What is your advice for one who wastes his time in gatherings by talking about scholars, rulers, or Islamic groups?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you, O honorable Shaykh. What is your opinion of many of the young people who, when they gather in a gathering, spend most of their time talking about the rulers of the Muslims, or the preachers, or the scholars, or the Islamic groups, and they consider this to be in the category of advice, or in the category of warning against their mistakes, or the like?
The Shaykh : I see that these people have wasted their time without benefit, and they have occupied themselves with what is not beneficial, but rather harmful, especially talking about what concerns the people of knowledge and the rulers, because of the great harm that this causes to the Ummah. For talking about scholars through backbiting diminishes their status in the hearts of people, and when the status of scholars is diminished in the hearts of people, their acceptance of what these scholars say becomes weak, and thereby the Shari'ah is disrupted. As for the rulers, we also say: if they are spoken about through backbiting, cursing, and insulting, and their faults are mentioned while their virtues are ignored, this leads to people hating them and not obeying their orders, and to chaos and division among the Ummah, and the sin falls upon these people if any of that occurs. Then we say to these people: does your talk lead to reform?
The answer will be: No, it does not lead to reform, but rather it increases the evil. Yes.
The questioner : Honorable Shaykh, one mentioned!
The Shaykh : From here, but whoever catches one rak'ah of the prayer has caught the prayer.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : The question is somewhat long. One of the writers in one of the magazines mentioned a scientific biological theory, saying: the earth is composed of a crust and a core, and the crust moves in the opposite direction to the core. In our time, the core is moving from east to west, and the crust is moving from west to east. So the sun rises from the east, and then he says: a slowing down occurs between the core and the crust until it reaches a period of stability. Then, after that, a reversal of direction occurs between the crust and the core, so the crust moves from east to west and the core the opposite way. Then a slowing down occurs, and this slowing down happens on the day where the acceleration may be ten hours, and the slowing down may be fifty hours.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : The slowing down of the crust relative to the core makes the day fifty hours, because the issue of friction between the crust and the core lengthens the day in the rotation of the earth. Then he argues and says: the story of Dhul-Qarnayn, he said that that period was a period of stability between the crust and the core, so Dhul-Qarnayn reached the setting and rising of the sun, so half of the earth was in complete light:[Al-Kahf 18:90] and the other half was in darkness, and they did not understand a word, as they did not have the illumination of the sun. Then he said: we will put this before our scholars, and it is only open to acceptance and rejection. What is your opinion?
The Shaykh : I see that these people have wasted their time without benefit, and they have occupied themselves with what is not beneficial, but rather harmful, especially talking about what concerns the people of knowledge and the rulers, because of the great harm that this causes to the Ummah. For talking about scholars through backbiting diminishes their status in the hearts of people, and when the status of scholars is diminished in the hearts of people, their acceptance of what these scholars say becomes weak, and thereby the Shari'ah is disrupted. As for the rulers, we also say: if they are spoken about through backbiting, cursing, and insulting, and their faults are mentioned while their virtues are ignored, this leads to people hating them and not obeying their orders, and to chaos and division among the Ummah, and the sin falls upon these people if any of that occurs. Then we say to these people: does your talk lead to reform?
The answer will be: No, it does not lead to reform, but rather it increases the evil. Yes.
The questioner : Honorable Shaykh, one mentioned!
The Shaykh : From here, but whoever catches one rak'ah of the prayer has caught the prayer.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : The question is somewhat long. One of the writers in one of the magazines mentioned a scientific biological theory, saying: the earth is composed of a crust and a core, and the crust moves in the opposite direction to the core. In our time, the core is moving from east to west, and the crust is moving from west to east. So the sun rises from the east, and then he says: a slowing down occurs between the core and the crust until it reaches a period of stability. Then, after that, a reversal of direction occurs between the crust and the core, so the crust moves from east to west and the core the opposite way. Then a slowing down occurs, and this slowing down happens on the day where the acceleration may be ten hours, and the slowing down may be fifty hours.
The Shaykh : What?
The questioner : The slowing down of the crust relative to the core makes the day fifty hours, because the issue of friction between the crust and the core lengthens the day in the rotation of the earth. Then he argues and says: the story of Dhul-Qarnayn, he said that that period was a period of stability between the crust and the core, so Dhul-Qarnayn reached the setting and rising of the sun, so half of the earth was in complete light: