A List of Lies, Distortions and Fabrications Spread on Social Media by Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī

Introduction

Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (رحمه الله) said:^[1]

He also said:^[2]

Shaykh Rabīʿ bin Hādī said:^[3]

He also said:^[4]

Background

During 2023 and 2024, it became common knowledge among most populations of the world that the Covid-19 response was exaggerated if not fraudulent altogether, was merely a scheme to sell experimental injections, that these injections were marketed fraudulently, had failed (despite propaganda to the contrary) and caused much death and injury. Though the state of pandemic emergency was planned to last five years, it had to be ended in May 2023, due to public awakening and loss of confidence in the injections and boosters. As these realisations were taking place, certain people were unhappy because they had committed themselves to harsh stances and judgements which did not come from the senior scholars, those officially appointed by the government.

The tipping point came on 17 September 2024 when I tweeted a link to a report based on some speech of Shaykh ʿAlī al-Ḥudhayfī regarding population reduction and vaccines. This likely led Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī to become incensed (angry) for two reasons. First, because of the subject matter. Even in August 2023, he was still falsely accusing others of lying about Covid-19 vaccines causing death and injury. And second, because he has issues with Shaykh ʿAlī al-Ḥudhayfī, and was likely grieved by the article on vaccines and population control and Allāh knows best. Two days later, with the prompting of women known to create fitnah in daʿwah with hidden identities on social media, he began to make accusations and attacks directed at me, through the use of clearly identifying language.

What Happened in Brief

DURING SEPTEMBER 2024 Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī spread numerous allegations about me on social media based on some private voice notes of mine from May 2021 through the use of identifying language. These allegations were either lies and outright fabrications, or distortions, or misinterpretations of isolated words and sentences taken out of context, stretched, twisted or generalised and made to appear as if I hate the scholars and want to topple them.

As it was a private audio (to only one person), this matter could have been very easily resolved. All he had to do was to contact me privately, and seek clarification, that there is a private audio of yours wherein some of your statements have been understood and interpreted in such a way, is this correct and can you explain? That’s all there was to it. However, Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī desired to create a scandal, and hence, he took the matter to social media.

He never adhered to intellectual and academic integrity and made wild, horrendous, grossly-inflated accusations, having believed the lies of his translators. He then refused to reveal his sources and translators, and when he was unable to substantiate his claims, he called for peace (ṣulḥ) and arbitration (muḥākamah) from behind the scenes, which was a ploy to get out of a difficult situation.

Thereafter, a few months later, having revised his tactics and seeking to mend his image, he embarked on a more covert and subtle campaign, using expendable proxies to do his work, to revive the issue once again and make use of trolling, intimidation and bullying. This is what has been happening over the past two months since February 2025.

This is not the way of the scholars whose objectives are to mend, rectify and unite. Rather, it resembles the way of the Ḥaddādiyyah, whose objective is to destroy, split and divide. This is not how you behave with Salafīs at all and it is reassuring to know that the vast majority of Salafīs all across the English-speaking world recognised this.

What is in the Voice Notes

The issues I spoke about, whether in these voice notes, or elsewhere, were in response to incorrect claims and exaggerations made by some students and the false ascriptions they made to scholars during the Covid-19 operation.

These are the affairs I mentioned in the voice notes, which are around 55 minutes in length:

• That doctors, specialists, health authorities and nations have differed greatly regarding the Covid-19 pandemic response.
• That the authority of one nation does not extend to other nations, and everyone is bound only by the laws of their own country.
• But, that we must return to scholars when legislative rulings are unclear to us.
• That we must obey the rulers and scholars in their ijtihāds.
• That scholars call for obedience to the rulers in their ijtihāds, in accordance with the Sunnah.
• That no one can be forced to hold a view in medicine (or matters of religious differing) against his personal conviction.
• That doctors and researchers are free to discuss and debate views from the medical and scientific aspects, and that no one has a right to silence them.
• That in any worldly speciality (such as medicine, technology, industry, agriculture), it is not the domain of Islamic scholars to settle disputes between the people of that discipline.
• That we can advise the rulers through legislated means.
• That if we wish to effect change, we give advice in the legislated way to the health authorities and ministers.
• A casual observation regarding the rapid development of the Arab Gulf states, being heavily reliant on foreign expertise.

