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Jun 14, 2007
Ideologies Current in the World Today
There is no doubt that tasfiyah and tarbiyah requires an organization. And I do know of anyone who rejects the use of the word ‘organization’, but what is rejected, and I am the first to do so, is an organization which is not built upon these principles – tasfiyah and tarbiyah.
Shaykh Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-AlbānīA number of ideologies which are not pure and correct are in circulation amongst the Muslims today, and so there are many sects which spread the ideas of the Mu’tazila, Khawārij, Shee’a, and others. So it is necessary that the scholars establish the obligation of purifying these i…
Jun 14, 2007
Callers to Innovation in the West
Muḥammad Ibn Bundaar al-Jarjaanee said to Imām Aḥmad: “Verily it is hard for me to say: So-and-so is like this, and so-and-so is like that.” So Aḥmad said to him: “If I remained quiet and you remained quiet then when will the ignorant man come to know the Ṣaḥīḥ (authentic) from the saqīm (weak)?” Majmūʿ al-Fatāwá (28/231) and Sharḥ ʿIlal al-Tirmidhī (1/350)
From the topics discussed:
Jamāl Zarabozo’s call to Revolt in ‘The Friday Prayer’, his criticism of Imām al-Albānī and his alliance with Ahl al-Bidʿah quoting the response of al-‘Allammah Muḥammad Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab al-Banná́. Ques…
Jun 13, 2007
A Few Notes on the Evils of Innovation
The belief of ‘bidʿah ḥasanah’, i.e. a good bidʿah, meaning that a scholar can introduce a new action of worship in Islām which can be considered to be good as long it does not contradict any of the principles of Islām. So we resort to the sayings of the Companions and the Imāms to illuminate the road ahead of these people.
The Dīn is complete:
Allāh says, “this day have I perfected your religion for you, completed my favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islām as your religion” (5:4)
This verse embodies a clear statement that the religion has been completed and so has no need of addition…
Jun 13, 2007
A Clarification of Doubts Regarding Innovation
His saying, ‘and beware of the newly invented matters, and every bidʿah is a misguidance’ contains a warning to the ummah from following the newly invented innovations, and he stressed this by saying, ‘and every innovation is a misguidance’. And the meaning of bidʿah is everything that is newly invented that has no basis in the Sharīʿah that would prove it.
Al-ʿAllāmah Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān
Jun 13, 2007
Takfīr of the Entire Ummah: The Legacy of Sayyid Quṭb
So when there is so much misguidance, differing and disbelief and there is no escape from the continuance of this Muslim group.
Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān[Q.1]: ‘Muḥammad Qutb says in his book, Hawla Tatbeeqish-Sharīʿah concerning the meaning of Lā ilāha illā-Allāh (There is no deity worthy of worship besides Allāh), that it means, ‘There is no deity besides Allāh, nor is there any ruler besides Allāh.’2 So is this tafsīr (exegesis) correct?’
[A.1]: “Allāh the Glorified and Exalted has explained the meaning of Lā ilāha illā-Allāh in His Book and Messenger ﷺ has clarified it. Al…
Jun 13, 2007
The Conclusive Ruling upon Jamāʿat al-Tablīgh
So in this book, he collected and explained the reality of this group from its own books and from trustworthy witnesses from its own members who attained special positions in their program and their followers, and refuted them.
Al-ʿAllāmah Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān[Q]: The Jamāʿat al-Tablīgh says, ‘We wish to traverse the methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamāʿah.’ However, some of them may have errors. So they say, ‘How can you make a judgment upon us and warn against us?’
[A]: Those who traveled with the Jamāʿat al-Tablīgh and studied them have written against them.&…
Jun 13, 2007
The True Meaning of Fiqh al-Wāqiʿ
The meaning of that is the fiqh of the Religion by knowing the rulings of the Sharīʿah. This is what is required, and this is what is obligatory upon the Muslims to give attention to and know.
Al-ʿAllāmah Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān[Q]: ‘I need clarification, what is the intended meaning behind ‘Fiqh-al-Wāqiʿ’, (understanding the current state of affairs) because this term is often used. I wish to know what it means linguistically, not in the Sharīʿah sense.’
[A]: “The required an necessary fiqh (understanding) is the fiqh of the Book and the&nbs…
Jun 13, 2007
Respect for the Scholars
If trust in the Scholars is neglected, then to whom will the Muslims refer to in a condition of difficulty, and to explain the rules of the Sharīʿah?
Shaykh Ṣāliḥ ibn Fawzān al-Fawzān[Q]: Is it from unity to have disdain for the Committee of Major Scholars, and to charge them with hypocrisy and being paid workers?
[A]: It is obligatory to respect the Scholars of the Muslims because they are inheritors of the Prophets. So having disdain for them refers to having disdain for their position, their inheritance from the Prophet ﷺ, and disdain for the knowledge that they carry. From disdain for t…