What do you say about one who praises the people of innovation and speaks well of them? Is he considered an innovator like them, and do we associate him with them?

The questioner : What do you say about one who praises the people of innovation and speaks well of them? Is he considered an innovator like them, and do we associate him with them?

The Shaykh : And the answer to this has already been given.

The questioner : He knows them, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : I say the answer has already been given.

The questioner : In the first question.

The Shaykh : You are saying he knows them.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Just as one who commits a forbidden act knows that it is forbidden.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : The answer has already been given.