What is the criterion for innovation in the city?
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The questioner : The questioner asks, "What is the criterion for innovation?"
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner : What is the criterion for innovation in the city?
The Shaykh : Ihdad?
The questioner : Innovation from one who innovates a new matter.
The Shaykh : Yes. Yes, the criterion for innovation in the city is that it is an innovation in the religion of Allah, whether verbal, practical, or doctrinal. Likewise, whoever shelters an innovator with this [innovation] falls under the warning. However, it is obligatory for us, if we see someone who is an innovator in the city or elsewhere, to advise him, warn him of Allah, and clarify the truth to him until the proof is established against him, because some people may have studied in certain books or been taught a specific school of jurisprudence by some people without the other schools being mentioned, so they are ignorant. If they are informed and the message is conveyed, the proof is established against them. And I think we are five minutes late as usual.
The student: Ten...
The Shaykh : No, my brother. No. Your testimony is not accepted because you are testifying for yourselves, but nine and a half and five now, is that enough?
The student: We finished at ten yesterday, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes? We will give you five minutes, there is no problem.
The student: Since you are not present tomorrow, O Shaykh
The Shaykh : Ten minutes? There is no harm. There is no harm?
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : What is it?
The questioner : What is the criterion for innovation in the city?
The Shaykh : Ihdad?
The questioner : Innovation from one who innovates a new matter.
The Shaykh : Yes. Yes, the criterion for innovation in the city is that it is an innovation in the religion of Allah, whether verbal, practical, or doctrinal. Likewise, whoever shelters an innovator with this [innovation] falls under the warning. However, it is obligatory for us, if we see someone who is an innovator in the city or elsewhere, to advise him, warn him of Allah, and clarify the truth to him until the proof is established against him, because some people may have studied in certain books or been taught a specific school of jurisprudence by some people without the other schools being mentioned, so they are ignorant. If they are informed and the message is conveyed, the proof is established against them. And I think we are five minutes late as usual.
The student: Ten...
The Shaykh : No, my brother. No. Your testimony is not accepted because you are testifying for yourselves, but nine and a half and five now, is that enough?
The student: We finished at ten yesterday, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes? We will give you five minutes, there is no problem.
The student: Since you are not present tomorrow, O Shaykh
The Shaykh : Ten minutes? There is no harm. There is no harm?
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.