Explanation of the Book of Fitnahs and Rulings-02b
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The reciter: بعث فاكتتبت فيه فلقيت عكرمة فأخبرته فنهاني أشد النهي ثم قال أخبرني ابن عباس أن أناسًا من المسلمين كانوا مع المشركين يكثرون سواد المشركين على رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فيأتي السهم فيرمى فيصيب أحدهم فيقتله أو يضربه فيقتله فأنزل الله تعالى : إن الذين توفاهم الملائكة ظالمي أنفسهم A military expedition was sent, so I enlisted in it. Then I met 'Ikrimah and informed him, and he forbade me from it with the strongest prohibition. Then he said: Ibn 'Abbas informed me that a group of Muslims were with the polytheists, increasing the number of the polytheists against the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). An arrow would come and be thrown, hitting one of them, killing him or wounding him fatally. So Allah the Exalted revealed: "Indeed, those whom the angels take [in death] while they are wronging themselves...".
The Shaykh : But this is clear: there is no doubt that increasing the number of the people of fitnah and oppression, and the people of fitnah and oppression, even if one does not do with them what they did, is no doubt disliked. Rather, it is from aiding in sin and transgression. So it is not permissible for a person to increase the number of the people of falsehood, the people of fitnah, and the people of sins, because there are two dangers in that:
The first danger: strengthening their power.
And the second danger: frightening the people of good. When the people of evil see that the number of the people of evil has increased, there is no doubt that it frightens and terrifies them.
The Shaykh : But this is clear: there is no doubt that increasing the number of the people of fitnah and oppression, and the people of fitnah and oppression, even if one does not do with them what they did, is no doubt disliked. Rather, it is from aiding in sin and transgression. So it is not permissible for a person to increase the number of the people of falsehood, the people of fitnah, and the people of sins, because there are two dangers in that:
The first danger: strengthening their power.
And the second danger: frightening the people of good. When the people of evil see that the number of the people of evil has increased, there is no doubt that it frightens and terrifies them.