However, they overturned all of this and portrayed me as someone who hates the scholars, wants to topple them, and is following the way of the Muʿtazilah and the Quṭbiyyah and the Surūriyyah towards them. Using only 8 minutes of audio (and leaving out the first 45 minutes) they acribed to me what I did not say or intend, and they made the worst possible interpretations of my speech.

The Way of the Scholars: Honesty, Integrity, and Truthfulness

With respect to standards of truthfulness, honesty, integrity and trustworthiness which are shown in writings, criticisms and refutations, here is an illustration with respect to Shaykh Rabīʿ bin Hādi and his refutations of Sayyid Quṭb:^[5]

This is the standard of integrity and honesty that is shown towards a misguided innovator, who had calamities in belief and methodology. Let us see the integrity and honesty of Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī in relation to callers to Tawḥīd and Sunnah who have defended the honour and status of the major scholars of this ummah for decades, during many trials and tribulations.

The List of Lies, Distortions, Fabrications and Slanders of Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī

Below is a list of the various lies, distortions and fabrications that were spread by Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī via his social media accounts which collectively reach over 100,000 people. These were also translated by his followers into English, German, Urdu and other languages, and subsequently spread on social media.

Note that some of the accusations below were presented by Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī with the word "says" (يقول) and “claims” (يزعم), and the meaning of the word (يزعم) is “said” (قال), or “mentioned” (ذكر), or “believed” (ظن) and also (اعتقد), and “certain” (استيقن). Hence, this is a clear attribution of saying, believing and being certain about something.

Reality: A raw fabrication. Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī attributed this to me, and said that this is what I claim, but it is nowhere to be found in my voice notes, it is an outright lie.

He and his team of translators have mixed things together, the fact that I said that scholars do not resolve medical disputes between people, as that is not their speciality, and that they will refer to specialists themselves. And likewise, I made a casual mention that the Arab Gulf states are very new to modern science and medicine, that they left the desert life and developed very rapidly through oil riches and have been heavily reliant on foreign expertise, from Europe and America, and hence, they are new to the field of modern medicine. So they merged all of this together and put into my mouth what I never said, intended or even thought of. It is a horrendous fabrication.

Reality: An evil fabrication. I stated that when the ruler makes ijtihād (in differed over issues), in the setting of an international event, the scholars will support the health policies of the ruler from the angle of the Sunnah, (even if they may have their own personal views).

Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī has twisted this and fabricated a lie upon me, ascribing to me words that I never said. Here are some examples of my speech from the voice notes:

The one who hears all of these very clear statements of mine in the voice notes, over and over, and then accuses me of saying that the scholars “follow behind their rulers with a blind-following”, simply for saying that in matters of ijtihād in differed over matters (pertaining to medicine) that the scholars will obey the ruler, then he cannot be a truthful person at all.

If I said that “the scholars follow behind their rulers with a blind-following”, then why I do I say in the audio about 10 times, that we must obey the rulers, because of the Sunnah, and because this is what the scholars call to?

See also point 8 below.

Reality: This is an accusation of bidʿah. Ascribing to anyone (never mind a Salafi) the desire (irādah) to topple the scholars of Tawḥīd and Sunnah in order to spread a false idea; cannot be anything other than misguidance based on hatred of the scholars. This accusation, along with constantly comparing me to the Surūriyyah and Quṭbiyyah, and accusing me of deviance, is bordering on tabdīʿ. This is not how a person of the Sunnah is treated.

Rather, I defended the rulers in the early days of the Covid-19 event against the accusations of the Surūriyyah and Quṭbiyyah who were reviling the rulers for the implementation of restrictive measures.

That defence entailed firstly establishing the obligation of hearing and obeying the Muslim ruler, something I mentioned many times, even in the audio that they used against me. That is my ʿaqīdah and the ʿaqidah of Ahl al-Sunnah wal Jamāʿah.

Secondly, I mentioned that the Muslim rulers have a right to ijtihād, and they may enact measures for various reasons, including but not limited to their treaty agreements.

As for the scholars: I constantly advised with returning to them, and I affirmed their right to ijtihād and giving fatwā with respect to acts of worship and dealings affected by the pandemic measures. Even in the audio that they tried to use against me, I mentioned on multiple occasions that one must return to the scholars for the affairs that require a legislative ruling.

