Salafi Research Institute SRI
Translated
Abu az-Zubayr Harrison
‘Abd al-‘Azīz Ar-Rājihī 1 on Political Demonstrations 2
Question:
What is your opinion of those who say political demonstrations are allowable in order to pressure the leaders or governments?
Answer:
These demonstrations are not from the actions of Muslims. They are foreign (to Islam) and were never known except by way of the western countries of disbelief.3
NOTES
1 ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Ar-Rājihī: One of the leading scholars and instructors of Saudi Arabia today.
2 This fatwā was taken from a book called “al-Fatāwā al-Shar’iyyah fī al-Qadhāyā Al-‘Asriyyah,” a collection of various rulings by Muhammad Ibn Fahd al-Ḥusayn.
3 Taken from the magazine: Safīnah al-Najāḥ (no. 2, Janurary 1997).
