Abu Taymiyyah – Are Salafis 200 years old! Clarification on Imam Asim Hussains video about Salafiyah
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Like, we need to talk about any of
the
issues. Polonialism,
Darwinism,
atheism,
brothers and sisters, insha Allahu ta'ala, in this
set,
what I wanna speak about
is a Salafiya.
Due to there being so many misconceptions,
people having misunderstood
what a salafiya means,
people being allergic to the word salafi
and a salafiya.
We want to
portray and explain to the people
what it truly means.
And another
misconception people have
that Salafis
are against the scholars.
People like Imam Ahmed, people like Imam Al
Shafi'i, Imam Malik, Imam
So InshaAllahu ta'ala, we
hope
to clarify
and clear up any misunderstandings regarding the word
Salafi
so that we are all upon clarity.
So one can either become distracted
while being upon clarity, or he can live
while being upon clarity.
Brothers and sisters,
in Islam, may Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la bless
you all and make you from those that
are righteous.
Where did this word Salif come from? Does
it have an Asal?
Does it have
an origin in our religion?
It came inside a Muslim
that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said to
Fatima,
his daughter
What
an excellent
Salaf I am to you.
The meaning of Salaf,
it means Predecessor, so he is saying to
Fatima
what an excellent
Salaf Predecessor I am to you, O Fatima.
May Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala be pleased with her.
So when a person now says Salafi yun,
who is he ascribing to?
He is ascribing
to the Quran al Mufawalla,
The 3 blessed golden generations,
those that were mentioned in the Hadith, when
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said Khayrukum karni
the best of you
is my generation.
Then those that come after them, and those
that come after them.
And also, one thing that we need to
bear in mind
is a principle from the Arabic language.
We have now the word Salef, which means
predecessor.
And you've got something else that have been
connected to it, which is Yun,
which in the Arabic language is called You
Nisba,
the You
that ascribes.
So
when I have now
said
that
when we know the origin of this word
now is Yemen, is the country Yemen.
If I have now added u at the
end, I am now ascribing myself to a
Yemen.
And likewise with the word Somali,
if one says, Anna Somali yun, adding the
yun at the end, the yaun isba, he
is now ascribing himself to who? Somalia.
If a person says Sudan,
which is the country Sudan,
Sudan,
he is now ascribing himself to
Sudan.
And
it goes on with any word that you
want to.
Obviously, if you're trying to ascribe something to
something,
you have to put the Yun at the
end.
This is something, a side benefit,
from the Arabic language.
So when a person now says Salaf
FiYun,
he has added now the Yun at the
end, he's ascribing himself to who? The Quran
and Mufabbala,
the 3 golden generations.
The Sahaba,
the Tabi'in, the Tabi'i Tabi'in.
Brothers and sisters,
it is not a party. It is not
a group. It is not
partisanship.
Rather, it is the way
that one has been commanded to follow as
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said to him,
from those that have proceeded with Sabi'un and
Awalun of the Muhajireen and the Ansar and
then Allah
says
Those who then follow them
in goodness
RadiAllahu
anhu.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is pleased with them,
and
they are pleased with them as well.
Brothers and sisters, if I can try and
explain this in more simple terms,
Salafiya
is to pick up the Quran
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
The Sunnah of the Messenger sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam
and understand it the way the Sahaba Ridwanullah
yalayim understood
it. It is as simple as that.
The way Ibn Abbas
the way Ibn Masood, Abdullahi Masood, Abu Bakr
radiAllahu anhu, Umar ibn Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan,
Ali RadiAllahu anhu,
Allahumma'alimu
Ta'weel, Allahumma'alimu Fatihufideen, Allahumma'alimu
Quran, Oh Allah teach him the Quran,
Oh Allah, teach him the taweel. Oh Allah,
give him understanding in the religion.
Taking the Quran and understanding it the way
they understood it, this is what Salafiya means.
Prophet and sister, it's not fair because you
have seen
a badly
ill mannered individual who is ascribing to the
Salaf
as if it is some football team going
on about it, banging on about it,
as some they tend to do,
it's been turned into a banner, a slogan,
and it's become like as if we're trying
to push a gang.
Wallahi, this is not Salafiya.
Raw bait is something that is open for
anyone now
to come
and put into practice
that which the Salaf Ridwanullahye
a'layim put into practice. The Quran and the
Sunnah, the way
of whose understanding? The Sahaba Ridwanullah Waheem is
understanding.
That is what Salafi is. When it comes
to Aqeedah, the belief,
Believing that which they believed.
When it comes to Suruq, when it comes
to the behavior,
when it comes to Manhaj, the methodology,
the way of the Salaf
and everything else, Muhamalat, the dealings, the akhlaq,
the etiquettes that we have,
it needs to be in accordance to who?
The Sahaba Radwanullahi Alaihi. The Tabi'ayn, the Tabi'i
Tabi'ayn, the Quran and Mufath are the 3
golden generations.
This is what a Salafiya is.
And there's no shame regarding this. As Ibnatayim
Al Rahim Allahu Ta'ala mentioned,
in Majmoo Al Fatawah,
volume number 4, page 149,
where he said,
walaAAibaalam
and adharaman have a salif. There is no
aib. There's no shame. There's no embarrassment
regarding the individual now that
comes out openly
with
the way of the Salaf.
And the one thou that ascribes to it
and associates himself to it.
Rather, it is mandatory that we accept this.
This has been
unanimously agreed upon.
La yaqoonu illa haqqah.
For indeed, the malhabasalaf
cannot be accept
the truth.
So there's no problem regarding it.
Likewise,
Imam Adhabi rahimullah ta'alahe said,
that which the hafil
needs.
