The Position on the Ikhwan and Tabligh Groups That Have Arrived

The questioner:
Now, before we proceed to the presentation and questions, there is a notice from the center adjacent to the mosque that some of the brothers stopped in front of the door and urinated on the center's brothers. It was specifically on the car, even if the urine went on it. There are many questions, as you can see, but we have focused on the questions that directly relate to the topic of this lecture, which is about positions. The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, groups have come to our country under the name of calling to Allah, such as the Ikhwan group and the Tabligh group, and they have influenced many of our young people in this country, which was renewed by the hand of Imam Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him). What is the correct position regarding these two calls?

The Shaykh:
Yes. There are many callers, each calling to his own methodology and orientation. There are very many of them, and they do not stop either. We must be cautious of these people and direct our sons, our daughters, and those under our care, our students and pupils, to direct them properly and show them the right path. Not everyone who calls himself a caller is right. Many people may call themselves callers for the purpose of misguidance, or they may be ignorant people, and the call is not for the ignorant to undertake.
The caller must have knowledge and insight. This call requires knowledge and insight. There are those who love good and call to Allah, but they are ignorant, and ignorance harms more than it benefits, even if some benefit comes from them.
There are those who are scholars, but they are scholars of misguidance who deviate the call from its methodology and meaning to the political ideas, innovative ideas, or deviant ideas they carry, which they spread among people in the name of calling to Allah, in the name of Islam. We must be cautious of these people so that our young people are not deceived by them, nor those who have a good opinion of them.
Not everyone who calls himself a caller is a caller to Allah. Some may exploit it and call themselves by it while calling to ideas and methodologies that conflict with it or contradict it. Therefore, in the saying of the Exalted and Majestic: . Shaykh Muhammad (may Allah have mercy on him), Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, had sincerity in this, because some people only call to themselves and do not call to Allah. So we must look into these people. Not everyone who calls himself a caller is truly calling to Allah; they deceive people with that. Yes.

The questioner:
Peace be upon you. And the callers of innovations.

The Shaykh:
How do we distinguish between them? By the nature of what they call to. If they call to the Sunnah and to the creed of the righteous Salaf and the creed of the people of the Sunnah, and they proceed on the correct methodology, then they are sincere in their call. But if they call themselves callers to Allah while they promote ideas that contradict the call to Allah, then these are callers of misguidance, and one must be cautious of them. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you,