What is the duration and method of the Shari'ah boycott?
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Question:
How do you reconcile not boycotting with the saying of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) : [Al-Ma'idah:79]?
Answer:
This [boycott] accompanies them; they take them as companions, but you do not take them as companions. You contact them for the sake of da'wah, not for companionship. You contact them for da'wah, guidance, and direction, but you do not accompany them in their evil deeds. As for the action of the Children of Israel, they accompanied them in their evil deeds and left off forbidding them. But you do not do that. If you visit him, you forbid him [from evil], you enjoin what is right, and you forbid what is wrong, twice, three times, perhaps he will be guided, without taking him as a companion; you eat with him and drink with him.
Q: Does the boycott have a duration?
A: According to the ijtihad of the one boycotting; it is not fixed.
Q: Does he not greet him with the salam?
A: He does not greet him with the salam, and he does not shake his hand, even if years have passed, if he remains upon his religious innovation and his apparent sins. Yes.
Q: Is there a specific duration for advice?
A: Whenever you meet him, you advise him. Whenever it is easy, you advise him. If he persists, you boycott him.
Q: Is the boycott in worldly matters three nights?
A: He boycotts him in speech for three days. If Allah guides him, praise be to Allah. This is in the right of the person; it is a shortcoming in the right of the person, not in the right of Allah, but in the right of the human being.
Q: Who said that the boycott in this time is not beneficial?
A: That is a mistake. It is beneficial. If the people of good and the people of the right to bind and release boycott him, it has an effect. And if it does not have an effect, praise be to Allah, your conscience is clear.
How do you reconcile not boycotting with the saying of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) :
They used not to prevent one another from wrongdoing that they did
كَانُوا لَا يَتَنَاهَوْنَ عَنْ مُنْكَرٍ فَعَلُوهُAnswer:
This [boycott] accompanies them; they take them as companions, but you do not take them as companions. You contact them for the sake of da'wah, not for companionship. You contact them for da'wah, guidance, and direction, but you do not accompany them in their evil deeds. As for the action of the Children of Israel, they accompanied them in their evil deeds and left off forbidding them. But you do not do that. If you visit him, you forbid him [from evil], you enjoin what is right, and you forbid what is wrong, twice, three times, perhaps he will be guided, without taking him as a companion; you eat with him and drink with him.
Q: Does the boycott have a duration?
A: According to the ijtihad of the one boycotting; it is not fixed.
Q: Does he not greet him with the salam?
A: He does not greet him with the salam, and he does not shake his hand, even if years have passed, if he remains upon his religious innovation and his apparent sins. Yes.
Q: Is there a specific duration for advice?
A: Whenever you meet him, you advise him. Whenever it is easy, you advise him. If he persists, you boycott him.
Q: Is the boycott in worldly matters three nights?
A: He boycotts him in speech for three days. If Allah guides him, praise be to Allah. This is in the right of the person; it is a shortcoming in the right of the person, not in the right of Allah, but in the right of the human being.
Q: Who said that the boycott in this time is not beneficial?
A: That is a mistake. It is beneficial. If the people of good and the people of the right to bind and release boycott him, it has an effect. And if it does not have an effect, praise be to Allah, your conscience is clear.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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