The Ruling on Backbiting One Who Displays Open Sinfulness or Religious Innovation
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Question:
Who included in backbiting: refuting the people of innovation and those who hold opposing views. Is this correct?
Answer:
No, that is a mistake. One who displays religious innovations is not subject to backbiting, and one who displays open sinfulness is not subject to backbiting. Backbiting applies to one whose speech is concealed, who has not displayed it, whose bad deeds he has not displayed. But if he displays them, it is no longer backbiting.
Backbiting is mentioning someone with something he has not made public. As for one who displays evil and open sinfulness, there is no backbiting regarding what he has displayed. Allah (Mighty and Majestic) said in His great Book: [Al-Nisa: 148], and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sahih al-Bukhari 6069. When a man with no good in him entered upon him, he said: , and in another wording he said: . And when a bad funeral passed by him and they spoke ill of it, he said: They spoke ill of it regarding what was apparent from it, and he did not rebuke them for that. This indicates that one who displays evil is not subject to backbiting.
Who included in backbiting: refuting the people of innovation and those who hold opposing views. Is this correct?
Answer:
No, that is a mistake. One who displays religious innovations is not subject to backbiting, and one who displays open sinfulness is not subject to backbiting. Backbiting applies to one whose speech is concealed, who has not displayed it, whose bad deeds he has not displayed. But if he displays them, it is no longer backbiting.
Backbiting is mentioning someone with something he has not made public. As for one who displays evil and open sinfulness, there is no backbiting regarding what he has displayed. Allah (Mighty and Majestic) said in His great Book:
Allah does not like the public mention of evil except by one who has been wronged
لَا يُحِبُّ اللَّهُ الْجَهْرَ بِالسُّوءِ مِنَ الْقَوْلِ إِلَّا مَنْ ظُلِمَAll the sins of my followers will be forgiven except those of the Mujahirin
كل أمتى معافى إلا المجاهرينWhat a bad brother of the tribe he is
بئس أخو العشيرةWhat a bad son of the tribe, allow him to enter
بئس ابن العشيرة، ائذنوا لهThe Fire is obligatory for it
وَجَبَتْ لها النار
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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