Abu Taymiyyah – QA Real Salafi Or Sectarian Salafism southampton
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First question on there is, are you salafi?
What do you mean by that?
I am somebody who follows the Quran and
the sunnah
upon the understanding of the companions,
right?
The Tabia'in, the Tabia'in, the Tabia'in, and I
tried my utmost best.
Right? Just because I say I follow the
Quran and the Sunnah, I don't believe that
I have a green card to enter into
a
jannah. And, also, what we should be more
concerned about is
making sure
that our actions
are in line with
the righteous predecessors. What does salaf even mean?
Have you ever thought about
it? If you look at the term brother
and sister, salaf, it means predecessor.
Right? So now when you say salafi yun,
it means that you are ascribing yourself to
the righteous, criticises of the past. However,
we should be more concerned about our being
in line with what they came with and
their statements.
Today, what's basically happened is people label themselves
with these names,
Right? He walks around as if he has
some sort of green card to enter into
a jannah.
And some who ascribe to this way, or
they call them salafis, they have completely
distorted
the way of the salaf.
Sheikh Baratheem Rahmatullahi alaihi wa'lahi mentioned this many
many ago. He goes, that which I fear
is that
this is now going to turn into partisanship.
Sectarianism.
That's what he feared,
and we see it happening.
Right?
So now when somebody says to me, are
you salafi?
If you intend by them group of people,
well, I think everybody knows
that I live in
I have nothing to do with them.
But I'm trying my utmost best to follow
the Quran
and the sunnah
in a manner that is pleasing to Allah
upon
the understanding of the companions.
And like I said, that which we should
be more concerned about is our actions
being
in sync and in line with
the 3 golden generations. What are the 3
golden generations?
The Sahaba, the Tabi'a, that's Barat Tabi'a.
They are the ones that the messenger praised.
The best of the generation, my generation,
those who came after them, those who came
after them.
It shouldn't be a his it shouldn't be
a party or a group. The one now
loves and hates based upon his group, and
whatever you think about their particular Sheikh, and
so on and so forth is that
tayid.
All of these different titles that we hear,
labels like Ahlul Sunnah, Ahlul Hadith, As Salafi,
and so on and so forth. We have
to understand
how it came about.
It came about in order to distinguish themselves
from the opposition.
Because the asl is the asl is Allah
what does he say in the Quran?
What does he say?
What did Allah
name us?
He has named you Muslimen,
named you Muslims. We are Muslims. But today
you ask somebody, okay, you're a Muslim, but
which group are you? There are so many
different sects.
And the messenger salallahu alaihi wa sallam told
us that there's going to be how many
sects? 70.
73.
All of them are indeed hellfire except 1.
Right?
Who are they?
They are the ones who
will tread the same path as me. They're
going to be upon what I am upon,
and also my companions.
And this is what we hope. Just because
now you told yourself, okay, Halas, I follow
the Quran and the Sunnah, and I'm the
person of
hadith and whatever have you. I'm from them.
And then you walk around as if you
have a green card to enter into a
jannah, you are gravely mistaken.
Just because now you have embraced this dawah,
right? You still have to worship Allah
Between hope and fear,
hoping
for your actions to be accepted,
fearing that it may be rejected.
Even yesterday in the university, we went through
the manduuma,
the poem called, Asayru il Mahwudalalakhram.
One of the qualities was, or 2 of
the qualities was,
The uliya,
the saints, the beloved servants of Allah
They have structured their journey to Allah
by worshiping Him between hope and fear.
Nobody should take whatever they follow for granted,
thinking the harass, I'm going to agenda.
Does that make sense? So all of these
labels, how did they come about?
The righteous of the past, they would call
themselves Ahlul Hadith.
The people of the hadith, why? Because they
were Ahlul Rai.
The opposition was the people of opinions. They
would always just refer back to opinions.
So they wanted to distinguish themselves from them.
Then he had what? Ahlul Sunnah, which means
the people of the Sunnah, and it was
as a reaction to
Ahlul Bida, the people of innovation.
And then today you find everyone calls themselves
Ahlul Sunnah.
So what came the term?
Salafi. Distinguishing themselves from anyone who
is not upon the way of the salaf.
What does salaf mean? The righteous predecessors, the
3 golden generations?
Does that make sense my brothers and my
sisters?
Right? However, today even you see so many
different groups call themselves Salafi.
When they will ask you, are you the
Salafi from or the Salafi from?
Or this type of Salafi, that to tell
you, which one? This is why I say
my brothers and my sisters. Right?
It is extremely important that we follow the
Quran and the sunnah upon the understanding of
who The 3 golden generations. Don't turn this
into a sect
or into a group or into some partisanship.
This is what Sheikh Narazim Muhammadumayyah
feared.
Does that make sense? So if somebody wanted
to call himself that, right? Is it something
that is to call yourself or it's not?
I don't think there's an evidence that says
that you must
call yourself this name or that name.
However, one may call himself that in order
to distinguish himself,
to profile himself.
Right? So that it is clear what the
people are upon. Does that make sense? Most
important thing is your actions, and that's what
we should focus on more than anything else.
Instead of the labels who have now turned
into, like, a slogan, now like a football
team, la.
I hope that answers the question. Does that
make sense?