He mentioned some of the characteristics
Hafid needs and from the things that he
mentioned,
that he needs to be a salafi.
Salafi,
someone that ascribes to the suhaba.
His actions
are in accordance to their actions. His dealings
are in accordance
to their dealings.
It's not just the name that we go
on about, rather it is action.
It's like one saying that he's a Muslim,
and then he doesn't come with that which
al Islam requires of him.
He doesn't come with a shahada, and then
he claims an Islam. Can we say this
person is a Muslim? We can't say that
person is a Muslim.
Likewise, Salafi.
Someone claiming to be upon the way of
the Salaf,
and then it completely goes against what the
Sahaba Ridwan alayhi believed, this is not Salafiya.
Rather it is to just pick up the
Quran, brothers and sisters, I don't know a
simpler way to put this
and to understanding the way the Sahaba Ridwanullah
Salaheem understood it
and that's what a Salafiya is,
So brothers and sisters ask you, Billahi Alaik,
it's fair now
that because of what some people have done,
we take the whole Da'wah to Salafiya
and
we throw it to the side simply because
of how maybe Fulan
and I learned
this person and that person behaved
and ascribed to the Salaf.
In reality,
the Salaf are free from this
and I beg you all, do not base
and make a judgment
due to what you saw from certain individuals
who are claiming Salafiya.
Rather, look at the scholars
of the past
and those that have just recently passed away,
and those who are alive today,
From the scholars that are Ma'arouf, well known.
From those that have just recently passed away,
people like Sheikh Uthaimin.
Go read his books,
How he dealt with the people. Sheikh Bimbaaz,
Rahmahullah
Ta'ala,
Sheikh Al Albani,
Sheikh Mookbeli, Nahaadi Al Wadi'a'i.
The way they dealt with the people,
the dawah that they gave
when it came to putting things in its
proper place.
Especially just look at the dealings they had
with the people and how they dealt with
them.
And then you have the scholars of this
time, people like who? Sheikh Sal Alfuzhan,
who is currently in Riyadh. Read his books,
look at the way he behaves, the way
he deals.
Do not base it upon some certain individuals
that you might find in Britain who are
running with the slogan of a salafiya.
Look at the scholars,
Sheikh Salih al Fozan, Sheikh Salih al Louhaydan,
Sheikh Abdul Musin al Abbad
and also
Sheikh Saad al Chitiri,
and other than them that you find today
upon the face of this earth.
That's only some of them that have basically
come to our mind at the moment, but
there's many others that you can look at.
Look at the scholars and the way they
deal with the people, and do not look
at those
who may be new to the Dawah.
And they corrupt and they destroy more than
that which they rectify.
And then people think this is Salafiya.
And some of these people haven't even smelled
the fragrance of knowledge, come close to it.
But because of emotion
and personality,
they tend to treat things in a certain
way.
We ask Allah
to make a salafis in reality,
following the way of the Sahaba,
following
the way
of the tabi'ayn and the tabi'ayn
in that which is preceded.
And another misconception, insha'Allah, that I want to
mention
is that a Salafiya
or the Salafis
are against
the 4 Imma.
They disrespect the 4 Imma.
Wallahi, this is another misconception.
You won't find any of the scholars today
who claim to follow the way of the
Salaf, who ascribe themselves to a Salafiya
ever speaking ill
of these Ima, whether it is Imam Abu
Hanifa,
whether it is Sheikh Abdul Muhsan Al Abad,
Sheikh Salih al Sahimi
and other than them speaking ill of these
great scholars that have preceded us,
Rather,
we have excuses for them
in that which they
are ad din
and we don't say anybody is perfect.
Rather, we say that which Imam Malik Rahim
Allahu Ta'ala said,
There's no statement except that it gets either
accepted or rejected
apart from the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallamani
pointed at the grave.
Imam Ibn Battaim
has a whole book,
Where he talks about the scholars
defending them, defending their honor.
Sometimes maybe a great Imam like Imam Abu
Hanifa or Imam
Ahmed came and gave a fatwa regarding a
matter.
But he gave that fatwa incorrectly.
Nobody is Masom, nobody is infallible, they're gonna
make mistakes.
And we ask Allah to reward them because
this is what the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
said.
A Mushta'id is someone that strives,
falls into a mistake when trying to strive,
he gets one reward,
and if he's not correct, he gets 2
rewards.
Sometimes, they give a fatwa,
and maybe
they gave a fitwa in such a way
that
could be for many different reasons.
Maybe sometimes even a hadith reached someone like
Imam Abu Hanifa.
But because he saw that chain of narration,
to have defects in there,
he decided to disregard the hadith, which is
an excuse for him.
Or maybe sometimes when he gave a fatwa,
they may have forgotten the actual ruling or
the hadith,
and they gave a fatwa in such a
way.
Or maybe
the Hadith
reached them, but they saw it to be
abrogated,
and there's many many exclusions that we can
give them, but rather all of them were
in agreement.
They connected the people to the Quran, to
the Hadith.
That doesn't mean we disregard them, we put
them to the side. Ra, but we look
at the aqwal, the ishtihad, we respect it.
And likewise,
Imam al Shafi
said, if you ever find a statement that
goes
if you ever find my statement that goes
against the Quran, they'll soon throw against the
word.
Take from that which We took from. The
point is, they connected people to the Quran
or Sunnah,
and we don't disrespect the ulama who have
made mistakes.
Rather there's many excuses that we can give
them, and Ibn Taymah
has a whole book
which finds many excuses for them, And we
ask
Allah
to benefit us from that which we heard.
Subhanu kAllahu wa bihamdik.