How should Muslims verify news?

With important information. Information that cannot be rejected. Information that cannot be ignored. Then seek evidence to bolster or reject this news that he has brought to you. Here Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, oh you have believed. If they fast, if they fast, if a in Islamic legislation is considered someone who has not repented from major sin. Someone who has not repented from major sin. When I say repented, meaning that this person used to do something but they have changed their ways. This is repenting or this person got caught doing something and they were punished for it. They're now considered innocent, right? In the Arabic language, this word comes from the root word which is was seen. In this order, this a nation of letters, articulates something emerging and something falling away after being after being on something. So, for instance, the Arabs usually use this word to articulate when someone peels the skin off of a fruit, let's say an orange. They will describe this act here as Fasakah. Or when a fruit grows and it sheds its outer skin end. This is referred to from the same root word as and so, it's somebody in the Islamic law. It's someone who is upon Islam and then, their Islam erodes by committing a major sin that they have not repented from. This person is considered a there are certain things in the Quran, certain things in the Sunnah. If you do them even one time, the person who does this is a for instance, insulting another Muslim. Insulting a Muslim is Fusook. The prophet said that. Insulting a Muslim is Muslim is So, doing that even once is considered the person who does this a festival. But it may be other things that a person becomes a due to major sins that they have not repented from etcetera. The point here is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says oh you have believed. If a comes to you, with an undeniable piece of information Now, he uses the word Nebah. Nebe and Chabar in the Arabic language, same word except that a Neba is only in really important things. We call it a this is a piece of news. We that is really important. It's not just information. It is a Neba. Alright? This Neba means that this person who is a brings to us something that he says he saw, something that he said he heard. Something that is going on. Something that happened. But it's not just anything, it's a never. it's something that we can't just brush aside. We have to look into it because it's important It's a matter of it's a matter of safety. It's a matter of something that we need to find an answer, a conclusion to. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that seek to validate this information or invalidate it. How do we do that? Maybe with another person's testimony and we're sure that these two people have not met each other. Or maybe by going to the scene to see whatever it is or verifying. So we are to verify. We're not to just accept out of the blue. We look at this person. This person is someone who could lie. Maybe isn't. So, we have to verify now. Notice the wording, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, meaning that if it is a is opposite of in Islamic law. If it's a someone we know to be a good person upon Islam, We know nothing of lying from this person. We don't know that they are ever been dishonest with us. We don't know any anything bad about the person but Hiro they tell us something, we accept it. The essence, the the norm is that god-fearing person does not lie. The norm is that he could lie but he doesn't. That's the exception. Right? And the norm is that a person who is a lies. Not saying everything he says is a lie. We're saying, the norm is that he lies. It's not a big deal to them. If it's not a big deal for this person to do something that is a major sin. A little lie or a little embellishment isn't going to be a big issue for that kind of person. It's not someone We know them as someone who doesn't watch what they say. They don't measure their words. And so, Allah tells us to verify. And so verification may be in a number of ways. However, even if it comes out to be correct and true, the principle is, is that we accept the information but we may not accept the opinion There's a difference between someone's opinion, someone's analysis, and someone's testimony. We don't want them to give us an opinion. We want them to give us a testimony. This is what I saw. This is what I heard. This is what I know. That's it. Not to tell us. This is what my opinion is or this is what we should think about it or this is a conclusion that we should come to or this is what we should do as a reaction because that has its people Formulating opinions, everyone has them, and most of them are not very useful. We'll continue tomorrow inshallah.