Abu Taymiyyah – By Mufti Menk People Call Me Deobandi, Salafi & Chocolate Man
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One of the major problems happening especially in
this country is the act of labeling someone,
as Wahhabi and the other parties for proclaiming
themselves as,
So this is the situation is, I used
to follow 1 of the, well known Ustaz
in this country
and always quoted his words. But I encountered
some Facebook pages,
attacking him in one of the Waha'i and
broke with some screenshots of his wordings. But
both parties are holding Islam as their religion.
So what happened is it creates doubt in
my mind towards the Ustaz.
So, can I seek explanation for this issue?
Thank you.
I didn't want this catch question, but anyway,
it's the last one. So let's go for
it.
As much as I wouldn't like to address
the matter, I have to. Okay? Let me
explain something.
It's not an issue of Wahhabi, non Wahhabi,
what what people have been here for years
on end. It's an issue of intolerance.
It's an issue of extremism
on all parties.
I believe
every Ustaz
makes mistakes
without exception.
Take the good from all of them and
leave the bad. When someone preaches hatred against
another, discount it, and if you have the
opportunity go to them and tell them, please,
don't talk about other people. I want to
ask you a question, and I'm going to
stand for this.
You know who I am. Right?
I'm a brother of yours in faith. Have
you ever
heard me talk bad about another person?
Masha'Allah.
Masha'Allah.
The innocent have borne witness. Do you agree?
Why?
I have so much of goodness to share
with the world that I don't have time
to worry about others. Come on. Come on.
Those who talk about others don't have something
to present themselves.
I am busy doing my work. So many
people send me messages. Oh, someone called you
a wahabi. Someone called you a sufi, someone
said you're a salafi, someone said you're a
dewbandi, someone said you're a Baralvi. Some of
these names, I don't even know what they
mean, to be honest with you.
I was waiting for the day. They said
someone call you a chocolate man because that's
more that's true. You know? But all these
names for me, I say, hey. Look. I
know what I am. I'm a Muslim, and
I'm trying to spread a good message amongst
all groups. Let me carry on doing my
work. The minute I turn to fight them,
I become a fighter.
I cause a bigger problem. And now who's
going to do this good work? Because my
energy, like I said earlier, all the energies
are now being utilized, waste of resources,
to do something where it's going to be
less beneficial, in fact, destructive. So please do
yourself a favor.
When you hear labeling,
you need to be more intelligent than the
label. You need to rise above it and
tell yourself, whatever good is coming from this
person, I will take it. Whatever bad is
coming, I will discount it. The reason is
even if you belong to one group,
it does not mean the Ustazahs of your
group, everything they say is right. They will
also say wrong things. You will have to
pick it up.
Muhammad.
Provinces, I hope you're all good and in
the best of iman and health.
The clip that you just heard, I just
want to stand over it
and clarify the correct position in some of
the things that was mentioned by Mufti Menck.
But before I do that, brother and sister,
I just want you all to understand one
thing,
it's that which is related to refutations.
There's been a lot of speech going around
on social media, why you're not always refuting,
why is so and so just refuting, refuting,
refuting.
And I just want to touch on it
and explain what refutations
actually is.
You know, because we've got such a negative
understanding of what refutations are, we've basically closed
this door off altogether.
Rather in our religion,
as Sheikh Salih al Fawzan, may Allah
bless him
and give him a long life,
who is part of the major scholars.
Was from the major scholars in Saudi Arabia.
Very well known. Most people know who he
is.
He told us that the whole Quran is
a refutation.
You find time and time again Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala is rebuking the Jews and the
Christians
and those who lie against Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and his messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And this whole Quran has come as a
refutation.
But people have such a negative
understanding of what refutations is.
I could be telling my brother now who's
sitting in front of me here,
if he does something wrong and I correct
the mistake that he's doing, I've technically refuted
him.
Correcting the mistake of an individual by coming
out publicly and clarifying that mistake
could be seen as a refutation.
But just because you've rebuked or refuted him,
it doesn't necessitate
that
this person is a deviant or he's misguided.
