Abu Taymiyyah – EMOTIONAL Those who WARN against the Conference Q&A Shaykh Saalih As Suhaymee
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We have a question that says many people
advised me to not attend this conference because
some of the speakers are innovators.
I will I will not.
Based on fatwa from there, Sheikh, how do
you respond to this?
Alhamdulillah, you attended.
What is obligatory upon us, respected brothers and
sisters, is that we must
cooperate with one another
upon,
piety and righteousness and spreading the
correct methodology and the path of the Salaf,
the pious predecessors
in this Masjid and center
and other mosques and centers.
And, people who won against others
should not deviate us from this path.
And,
we should not really
be attached too much to that. And we
ask Allah to guide us and them
and,
to follow the the path of the big
scholars, senior scholars
who, advise us to concentrate on seeking knowledge
and spreading
of the pious predecessors.
And who must be serious in that and,
put serious effort
into that.
So we shouldn't really look at that, at
people who accuse us or others of being
innovators
without,
right.
And therefore, if we know that something is
the truth, we must follow it. We must
follow it. We must not deviate from it.
And unfortunately, a lot of people get distracted
and taken away from the lessons,
that are very beneficial to people of different
shirk,
and different scholars,
due to those people who won against them.
So we ask Allah to guide them and
to guide us and everyone unite them upon
the truth.
And we should not, pay attention,
should concentrate,
on seeking knowledge and not spreading what someone
said and someone accused
and others because that can be,
spread by people who want to,
besmirch the reputation
or,
the
personality
of certain individuals.
They may, for example, take certain
statements.
They may not fully give that or they
may make people,
make conclusions, certain conclusions that are not logical.
And as we know from our big scholars
from the Mufti,
the main, the grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia,
Sheikh Alusheikh and Sheikh Salah Al Fawzan and
others from the committee of senior scholars,
they all tell us to concentrate on spreading
the beneficial knowledge
and to follow the correct scholars
who spread,
and have been doing so for
very many years. And this issue of differing
between the scholars is not new. It has
happened in the history of Islam, and it
has happened between different scholars
who sometimes
were a little bit harsh against each other.
Some of them called,
each other some names which are not appropriate,
and therefore, we should not,
we should not really pay attention to that,
especially when it's not based upon clear proof
and it's a new innovation, a new way
that has been, has is being spread around.
And if you look at this country, you
find that the Muslims,
let alone the people who follow the path
of the Salaf,
the correct path,
in a huge minority.
Tiny, I mean, minority.
And it's not permissible for us to engage
in,
these,
issues
to divide us and to allow it to
divide us and to distract us from the
main work that we do. But rather we
should fear Allah and follow the path of
the truth
and make sure that no one can penetrate
our ranks and divide
us. And we ask Allah, first of all,
to enable the scholars
to unite the ranks of the people of
the Sunnah,
and then us to,
enable us to follow them and, actually support
them.
Finally, I would like, the Sheikh said, to
draw the attention of people who may hear
this,
or anyone else that, we are not saying
that, we are not brothers to those people
who may consider us maybe innovators.
We ask Allah to forgive us and them
and to god to guide us and them.
And we we do not want also this
to be attributed
to some who have very good and who
have been attending these events, who have very
good efforts,
and have been doing their reputations
of the people of innovations.
And some people call each other very bad
names like Madhkali,
Madhkaliyun,
or the followers of Sheikh
Rabi or Rabi Yoon. This is not appropriate
for us to call one another these names.
But rather, we must try to avoid,
to tolerate
some of the,
difference that we may have. We must try
and unite.
And Sheikh Salih al Fozal
Afidahullah, may Allah protect him. He said that
generally,
a person who makes a mistake is of
3 types.
A person who made a mistake that has
a lot of good deeds, that this mistake
is actually lost in the multitude of his
good deeds And this person, of course, we
should not say anything bad about. A person
who makes a number of mistakes,
who should be advised but not boycotted
and not called bad names. And the third,
who actually is happy to accept
the people of innovation and their innovations. Then
in this case, his case should be taken
to the senior scholars
and drawn attention to him who will be
able to advise
on this affair.
So therefore,
no one should understand
that we are calling to actually
the issue and the way of Muazana, which
means that the person or the person of
Bida, if he's really
warning against him, or that we are trying
to dilute the true methodology of the Salaf.
Therefore, if someone is giving the full biography
of someone, of course, he gives both sides,
of the coin and the mistakes or some
issues like that. But if we are we
have a real person of innovations
whom we're trying to warn against, then we
are not obliged to mention,
his good deeds as Imam Ahmed Rahmahullah
didn't do so in relation
to the Jahmiya and other innovate, you know,
innovative sects.
The same applies to
political groups and parties that we may warn
against,
and Allah said in the Quran,
and the Jews and the Christians will not
be pleased with you until you follow their
path. And the same applies
to the people of innovation.
We ask Allah to guide us and them
and to enable them to return to the
right path, and we do not want anyone
to call others
different names as Allah
and assisting the scholars in uniting,
and assisting the scholars in uniting,
the Salafis
and not make the situation worse.
And may Allah grant us beneficial knowledge and
righteous deeds.
