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The concept of the Islamic world is useful in observing the different periods of Islamic history, similarly useful is an understanding of the identification with a quasi-political community of believersEvil Actions Evil Actions Ruling on Justifying Evil Actions by Saying That a Lot of People are Doing It
From Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 12/347
What is the ruling on a case when, if you tell a man or a woman, “What you are doing is haraam” – such as telling a woman not to wear short clothes, or telling a man not to smoke cigarettes – they reply by saying that everyone does that, or that all the women in our country dress this way?
Praise be to Allaah.
The response that you describe is wrong, and the people’s evil actions cannot be justified.
Allaah says [interpretation of the meaning] :“And if you obey most of those on the earth, they will mislead you far away from Allaah’s path” [al-An’aam 6:116] Rulings on what is halaal and what is haraam are taken from the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah of His Messenger [peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him] , not from what people do, because people may be wrong or they may be right.
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