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Demonstrations only became known through the West | Shaykh al Fawzan ﷾
Question: When Hay’at Kibar-ul-‘Ulama committee ot senior scholars released the Fatwa about demonstrations being forbidden due to their disadvantages, there were some who divided demonstrations into two categories
They said that they are allowed if they are peaceful and devoid of destruction, devastation, looting and mixing between the sexes and are performed only for the purpose of demanding rights. And If they consist of destruction, sabotage and devastation, they would then be considered to be forbidden. How do you refute them?
Shaykh al-Fawzan: We ask him if demonstrations have any basis with the Muslims, regardless of which era. Demonstrations only became known through west.
There are no demonstrations in Islam at all. Islam calls for orderliness, peace and tranquility and warns from chaos. Rights are not achieved through chaos and turmoil
Rights are only achieved through prescribed ways and not through demonstrations. No one has been hindered from submitting his complaint or (hindered) from asking for his right. No one has been hindered from this.
As for the demonstrations, they do not belong to Islam. I say and repeat: They do not belong to Islam or the character of the Muslims
They have only come to us through the western societies to split the Jama’ah (community), disperse the people and start animosities.
That is their purpose.
(Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymin said that demonstrations are from the newly Invented matters and that they were not known to the prophet or the Sahabah.)
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