What is the ruling on fatwas that absolutely prohibit Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and to what extent does this prohibition affect benefiting from its positive aspects? And is it possible to adopt its positive elements while abandoning its negative ones, similar to the establishment of diwans in Islam?
The mere presence of some positives in something harmful is not enough to deem it permissible. Alcohol, for instance, was forbidden because its harms outweighed its benefits. Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) poses risks to a person's creed and religion, which is why specialists have warned against it. There is no objection to benefiting from the sciences of non-Muslims that are useful to Muslims, nor from benefiting from what non-Muslims say that aligns with the truth. However, this is not the case with the aforementioned programming.
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