And the sheikh said, I would like to
actually,
address personally those brothers
who won against such events as this conference
and, similar events.
Come to us and join us in this,
conference
and in our events and lectures,
and, listen to what we say and what
we spread. And if you find any bidda,
any innovations,
then,
I don't allow you except to tell others
and spread and warn against us.
But be fair because you will be asked
about what you say
about your brothers
on the day of judgment. Allah said that,
the the individual does not utter a single
statement,
except that there are angels
ready
and
present to record it. And Allah said, do
not follow what you have no knowledge of.
And the prophet
said
that zulum injustice
will be a cause of darkness, one upon
another, for the for the person
darkness one upon another,
for the for the person on the day
of judgment.
And you do not possess any,
proof for what you say,
except following
what you think is right or your desires
or blindly following a shaykh.
Because on that day, Allah said,
neither wealth nor children
will be able to help anyone except who
comes to Allah with a clean heart.
Heart. And therefore, we the books that are
being studied here
and the lectures that are being taught,
they are,
they have nothing of the sort that people
claim, and they are taught by sheiks who
have spent their lives
actually calling to the path of the salaf
and warning against
innovators.
And we also say,
based upon
what kind of Quran or what kind of
sunnah
do you actually judge these events to be
based upon innovation
or attended by innovators or taught by innovators?
Based upon what kind of Quran or sunnah
do you actually help the enemies of this
blessed call and dawah.
And you make the people who are opposed
to it happy.
And based upon which Quran and Sunnah
do stop people from following the path of
Allah
and helping
the devils and the shaitan
and making the enemies of this call happy.
And we say that my brother,
fear Allah in relation to what you say
and do,
and
help your brothers and cooperate
with them in spreading the sunnah
and control your tongue
from,
saying something
that will cause division between the people who
follow the sunnah but because you'll be taken
to account for everything you say.
And you may actually
go
under the very dangerous
category of people described in the hadith of
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Whoever
starts a path in Islam that is evil
and people follow him, then he will carry
the
sins of all those people who follow him
until the day of judgment.
Because if there are people following you in
what you are saying, then that is extremely
dangerous, especially
in non Muslim countries
where you have so much fitna going on.
We don't need to increase it. We don't
need to make things worse. We don't need
to help shaitan
against our brothers and sisters
in trying to call to the correct part
of Islam. And the enemies of Islam are
actually laughing at us,
because,
we see some brothers to actually
blindly or not blindly, but
very
strongly and roughly following certain scholars.
Like some brothers in one European country,
they didn't allow a group of brothers to
repeat or to pray a second Jannah, a
second congregation
after the first one finished.
And they said that,
that we have such and such
proof from what our Sheikh, Sheikh Mohammed Nasruddin
Al Albayin Rahmullah used to say that if
the Sheikh were alive and he heard those
brothers,
behaving themselves in that way, he would certainly
have told them off and told them that
they have no proper manners.
That is not the way that we should
behave ourselves.
As the Sheikh said, I went to personally
see the Sheikh about 2 months before he
died in the year,
14/20
after Hijra, which roughly corresponds as far as
I remember
to 1999.
And when the brothers started introducing me to
the Sheikh and saying that this is such
and such, and he said, why do you
need to introduce him? This is the one
who kept arguing with me about fasting on
Saturdays Saturdays,
and also repeating the JAMA' in the Masjid
for the same salah.
And the Sheikh Sheikh Salih Zafarullah Faraz, he
said to Sheikh Al Bani,
that is because Sheikh, you and other of
our ilama, you teach us not to just
follow
the opinions of 1 Sheikh totally,
and we are free to, if we think
he's wrong, to actually choose a different opinion.
And the Sheikh, he said he,
took my hand and squeezed it, and he
said that's how we want the students of
knowledge to be.
So therefore, we must
all of us. We must fear Allah to
cause divisions, Allah said, and do not,
argue and divide between themselves
so that you will become weak and your
power will go. You must be one hand,
you must be united.
And because the individual who can be called
the Muftaliya
or innovator
is someone who,
he counts himself among the innovators.
He helps them. He spreads innovations.
As for us differing about,
an individual
or an issue or a Hakam,
ruling,
then of course it's not permissible for us
to declare one another to be innovators
because it's permissible to differ on these issues.
But we do not mean that we,
are helping those who say that we should
one another
in a in issues that we differ
and we should unite
in issues that we agree
because by that, they mean we shouldn't refute
the the likes of the Sufis, the Rafidah,
the Shia, and the real innovators.
So we're not saying that at all and
we
refute them. But if we differed about a
certain issue of certain individual,
it's not allowed for us to declare one
another innovators,
call each other bad names
because Imam Ahmed Rahmahullah,
he was told that the people of Khorasan,
they do not refute the jamiyah.
And he said,
the the people of Khorasan are not able
to do so. They're not able to do
so. They they are in a weak position.
Imam Ahmad Rahmullah used to reside,
the people were weak to the extent that
many Imams,
great knowledgeable people,
they kept quiet except Imam Ahmed Rahmullah
until the Khalifa
came and released and made things easy
for the people of the sunnah.
Khalifa al Mutawakkal Allah
from the Abbasid
Khalifa.
And,
that is because the scholars were really in
a weak position to to say or do
anything.