It is obligatory
upon every Muslim to accept the truth from whoever comes with it, because the
truth is the lost property of a believer; he takes it wherever he finds it;
either with his friend or his enemy because he seeks for the truth. But if he considers
individuals only, such is considered the way of the people of the pre-Islamic
days of ignorance. An example of such is what Allaah mentioned concerning the Jews
and the Christians – and they are the people of the Book and Knowledge. The Jews
rejected the truth that was with the Christians and the Christians rejected the
truth with the Jews as stated by Allaah regarding them: “The Jews say, ‘The Christians have
nothing [true] to stand on,’ and the Christians say, ‘The Jews have nothing to
stand on…’”[1]
What made them to do this was
following of desires. Since the Jews hated the Christians, they rejected what
they possessed of the truth and because the Christians hated the Jews, they
also rejected what was with them of the truth: “Although they [both] recite the Scripture,” that commanded
them to accept the truth. So those who do not have Scripture have followed this
methodology; each sect declaring the other as disbeliever and rejecting what it
possesses of the truth.
In brief, it is obligatory upon
the Muslim to eschew this methodology of the Jews and the Christians, which is
to reject the truth if it is with someone whom they do not love. So do not
allow the hatred you have for an individual make you to reject the truth that
is with him. The example of this is what is in existence today. If a group or a
sect hates one of the scholars, they will reject the truth that is with him; so
their hatred of this scholar will make them to reject the truth he possesses,
abandon him, warn against his works and lectures even if it is the truth. Why? There
is no reason other than the fact that they do not love this individual.
Hence, it is obligatory upon you,
O you Muslim to accept the truth even it is with the person you do not love and
do not allow personal animosities and desires prevent you from accepting the
truth.
Source: Sharh Masaail
al-Jaalihiyyah, pp. 128-130 by Shaykh Saalih bin Fawzaan
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