So if I desired to topple the scholars to aid a false idea; then which false idea did I desire to aid, and which specific scholars did I desire to topple? Please name them.

Reality: Outright fabrication.

Reality: Outright fabrication. Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī does not even speak English, and further, how did he hear something which I never said in the first place in a language he does not even understand? Hence, Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī is blatantly lying here.

The scholars gave a legislative judgement (ḥukm sharʿiyy), and I affirmed that, since the dispute was never about whether vaccines in general or this specific Covid-19 injection was permissible (jāʾiz). Rather, I spoke about these injections from the medical and scientific point of view based on concrete facts and established realities, as did thousands of other specialists and researchers in the medical field all across the world.

Reality: Outright distortion, fabrication and slander. One can see such desperation Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī in trying to frame my speech as if it is coming from the route and direction of the Quṭbiyyah and Surūriyyah, those who say that the scholars are the slaves of the rulers. This is the most evil type of distortion.

Given that in early 2021 the experimental injections were evidently killing and injuring people, I desired to shield the scholars by making it clear that they did not devise or impose the vaccination policies. Rather, that they merely spoke of the permissibility of taking preventive medicine and left it at that and that more generally, they will support the health measures of the government and will not oppose them, from the angle of obedience to the ruler and maintaining order in society.

Reality: As the reader can see clearly, Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī is engaging in a lot of mental gymnastics here and indulging in a lot of distortion and horrendous types of twisting of speech. The matter is simple. When the rulers makes ijtihād in an event deemed a crisis, especially in matters that are differed over, the scholars will support the health policies and will not oppose them, even if they have a different view, and this is from the angle of adhereing to the Sunnah.

Here are the words of Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Bukhārī on 30 November 2021, when talking about the issue of the pandemic measures and the Covid-19 injections:

In these words Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Bukhārī has said that he cannot have an opinion outside of their opinion, and that he cannot abandon their saying. This speech is much easier to interpret in that way (that scholars follow the rulers blindly and will never oppose their policies) than my speech. However, anyone who reads my speech knows exactly what was meant.

ِAnd here is my actual speech verbatim from the 8 minute audio clip, which ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī used:

The reader should also note Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī’s dishonesty and deception in that he and his team did not reveal the fact that I was simply conveying the feedback I had received on this issue after raising it with students of knowledge. So this is just outright dishonesty and plain lying.

This is from the most horrendous and evil distortions and fabrications against a person’s speech and intent. They took the last 30 seconds from almost an hour’s worth of a private audio with one person in which I was trying to make him understand that disputes in matters of medicine are not referred back to scholars, as it is not their domain of speciality, and it just happened to cross my mind at that moment, what one brother told me, and I was quoting him, that if he took the dispute about vaccinations, about their harms, as he had intended to, to Shaykh Sālim, and then others would come and say the opposite, the Shaykh would not know who to believe.

So Dr. Arafāt failed to point out that I was quoting someone else, and secondly, because the clip is isolated from the prior 45 minutes of audio, the point I was making all along was lost, and thirdly, he focused on how he perceived my manner of speech while I was explaining this in the voice note, and claimed I was literally laughing when I said it, with deliberate mockery and belittlement, in order to create a huge scandal.

Sadly, he managed to affect people (especially among Arab speakers) with these gross exaggerations and most evil interpretations of intent and purpose. In hindsight, it was perhaps better not to have even mentioned this, but as I said, it just came to mind spontaneously, so I mentioned it, and at best this can be considered a lack of care in speech. But as for all these gross lies and fabrications made by ʿArafāt, then Allāh knows I am free of them, and may Allāh bring to justice, the slanderers, liars and oppressors.

Reality: Outright fabrication and slander. I have never said this or suggested it. Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī confused the issue of giving fatwā regarding Sharīʿah rulings, with the issue of returning affairs of doctors back to religious scholars.

What I hold is that when doctors and scientists differ in medical matters, religious scholars cannot resolve these disputes, unless they themselves are specialists in these fields or have knowledge regarding them. Furthermore, a doctor or specialist in his field does not need permission from religious scholars in order to express his expert opinion.