I could do this to the closest of
those who cooperate with me in Dawah but
that doesn't necessarily necessary that he is a
misguided individual.
So I just want you all to understand
that.
And also, is it something that is recommended
or something that is wajib?
At times,
clarifying a mistake
could become wajib upon you.
Just like I was asked now, I'm not
allowed to conceal that knowledge
that I have been asked about.
Especially
now that it's becoming more and more problematic
amongst the people and more people are becoming
misguided regarding it and they're jumping up and
down with this kind of speech by Mufti
Menk. May Allah
bless him and give him tawfiq.
The prophet
said,
Whoever's asked about some knowledge
and he conceals it,
then this person will be bridled with a
bridle from the fire.
The hadith was narrated by Imam Hakim on
the authority
of Abu Hurairah radiAllahu an.
So it becomes wajib in some cases
that one speaks the truth and clarifies a
certain aspects of the religion especially when he
sees people becoming misguided.
Also the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he
said
Whoever
sees an evil, let him change
it
with
his
hand.
And if he can't do it with his
hands, then let him do it now with
his tongue.
And if he can't now do it with
his tongue, then let him change it with
his heart. And that is the weakest part
of an iman.
Also the prophet
brothers and sisters, he said
in hadith that was narrated by Imam Muslim
on the authority of Abdullah
Never was there a prophet that was sent
before me
from those nations who came before me
except that this Prophet had disciples.
They used to take his guidance as a
guidance and they used to take his as
a practice.
Then after that came people.
They began to say that which they
didn't do and they began to do things
that they weren't commanded to do.
Then the Prophet
he said,
Whoever strives against them
with his hand is a believer. Whoever strives
against them with his tongue is a believer.
Whoever strives against them with his heart he's
a Mu'min.
And after that there isn't a mustard grain
of iman remaining.
So clarifying
and rebuking
those people who might do things that the
Sharia or the prophet hasn't come with. Here
the prophet
is praising them. Also, he came another hadith
that was narrated by my Muhammad on the
authority of Abu Saeed Al Khuda
And the hadith was greater as Sahih by
Imam Muqbibil Hadeel wadiniskitabjam
al Sahih.
One should allow the fee as for the
people. Prevent him from speaking the truth
when he sees it, when he hears it,
and when he witnesses it.
Do you know Abu Sa'il Khudr said
commenting on this hadith,
I wish that I never heard it. Why?
Because now he has become incumbent upon him.
That when he sees an evil that he
needs to change it even though it's hard.
In some case, it becomes hard
to maybe speak the truth
in front of your loved ones, and those
people are close
with you.
So this is something that I wanted to
clarify.
That refutations
clarifying the doubts is something that is praiseworthy
in our religion. We shouldn't look at it
as Okay, this guy keeps doing it and
that guy keeps doing it.
Rather, it is a wajib that has been
taken off our necks.
Because some people have gone and established it.
Also, Imam
and sisters, he said
and
he quoted this.
If
I'm quiet and you're quiet as well, how
are the people going to differentiate between the
ignorant individual
and also the one who's upon clarity, the
one that's upon goodness?
If everyone decides to keep quiet now, how
are the people going to know?
So we have the issues of refutations.
How do we go about doing it?
You know brothers and sisters,
many people have come up to me and
they've asked me about Mufti Mink
and whether we should take knowledge from him
and things like that. And when they actually
came and asked me this,
they would say things like Mufti Menck,
he doesn't quote it all hate.
So time and time again I told these
brothers, guys,
ibn Ataymih said,
When speaking about the people,
it should be done with 2 things,
knowledge and being fair.
You need to be just in your speech
and not with ignorance and oppression
like the people of innovation do. Ibn Taym
said
this.
No.
So when we speak about others it needs
to be done with these two things: Knowledge
and
Adl,
justice.
So time and time again I told these
brothers,
guys, Mufti Menck has videos on YouTube where
he's calling to Tawhid, and I would send
them these videos.
Then they would come up to me, they
would say to me he doesn't want against
Bida, he doesn't want against innovation.
