When I see a wrong and I do not know its exact legal ruling, do I not forbid the person committing this wrong? Am I correct or not?
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The questioner : When I see a wrong and I do not know its exact legal ruling, I do not forbid it, meaning I do not forbid the person committing this wrong. Am I correct or not?
The Shaykh : Yes, you are correct. If a person does not know that an action performed by someone is a wrong, it is not permissible for him to forbid it, because if he forbade it while it is not a wrong in the religion of Allah, he would have spoken about Allah without knowledge. Speaking about Allah without knowledge is forbidden with a severe prohibition, to the extent that Allah the Exalted linked it to associating partners with Him. He said, Mighty and Majestic:[Al-A'raf 7:33] However, if it is assumed that a person is told that this is a wrong, then there is no harm in saying to the doer, "So-and-so, you did such and such, and I was told that it is a wrong." If you were to ask about it so that your action is based on knowledge, there is no harm in that. As for something about which a person has no knowledge, neither from himself nor from others, it is not permissible to forbid it. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you and bless you. You said at the end, the questioner in her last question.
The Shaykh : Yes, you are correct. If a person does not know that an action performed by someone is a wrong, it is not permissible for him to forbid it, because if he forbade it while it is not a wrong in the religion of Allah, he would have spoken about Allah without knowledge. Speaking about Allah without knowledge is forbidden with a severe prohibition, to the extent that Allah the Exalted linked it to associating partners with Him. He said, Mighty and Majestic:
Say, "My Lord has only forbidden immoralities - what is apparent of them and what is concealed - and sin, and oppression without right, and that you associate with Allah that for which He has not sent down authority, and that you say about Allah that which you do not know."
قُلْ إِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ رَبِّيَ الْفَوَاحِشَ مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا وَمَا بَطَنَ وَالإِثْمَ وَالْبَغْيَ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ وَأَنْ تُشْرِكُوا بِاللَّهِ مَا لَمْ يُنَزِّلْ بِهِ سُلْطَانًا وَأَنْ تَقُولُوا عَلَى اللَّهِ مَا لا تَعْلَمُونَThe questioner : May Allah reward you and bless you. You said at the end, the questioner in her last question.