What is your opinion on using some severe terms against innovators?

The questioner : Shaykh, this person says that a question was sent by one of our brothers in Yemen regarding using some heavy, severe terms against such innovators and others. There is Shaykh Maqbul who sometimes released a tape titled "Turbans on Donkeys" in which he responds to some innovators, and he released a hadith titled "Hatib Layl on the Methodology of Critique and Vindication" in which he spoke about some of those who claim to renew in this time, though they are far from the Sunnah until they renew, and he spoke to them with severe terms. He asks: Is this permissible in light of the saying of Allah - Exalted is He - : , and , as Allah - Exalted is He - said in the Qur'an? Is this permissible, meaning from this perspective? And is it the style of critique and vindication? Because the Shaykh provided an introduction to these tapes, meaning from the evidence for the permissibility of critique and vindication. They want to know your opinion on this, may Allah reward you?

The Shaykh : By Allah, I see that the original ruling is permissible, but the problem is placing it in its appropriate place. This will undoubtedly be a field of disagreement between one person and another, and between one country and another. I think this is understood, meaning.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : The original ruling is that it is permissible.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : It is sufficient for that the saying of him - peace and blessings be upon him - : Yes, this means the strongest evidence for this direction, because it contains a specification But it may not be appropriate sometimes to apply the text or apply the rule established by the text. The thing reminds of the thing, and there is a benefit, if Allah wills. It was reported to me about some of our brothers who hold firmly to the Sunnah that he issues a fatwa permitting free mixing of men and women in the university, and his evidence for that, as he claims, and we will discuss his claim on the assumption of accepting its correctness, is that the original ruling is that study is for males and not for females, so the females are the ones transgressing by entering the university. This transgression does not prevent the youth from studying in the university, because it will lead to free mixing, and free mixing is forbidden. So on the assumption of accepting that the original ruling is that study was made only for males without females, we say: O brother, this original ruling should not be held to always and forever, especially if a harm follows from it. And there are many, many examples. The original ruling, for example, is that it is permissible for a Muslim to curse the disbeliever or curse the religion of the disbeliever, because it is a false religion, and it was established by the monks and rabbis, and so on. But by the explicit text of the Noble Qur'an, there is a prohibition from exposing oneself to cursing these people, lest those people return to curse Allah as an enemy without knowledge.