Haram Haqiqatjou #22: Slandering Yasir Qadhi as a “brazen reformist”

Background

One of Haqiqatjou’s primary victims of slander and lies is Yasir Qadhi. Across various social media platforms, Haqiqatjou has slandered Qadhi repeatedly, name-calling him and infamously referring to him as one of many “compassionate imams”. In this message to over 26k Telegram followers, and all over YouTube and Twitter, Haqiqatjou accuses Qadhi of being a “brazen reformist” for his orthodox opinion that scientific calculations can – and in Qadhi’s opinion, should – be relied upon for moonsighting.

Haram Action

Haqiqatjou outright lies about Yasir Qadhi’s approach to fiqhi matters and slanders him in the process. He claims that Qadhi’s ijtihad follows a methodology that “belittles traditional positions and minimizes fiqh”, and “promotes the modernist/reformist position without evidence”. These are lies of the highest order, and would be punishable without evidence in an Islamic court of law. They also paint a picture of Qadhi as an opportunist, a deviant, and one whose intention is to distort Islamic orthodoxy. All of these claims are lies and contrary to the overwhelming decades of evidence of the good that Qadhi has put forth for the Ummah at large.

Evidence of Haram

As Qadhi stated in a Facebook post in September 2017, “My sins, and the sins of others, will not harm you on Judgment Day. But your sensationalizing those sins, spreading gossip about them, and making them the subject of your meeting places and gatherings may very well cause you distress on Judgment Day, so beware.”

Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Five sins cannot be expiated: idolatry with Allah, killing a soul without a just case, slandering a believer, fleeing the battlefield, and bearing false witness to consume the wealth of another without right.”

Source: Musnad al-Shāmiyyīn 1161