As for the matter of fiqh and sharʿiyy rulings and fatāwā that maybe connected to medical matters, this is something completely different, and I advised, around ten times at least in the voice notes, that one should return to the scholars.

For example, some of my many clear statements in the voice notes are the following:

Hence, all the claims about “turning people away from the scholars” and “trying to bring down the scholars” and the allegation that I said that “scholars cannot give fatwā unless they get medical qualifications first” are clearly false. So this is an evil slander.

Reality: False accusations based on wild imagination. This is what he and his team of translators wanted to see in my speech, even though there is no such thing therein. This is just exaggeration and distortion, and in reality, Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī began to make these wild, exaggerated claims in order to gain sympathy and support for his cause, knowing that he messed up in his approach the first time around in September 2024, and people criticised him for it.

This behaviour is far removed from the knowledge-based responses or refutations that we know from senior scholars such as Shaykh Rabīʿ bin Hādī who are characterised with integrity, honesty and justice. Rather, these are lies, fabrications and propaganda from Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī who invents necessities (lawāzim) and enforces them upon people's speech, imputing them falsely with what they are free of.

Reality: Confused ramblings. I responded to this in my second reply back in October 2024. I have never said any such thing. Rather, that which I said is that in any particular worldly speciality (such as medicine, technology, industry, agriculture), it is not the domain of scholars to settle disputes between the people of that discipline. And I explained this because people were demanding that I take my views on how to treat an illness and vaccinations to the scholars. Scholars are not judges and arbitrators in medical disputes and differences.

But as for when a fatwā is needed for a legislative ruling, I made it clear in the voice notes that the scholars are returned to. So this is a raw fabrication and slander, based on his own confusion. He wants to believe that’s what I said, and desperately needs others to believe that that's what I said.

Reality: So basically, you just invent things, ascribe them to people, and then make remarks like this one. Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī and his translators are way over their heads and got themselves stuck in a maze with all these distortions, lies and fabrications based on their questionable intentions.

Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) said:^[6]

So if this is the case with a statement that a man actually said, then how about the statements that are fabricated upon a man?! With Allāh’s bounty, I am a Salafī who has been calling to the Qurān and Sunnah upon the way of Salaf, and to returning to the Scholars of the Sunnah, and refuting the Khawārij and their modern day manifestations, Surāriyyah and the Quṭbiyyah, for more than 30 years. There is no excuse for you to have arrived at the conclusion that I resemble Ahl al-Bidʿah except if you have been misled into believing lies, or you simply choose to be unjust and oppressive, after having been informed that they are lies and oppression.

Reality: This is clipping and placing speech out of its context (batr al-kalām). It is a form of deception and dishonesty. Arafat presented this in isolation to aid the story that he is trying to craft about me. In reality, this statement was once again about religious scholars being specialists in the sciences of the deen, not in medicine, and therefore not being the conflict-resolvers in affairs of medicine. That is it.

By now, the reader should able to see a clear pattern. They are making distortions and sweeping generalisations out of sentences which they have isolated from their contexts and then putting words into my mouth through these distortions and mispresentations of what I said and intended.

Reality: Another distortion and fabrication. Though he is only making an indication, and did not mention any name, plenty of indicators (qarāʾin) and evidence indicate that he is referring to me.

It seems he is getting overtaken by emotion and his speech becomes confused and rambling. If he is referring to me, then this is not true, once again. I have never issued a fatwā stating that people who distance in the prayer have fallen into minor shirk, nor did I accuse the scholars and those who follow their fatāwā of validity of the prayer despite this distancing, as having fallen into minor shirk.

I have issued words of caution regarding relying on the means above Allah (al-iʿtimād ʿalā al-asbāb), and also regarding distancing among disease-free healthy people without a justifiable cause, which is a form of whispering (waswasah), exaggeration (ghuluww) and harbouring omens (taṭayyur) as Ibn Rajab, Sulaymān bin Ḥamdān, al-Albāni, and Ibn al-ʿUthaymīn have all mentioned (see here). This has been expounded on in other writings of mine, but there are those who deliberately misunderstand it out of evil intent, or more innocently from a laziness to read, or perhaps other factors.

As for when a person distances from actually sick people, or out of obedience to the rulers and to avoid discord, then I always enjoined obedience to the rulers.

However, Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī deceptively made it look as if I am accusing the rulers, scholars and everyone else of shirk. This is academic and intellectual dishonesty, far removed from any knowledge-based debate and discussion in the matter. This is another false claim aimed at shocking people and winning sympathy for his cause.

Reality: Total Lie. I affirmed the necessity of returning back to the scholars consistently and constantly in issues of worship and dealings impacted by the measures. As for health measures and policies, that is from the decisions of the rulers, and I explained many times that it is upon the scholars and the subjects to obey them in that.

There were scholars who disagree in these affairs, either in whole (such as Shaykh al-Luḥaydān) or in part, such as those scholars who did not agree with social distancing, but call to obedience to the ruler in any case, and this is what I also called to.

I thank the brother who wrote this excellent document (“The Covid Narrative”) explaining this matter very clearly from official government sources. Basically, this is empirical verification of the reality I had explained from early 2020, with a view to placing a protective shield around the scholars from being blamed for any of the harmful effects of the controversial, unscientific measures and the experimental injections.

Reality: This is untrue, it is a lie. My writings were largely a response to erroneous claims that were spread by certain students of knowledge, the exaggerations they were falling into, and wrongly ascribing things to some of the people of knowledge. I did not force anyone to accept my views, but I did discuss various affairs, religious, scientific and medical, with knowledge and evidence, as part of replying to these erroneous claims. It appears that they were unable to respond in substance to the knowledge and evidences presented, and hence took to other means to silence me.

Reality: This is false, it is a lie.

Summary

In September 2024, Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī spread numerous lies, fabrications and distortions on social media based on a private voice note specific to one person from May 2021. When asked for the voice notes he was basing his accusations on, he refused to provide them, and he also refused to name his translators. This is not the way of the people who are upon truth and those who follow the way of the People of Ḥadīth, where you refuse to reveal your source and you refuse to name your narrators (translators). This is the way of the people of falsehood who have got something to hide and something twisted going on.

There are numerous stages he went through:

01  The stage of posting outright lies, fabrications and distortions.

02  When the voice notes and evidence for his allegations were requested he started asking for a truce (ṣulḥ) and an arbitration (muḥākamah) deceptively treating it as a personal dispute.

03  Unable to provide evidence when requested, he and his translators went back to the audios to construct new lies. The next one was that I say: “A scholar cannot give fatwā in medical issues unless he becomes a specialist himself and gets qualifications.” So I refuted this lie and this attempt also failed.

04  Then he used the tactic of scandalmongering which is that he claimed I spoke ill of a shaykh with respect to whom I was quoting another person’s speech to illustrate the point that scholars do not settle medical disputes between people, as that is not their domain.

05  In this initial period, he failed, people criticised him and did not accept these actions, so he lost some credibility and was grieved by it. I remarked at the time, that he will not give up, will rethink his strategy and come back, which is what he went on to do.

06  Months afterwards in February, he started a brand new campaign, but this time, using proxies so that he can keep his own hands as clean as possible. He tried to penetrate the English-speaking daʿwah through his proxies. This new marketing campaign began when one of them posted an Arabic translation of a transcript of the short 8 minute voice note, the same one I had been asking about for close to a year beforehand and which he had refused to provide. Now all of a sudden, they placed it on social media, six months after it had been requested of them, and short of a year before I learned about it and made attempts to get hold of it from them.

07  The new tactic used by Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī—in a bid to distance himself from the initial lies, fabrications and slanders—was to make use of decontextualised statements from the voice note in question, the isolation and ambiguity of which allowed generalisations to be made. From them, “They will not oppose the rulers”, “They will not oppose the health policies” and what is similar and these were portrayed in the worst possible light and placed in the same category as the speech of the Quṭbiyyah and Surūriyyah.

08  So then some days afterwards on 16 February 2025, I released the full transcript (of close to an hour of audio) and once again their lies and distortions were exposed, and people did not believe them and saw through their antics.

09  Still not satisfied, Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī got his followers from Australia, Germany and other places to start posting things online, as part of an organised campaign. This was to create pressure, a form of intimidation.

