[Q]: Firstly, I love you for the sake of Allāh and I ask Allāh to preserve you just as He preserves all of His righteous servants. Here (in France), the French Government is appealing to the Salafis for their cooperation in capturing the Takfirists. In all actuality they are requesting that we work alongside them to catch these individuals. Is this something that the religion of Islām deems permissible or not? May Allāh bless you.
[A]: Truthfully, the Takfirists are considered to be enemies of Islām and enemies of the Muslims as they are responsible for actions that have harmed the Muslims…
If a prohibition reaches you, then refrain from it, and ask not whether it is impermissible or disliked. Likewise, if a command reaches you, then act accordingly and ask not whether it is obligated or recommended. When the Companions (رضي الله عنهم) were commanded by the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) they would not say, “O Messenger of Allāh, did you mean it to be an obligation or was it a recommendation?” Rather they would carry out the commandment instantly.
My advice to every believer is that if a commandment from the commandments of Allāh and His Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) reaches the…
Let the reader compare the approach to daʿwah of the late Imām of Yemen, Muqbil Ibn Hādī al-Wādiʿī (رحمه الله), in comparison with the likes of Abū Usamah and those whom he praises, who line up alongside people of innovation and ḥizbiyyah, praising them and being silent about their innovation. The words of the scholars speak volumes:
From the greatest reasons for the spread of the call of the people of the Sunnah in Yemen is that they distanced themselves from every innovator, and they [did] not care, even if this person [whom they abandoned] had once studied in Dammāj, such as ʿAbdullāh al-…
It is permissible, rather, it is obligatory to speak about the people of innovation and to warn against them and their innovation, individually or as a group. [This includes] those from the past as well as the present, from the Khawārij, the Rawāfiḍ, the Jahmiyyah, the Murjī’ah, the Karāmiyyah, and the people of kalām (theological rhetoric) — those who the knowledge of kalām has dragged them to corrupt beliefs like negation of [all of] Allāh’s attributes or some of them. So, it is obligatory to warn against them and their books; likewise, whoever traverses upon their [deviated] methodology fr…
[Q]: “O Shaykh! Do we warn against them without mentioning their good qualities for example, or do we mention their good qualities and their bad (qualities)?”
[A]: If you mention their good qualities, then you have called to them. No, do not mention their good qualities — mention the error which they are upon only. For you are not responsible for studying their deeds or evaluating their personalities. You are responsible for clarifying the error which they have in order that they may repent from it, and in order that others may be warned against them. As for if you were to mention their good…
