The Islamic Ruling on Protesting and Demonstrations as a Means of Change | Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan

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📢 The Ruling on Protests and Demonstrations — Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan (حفظه الله) In this powerful answer, Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan refutes the false claim that protesting and demonstrating are a form of jihad in the path of Allah. - He makes it clear that these actions are lies and falsehood, not from the way of the Muslims, and have never existed in the history of Islam. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ CONTEXT AND CLAIRFACATION ⚠️ 📢 Protesting is a practice found in democracies and is permitted under their concept of “freedom of expression.” It is used as a means of change by gathering crowds to show disapproval of government policies or actions, or to raise awareness for a cause. ⚖️ However, in the Shariah, there is no concept of unrestricted “freedom of expression,” nor is the use of protests recognized as a valid means to bring about change or raise awareness. Whatever the reason or goal may be, the method itself must be legislated — and in this case, it is not. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ SOULTION ⚠️ When these misguided activists are told that participating in democratic systems is impermissible, they immediately ask: “Then what is the solution?” The answer is: 1. TRUE CHANGE IS ONLY ACHIEVED THROUGH TAWḤĪD! Call the people to Allāh to love Him, worship Him alone without partners, and submit fully to Him! Win hearts and minds by connecting them to their Lord through sound guidance and authentic knowledge. Strive to learn and teach the true creed of Tawḥīd until it is firmly established. The answer is not: 1. Voting for change. 2. Participating in systems of kufr to bring change. 3. Protesting for change. 4. Armed rebellion without the ability or means to achieve success for change. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Official Source (Arabic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWM5nmO-lv4 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True, From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Shariah #Tawheed #Manhaj #Salafi #Fawzan #IslamicKnowledge #Bidah #Falsehood #MuslimReminder #IslamicGuidance #Truth #WarningFromInnovation #IslamicTeachings #JihadClarified #Muslims