al-Mosleh: Shouting "Takbeer" has No Basis

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Question: may Allah grant you with goodness, what is the ruling on a person shouting "Takbeer" and the people behind him say Allahu Akbar in unison - as they do during protests? Is this action an innovation?

Answer: There is no basis for this. 

-Shaykh Khalid al-Mosleh (Allah preserve him)
Teacher at al-Masjid al-Haram in Makkah and the Prophet's Masjid in al-Madeenah
Teacher at the Faculty of Sharee'ah, al-Qassim University, Saudi Arabia. 

Al-Uthaymeen: this is the case for many people today...

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 Allah (the Exalted and Glorified) said:

“Do not obey those who’s heart is negligent with Our Remembrance and follows his own desires and his affairs are lost” [18:28]

This is the case for many people today, with great regret. Allah has closed their hearts in remembering Him, so they followed their desires and their affairs are lost. They spend hours, rather days, and they haven’t achieved anything.

-Shaykh Muhammad bin Saaleh al-Uthaymeen (Allah have Mercy on him)

Civil Unrest and Social Media

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[About information which displeases the believer] You reject it in the heart, on the tongue and explain the truth to the people. It is not permitted to spread it and send it to others. Some ignoramus send images and want others to see it.

This is wrong!

Do you want Baatil (falsehood) to spread?

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Some people spread these things on social media but they are helping to spread falsehood!

Rather, if something like this comes to you – delete it from your phone and don’t send it to others.

Subhanallah!

Questioner: many of the Muslim youth use their time to follow the news from the Kuffar to find out what oppression is taking place against the Muslims, and they spend a long time doing this…

Answer: Once you know it’s happening, what’s going to happen?

“Such and such people have done this” and “others have done that.”

What are they going to do now? Do they have a solution? Do they have anything to offer to stop it or to reduce the oppression?

They only follow these things to find out what is happening, nothing else.

Everything has to be balanced between transgression (Ifraat) and negligence (Tafreet)

Wasting your time in following these things and watching at clips with the latest information, wastes so much time and this is transgression.

And transgression is blameworthy in all things.

Transgression is to go beyond the bounds with that which is appropriate.  

-Shaykh Abdur-Rahman bin Naasir al-Baraak (Allah Preserve him)

Taken from Sharh “Tuhaf fi Mathaahib as-Salaf” of ash-Shawkani (Allah have Mercy on him), Tape 3 (72:40 – 74:30)