When the orator was delivering the sermon, he said: "Whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has succeeded, and whoever disobeys them both has gone astray." Why did the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) disapprove of him?

The questioner : The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when the orator from among the delegation was delivering the sermon, said: "Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed Allah, and whoever disobeys him has disobeyed Allah." So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) disapproved of him.

The Shaykh : Correct. He said, "You are a bad orator for this people." But the Messenger himself (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The Messenger himself (peace and blessings be upon him). Therefore, he combined the two because the Messenger saw in this orator something that necessitated criticizing his sermon. That is because the occasion does not call for this; it calls for elaboration and clarification. The listener who does not know might think that one does not go astray unless one commits disobedience to both Allah and His Messenger together. This implies that one does not go astray unless there is an explicit text from the Book and an explicit text from the Sunnah that is then contradicted. So the error here is not because he combined them, but because he did not elaborate, as the occasion requires. And therefore, in the Qur'an: .