And again I would say to them, guys
there's videos on YouTube. Well, he's clarifying
the danger of innovation and things like that.
So for us to try and score brownie
points against Mufti Menck
and try to get anything to maybe criticize
him with is totally wrong. This is not
part of our minhaj.
We don't just start nitpicking
and looking for things to just criticize a
person with in order to take him off
the scene.
This is not something our Quran has told
us to do. Rather he said to us
Don't allow the hatred you might have for
a people to prevent you from being just
in your speech. Allah said also
and when you speak be just.
So we can't do this. It's not something
that our sharia allows.
Even against the kafir.
So I hope you understand that. So there
will be times I would defend Mufti Mek
from these kind of allegations against him because
we can't just we just can't say these
kind of things about him when the reality
of the matter says otherwise.
But now after hearing this
speech from Uffty Mink and the fact that
I might be criticizing it, it doesn't necessarily
or necessity that I might see a certain
person to be a deviant
or misguided individual.
So brothers and sisters,
there was 2 speeches
or two statements that he mentioned that was
I feel is very, very dangerous.
The first one when he stands up
and
he says to the people, guys have you
ever heard me
speaking bad about others?
Okay. That's a very general ambiguous statement.
If it means backbiting,
then even our Sharia tells us not to
backbite one another.
If it's pertaining speaking badly about other deviant
*
and you can see from the siyak of
the kalam
the context of where he said that
he was speaking about the * that he
was asked about, Salafi, Wahhabi,
then it is not something to be proud
of.
It is not something to
maybe mention to the people in a way
that
is a praise
praiseworthy attribute
or
characteristic.
Because there would be times when even the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
he criticized certain groups. He said about the
Qadariya
to the
Qadariya are the medjus of this Ummah.
So here, the you have the prophet saying
that. He criticized the Khawarij.
He said,
If I was to meet these people,
I would massacre them. And Allah tells us,
Do you see any remains of the people
of 'Ad?
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
criticized. Even they came There was a time
when Hadid Aisha
A man wanted to enter upon him
and the Prophet
gave him permission
to come in after he left. The prophet
he said,
What a bad member of his tribe he
is.
Do you know what Imam Bukhari
said about this hadith?
He used this as a justification.
The permissibility
of
backbiting the people of facade, the people of
corruption and the people of doubts.
So
as you can see from these adillah
proofs and evidences,
to be proud of something like this is
not something that is praiseworthy.
Likewise, you have Abdullah ibn Umar
Umar
was a great tabi'i, came up to me
and he said there's people
who pursue knowledge, they're seeking knowledge.
And these people they claim that
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala doesn't know
that which takes place until after it takes
place.
So this pen I have,
until I drop it, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
doesn't know.
Abdullah ibn Umar
didn't say
that which Mufti Menk is saying now may
Allah give him Tawfiq and bless him.
Have you ever heard me speaking bad about
the people?
Rather he criticized them and he said tell
these people
They are free from me and I'm free
from them.
And then he said,
If any of you had a mountain of
gold and you gave this in charity, it
won't be accepted from you until you believe
in the Qadr.
He freed himself from these kind of people
and this is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
tells us.
Leave them and that which
they fabricate against Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So it is not something praiseworthy brothers and
sisters to say a statement like that and
as you can see in the video, all
of them people that were there they started
laughing
and a lot of people have run with
it and I'm just trying to point this
out. So people they don't fall into the
same problem.
The second thing that was mentioned in that
clip of Mufti Minq, may Allah bless him.
Him saying,
take the good from the people and leave
the bad. Every Ustad has mistakes.
Take the good and leave the bad.
The type of mistakes that we can tolerate
or not. I'm going to make this inshallah
into another video
because that requires research
and a more detailed explanation.
When the person
falls into a mistake when it comes to
the usool and when it comes to the
All of them were going to come on
today Inshallah in another
video where I'm going to explain this issue
independently.
But that statement brother and sister of allahu
which was more worse than the first one
and it really really hurt me because people
are now
going to go to every dom they can
harry and take knowledge from him.
