Enjoining the Good and Forbidding Evil: Can Islamic Scholars Engage with Tyrants to Reduce Oppression?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Enjoining the Good and Forbidding Evil: Can Islamic Scholars Engage with Tyrants to Reduce Oppression?
English:
Question #1071:
Is it permissible for high-ranking Islamic clerics to visit and associate with tyrants and tyrannical rulers if it leads to a decrease in their tyranny?
Answer #1071:
If it is proved for the cleric in such cases that his links with the tyrant lead to prevention of tyranny and are effective in stopping him from the evil, or the cleric considers an important issue which has to be taken care of and followed up, there is no problem in it.