Question
Some Ulama say that in these times, the testimony of a respectable faasiq is valid and should be accepted. They argue that there are respectable and honourable Muslim elders who despite shaving their beards are responsible and are involved in many Sadqah and Thawaab projects for the benefit of the poor. Is this argument valid?
Answer
How can this argument ever be valid when the Shariah rejects the testimony of a Faasiq? This opinion of some Ulama is in conflict with the Shariah. It is baseless. It is not structured on any principle of the Shariah. It is mere personal opinion having no valid basis.
While a beardless man one who shaves his beard may be ‗respectable' and ‗honourable' for people and molvis of the dunya, he is Mal-oon (Accursed) and Mabghoodh (Abhorrent) to Allah Ta'ala. The La‟nat of Allah Azza Wa Jal settles on him perennially, every moment of his life as long as his face looks like a skinned pig carcass.
Regardless of the faasiq's many charity projects and the like, he should never be trusted. Hadhrat Hasan Basri (Rahmatullah alayh), or it may be some other Buzrug of the Taabieen era said that a faasiq will sell you for a piece of bread.
A man on whose face fisq is audaciously intagliated and who displays blithe disregard for the Law of Allah Ta'ala is never respectable and honourable in terms of the Shariah. He is Mardoodudh Shahaadat (one whose testimony is rebuffed and rejected) in the unanimous Ruling of the Fuqaha.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
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- The Majlis Vol 27 No 12
- PDF page
- 21
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