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Sending
preachers
Question:
Muslim minorities are in need of scholars and preachers who
are aware of their problems and their present day situation,
who are able to provide them with solutions from one day to
the next.
Response:
There is no doubt that this is true and something that is
also an obligation upon us. We did what we could concerning
this matter through the General Presidency for the Administration
of Academic Missions, Advice, Calling and Guidance. We did
in fact send, and all praise is for Allaah, many preachers,
but they were fewer than was our duty and less than necessary.
There are, however, many of them, and all praise is for Allaah,
in most countries and also within a number of Muslim minorities.
We ask Allaah that He brings benefit through them and that
He helps them to carry out their duty.
We,
inshaa.-Allaah,
hope to do more and we hope it will be possible for our brothers
in other Islaamic countries to strive to send scholars and
the very best people to the Muslim minorities in order that
they might benefit them. Whoever can send reliable preachers,
who are known to have correct understanding of the tenets
of faith as well as having Islaamic behaviour so that they
are able to guide and direct their brothers living as minorities
and help them to perform their obligatory duties, should do
so.
What
is very important is, that nobody should be sent unless he
has both correct understanding of the tenets of faith and
discernment. Those who have understood belief according to
how the righteous predecessors understood it truly grasped
it and reflected upon it and are capable of guiding their
brothers living as minorities to it.
We
ask Allaah for guidance and success for the Muslims!
Shaykh
Ibn Baaz
al-Aqalliyaat al-Muslimah - Page 33, Fatwa No.7
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