Currently, Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī is in full swing in this stage of his campaign which started in February, continued during Ramaḍān 1446 (March 2024) and they are still at it now. Their aim is to make tabdīʿ of me, expel me from Salafiyyah, then to test people (make imtiḥān) on the matter, as to where they stand.

Indeed, they are already doing this in some European countries, and are willing to tear their own daʿwah apart in the process, despite their weakness and being overwhelmed by the Ḥizbiyyīn in their cities. This is not from wisdom, and certainly, this is not the way of the Rabbānī scholars such as Shaykh Rabīʿ bin Hādī and Shaykh ʿUbayd.

In short: Dr. ʿArafāt al-Muḥammadī is an unscrupulous individual who kindles tribulation or pours fuel onto it. He does not have the traits and behaviours of the people of knowledge (despite being seen as one who carries knowledge) and he has not displayed an ounce of intellectual and academic integrity in the arena of citation with integrity and criticising with justice, honesty and sincerity of purpose. Rather, he spread lies, made wild exaggerations and persisted in them despite being advised by people. He engaged in schemes and plots by mobilising his proxies and agents to troll, bully and intimidate to get his way, without any concern for the consequences of his irresponsible, harmful actions which are a world apart from way of the scholars. Then, he gaslights Salafīs by appearing to call for unity, love and patience, and to be kind and gentle with Salafīs, not harsh, making it appear as if he is the exemplar of that, when his deeds completely contradict whatever he says. All fair-minded, honest people can recognise and see this clearly.

Resources

Below are some resources regarding the matter. The first resource is a series of replies I made in October 2024. The second resource is a full transcript of the voice notes in question. They omitted the first voice note which was around 45 minutes in length and which falsifies their lies and distortions, and relied only on the shorter 8 minute voice note. The third resource is a detailed response to their doubts and includes important background and chronological history. The fourth and fifth resources contain speech of Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Luḥaydān (رحمه الله) whose views in these affairs I hold to be the truth.

For reference, here is a a detailed chronology document of the claims and accusations spread by Arafat on social media, that was prepared by someone else.

Update: Clarification 10 May 2025

Totally separate from all of these harmful activities from Dr. ʿArafat al-Muḥammadī and his followers, which are in violation of the Salafī methodology, I had sent my voice notes to a shaykh for review and he gave them to a number of people to examine. Some of them said they found nothing that comprises ill speech against the scholars, and there was no agreement between them that there was any ill speech against the scholars. The shaykh did explain that in translation from one language to another, the intent can be changed, due to variation in custom, tone, dialect, and cultural context of the speaker. Hence, the voice note cannot be evaluated and judged except in its original English language by native speakers. Nevertheless, from the angle of compromise (tanāzūl), in order to clear the air, cut off their fuel, and end the fitnah of these people, I clarified the few issues that had been suggested towards this end. I received this suggestion and advice on 6 May 2025.

Also, another shaykh to whom I had also sent my voice notes, he said that I have been lied upon and oppressed and that there is an attempt to take me down by certain people. He mocked their inability to grasp the point that disputes and differences in medicine are not returned to scholars of the Sharīʿah and called the one who demanded such a thing an idiot (aḥmaq).

You can read the clarification and background notes:

The things I have clarified:

By making this clarification, I have not changed my views and convictions regarding the Covid-19 pandemic response, the unscientific measures, and the harmful and failed experimental injections. Nor have I accepted or acquiesced to any of the fabrications and slanders that have been spread about me, such as those listed above. These remain fabrications and slanders and must be taken back.

The Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said:^[7]

Shaykh Rabīʿ bin Hādī (حفظه الله) said:^[8]

Shaykh Rabīʿ bin Hādī (حفظه الله) said:^[9]

Shaykh Rabīʿ bin Hādī (حفظه الله) was asked:^[10] “Is it permissible to lie upon the People of Innovations and others from the People of Misguidance?”

He answered:

A man may be forgiven for being mistaken, and reporting things which are untrue without knowing, but once the affair has been made clear, and he persists and does not recant from these lies and fabrications, he no longer has any excuse and is entered into the ranks of the liars.

For more on lying, and when and how a person is guilty of lying, and its evil effects, refer to:

• The Definition of Lying (Kadhib) and Its Forms
• Ibn al-Qayyim on the Inherently Corrupting Nature of Lying

Footnotes