What is your guidance for one who insists on not accepting the truth from someone younger than him in age, or from someone he holds a grudge against?
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The questioner : What is the guidance of your eminence for one who insists on not accepting the truth because the speaker is younger than him in age, and because the listener has something in his heart against the speaker? I ask for advice and guidance in this matter.
The Shaykh : My advice in this case, if this person is persisting in sin, whether it is committing a forbidden act or leaving an obligatory one, and his brother or companion is younger than him in age, and he knows that he will not accept advice from him, my advice to him, the one being advised, is to accept advice from anyone. The truth is what the believer seeks, and it is the believer’s lost property; wherever he finds it, he takes it.
As for the one giving advice, if he knows or it is more likely in his opinion that this person will belittle the advice and not accept it, let him seek someone older than him to give this advice to this man who is persisting in sin.
The questioner : May Allah bless you. This is a listener from Sudan, code A-A-A, saying: O honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh : My advice in this case, if this person is persisting in sin, whether it is committing a forbidden act or leaving an obligatory one, and his brother or companion is younger than him in age, and he knows that he will not accept advice from him, my advice to him, the one being advised, is to accept advice from anyone. The truth is what the believer seeks, and it is the believer’s lost property; wherever he finds it, he takes it.
As for the one giving advice, if he knows or it is more likely in his opinion that this person will belittle the advice and not accept it, let him seek someone older than him to give this advice to this man who is persisting in sin.
The questioner : May Allah bless you. This is a listener from Sudan, code A-A-A, saying: O honorable Shaykh.