They're going to as he was mentioned take
the good and leave the bad. Which I
totally think is
very hard to actually point to application. And
I'll tell you that why.
An ignorant person
who hasn't learned the religion of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, he doesn't know his basics.
You take him to a person now
who inside is hiding
his ISIS beliefs or his extreme beliefs.
A lot of these guys who promote ISIS,
they're not going to they're not going to
quote you fabricated a hadith.
They bring you verses from the Quran.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Allah says in
verse number
They're going to bring you verses from the
Quran.
But as the prophet
was telling him, he told us
They say to you the best speeches,
the best of the speeches, they'll bring you
ayaat from the Quran, they'll bring you a
hadith from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
but it doesn't go past their
necks. They use these ayat but it's not
done in its proper place.
I can bring you so many ayats
and make you believe something,
but it
has been taken out of context.
Hence why so many non muslims have a
wrong image about Al Islam.
Because you have some of these people who
have grabbed some ayaat
and jumped with it and they started promoting
it.
Wallahi brothers and sisters, this statement is going
to open a big fat door
for us to start taking knowledge from the
likes of these people.
And it could be the reason why they
go out abroad and start blowing themselves
up. Wallahi have seen this. And I'll give
you an example.
Anwar Al Awlaki.
90% of what he said was Allah
said in his messenger sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
By 10% of that, he brought your ayat
and he brought your hadith.
But what happened?
He took it out of context. I knew
people who were close to me.
They started attending his lessons.
They learnt from him. The seerah and things
like that.
But they also
became convinced that it's okay to go and
blow yourself up. Someone that I knew came
out on Facebook
and started saying it's okay to go blow
yourself up. Why? Because Anwar al Awlaki said,
and he used this hadith as a proof.
When the reality of the matter after I
looked into it, things got taken out of
context.
How is this ignorant person now going to
differentiate between that which is good and that
which is not good?
Except by learning the religion of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and taking it from his correct
sources.
Someone's going to come up to you and
tell you that it's okay,
that
you can now make dua to those in
the grave. I've heard this in my own
ears. Someone coming out on the Lester radio
and I was sitting there and it shocked
me saying that Imam Ahmed
said, you can now and ask the people
inside the grave.
Taos.
And people like this will quote
you
They'll quote you Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
in the messenger of Allah alaihi wa sama
said.
So how are women to stay quiet
about these kind of things?
Firstly, we have now
made clear that it is not praiseworthy
keeping quiet
about some of the innovation and some of
these dangerous things that take place.
And also now we've clarified the danger
of just going to any person and taking
knowledge from him. Well, like this is going
to maybe open doors
for our brothers to go out and seek
knowledge from
those who are abroad, people like ISIS
or from an individual now who promotes the
permissibility
of making dua to a person inside the
grave. Which ends up being shirk. I could
be
exiting out of the fold of Islam by
taking knowledge from a person like this.
If I don't know what is right and
what is wrong. And most people don't.
So brother
and brothers and sisters
and especially this is a message to Mufti
Mink
to take heed
and
not to be stubborn about what you have
said or to be arrogant about it. I'm
not trying to say you are but just
warning you of some of the verses where
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says
Whoever now turns away from my remembrance,
this person will be afflicted with a depressive
life.
And who we brought blind.
Allah
then says quoting them
Why have you brought me today and I'm
blind and I was able to see?
Our verses came to you and you left
it off.
And today you're going to be forgotten.
So please, brother, take heed. Allahu Azzawajal told
us to leave these people.
Leave them and that which they fabricate against
the religion of Allah
There's people like that. How can we sit
with them and at the same time
take what we want and leave what we
want?
When I personally don't have the fundamentals
of knowing how to differentiate between the 2
And a lot of the time you find
that the person he becomes connected to personalities.
His teacher, he loves him.
He becomes attached to him and he begins
to take everything that he mentions to him.
Maybe because of his voice will lie people
that were close to me.
They began to seek knowledge, taking the knowledge
from these kind of people, they became attached.
And they were given doubts about the religion
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.