so on. Now you find that because of their ignorance of Islam, they shape Islam in a European, random, and airy manner. They bring pictures into the mosques in the name of what? Announcing what the Jews are doing to our Palestinian brothers? O people, fear Allah. They bring in games that are not permissible, or whose introduction is not permissible, into the mosques. It has become a very weak, very weak matter. The reason is that seventy percent, or at least sixty percent, of the group is destroyed, and then you do not find a single jurist among them. You do not find a single jurist in them, no exegete, no jurist, no hadith scholar, or anything else. And whoever issues a ruling among them rules according to the four schools of jurisprudence, and I do not say he follows the four!
The questioner : And in my mosque, O Shaykh, the matter reached the point where they brought a picture of a woman, a woman, of course, whose clothing is not Islamic... for a play they are performing at the university. They hung it up. I came and looked at this picture and said, a woman displaying her adornment (tabarruj), how can you put this up.
The Shaykh : ... the Shaykhs ... if she is displaying her adornment, it is fine, there is no harm, La ilaha illa Allah, go ahead.
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