What is your advice for the Salafi youth in Syria regarding the disagreements occurring among them?
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Question:
This questioner says: We seek advice from the Honorable Shaykh for the Salafi youth in Syria, for a sign of ill has arisen among them in a fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) that has led each group to label the other as not being from the people of the Sunnah and the community, but rather describing them as Khawarij (an early sect that declared sinners disbelievers) or takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever) practitioners.
Answer:
This fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) is not only in Syria; this fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) has appeared in many lands among the youth of Muslims. The reason for this is ignorance; the reason for this is ignorance. They claim knowledge, yet they have not learned.
Therefore, they have fallen into what they have fallen into. I advise them to turn to seeking knowledge from the scholars, I advise them to turn to seeking knowledge from the scholars and from reliable books from the books of the people of the Sunnah and the community, and to abandon exchanging insults and hostility among themselves, for this begets enmity.
And it causes bad suspicion among Muslims, some of them toward others. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:[Al-Hujurat 49:12]?
Fear Allah, for Allah is the One who accepts repentance, the Merciful. And there are people who infiltrate among them and stoke this enmity from among the wicked. So they should beware of these people, for Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says: "O you who believe! If there comes to you a fasiq (open sinner) with news, verify it, lest you strike a people out of ignorance.
And you become regretful of what you have done." I advise them to fear Allah, I advise them to turn to seeking beneficial knowledge, and to the scholars, and to return to the scholars, not to the pretenders to knowledge, or to the followers of desires, and not to accept talebearing or speech about one another. And this is what I advise them with. And I hope for guidance for us and for them, and for knowing the truth and acting upon it. Yes.
This questioner says: We seek advice from the Honorable Shaykh for the Salafi youth in Syria, for a sign of ill has arisen among them in a fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) that has led each group to label the other as not being from the people of the Sunnah and the community, but rather describing them as Khawarij (an early sect that declared sinners disbelievers) or takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever) practitioners.
Answer:
This fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) is not only in Syria; this fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) has appeared in many lands among the youth of Muslims. The reason for this is ignorance; the reason for this is ignorance. They claim knowledge, yet they have not learned.
Therefore, they have fallen into what they have fallen into. I advise them to turn to seeking knowledge from the scholars, I advise them to turn to seeking knowledge from the scholars and from reliable books from the books of the people of the Sunnah and the community, and to abandon exchanging insults and hostility among themselves, for this begets enmity.
And it causes bad suspicion among Muslims, some of them toward others. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:
O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? You would detest it
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اجْتَنِبُوا كَثِيرًا مِّنَ الظَّنِّ إِنَّ بَعْضَ الظَّنِّ إِثْمٌ وَلَا تَجَسَّسُوا وَلَا يَغْتَب بَّعْضُكُم بَعْضًا أَيُحِبُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَن يَأْكُلَ لَحْمَ أَخِيهِ مَيْتًا فَكَرِهْتُمُوهُFear Allah, for Allah is the One who accepts repentance, the Merciful. And there are people who infiltrate among them and stoke this enmity from among the wicked. So they should beware of these people, for Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says: "O you who believe! If there comes to you a fasiq (open sinner) with news, verify it, lest you strike a people out of ignorance.
And you become regretful of what you have done." I advise them to fear Allah, I advise them to turn to seeking beneficial knowledge, and to the scholars, and to return to the scholars, not to the pretenders to knowledge, or to the followers of desires, and not to accept talebearing or speech about one another. And this is what I advise them with. And I hope for guidance for us and for them, and for knowing the truth and acting upon it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما نصيحتكم للشباب السلفي في سوريا لما يحصل بينهم من خلافات؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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