A Guiding Word on the Accusations of Innovation and Misguidance Exchanged Among Some Righteous Youth
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Question:
The problem that arises among some righteous youth is the mutual accusation of innovation and misguidance. I ask you, Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, to give us a brief word on this matter. Are all the existing groups innovators?
Answer:
My brothers, it is obligatory for us to leave these things and turn to seeking knowledge. These people fell into what they are in because of ignorance and because of desire. Because of ignorance, they have no knowledge; they do not know the boundary between open sinfulness, religious innovation, and disbelief. They do not know this, or they have desire, may Allah protect us from that, and that is more severe.
As for the knowledgeable person who has no desire, he does not enter into these matters. If a disagreement arises among us, let us be free of so-and-so and so-and-so, and let us take the person of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). He is the model for everyone. So let our model be the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). It is not so-and-so or so-and-so who is our model. Our model is the Messenger of Allah.
[Al-Ahzab 33:21]. We return to the Sunnah of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). And we present what we disagreed upon to it. So what is attested to as truth we accept, and what is attested to as error we turn away from.
Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:[An-Nisa 4:59] But this is the affair of the scholars. As for these ignorant people, it is obligatory for them to learn and not enter into these matters of accusing of innovation, interpretation, and declaring someone a disbeliever, because they are ignorant and did not know these criteria at the beginning of learning, or they read and do not understand, so they leave these matters and turn to seeking knowledge until they know, with knowledge and awareness, who is the innovator, who is the open sinner, and who is the disbeliever. Yes. And how do they resolve the dispute between them and settle the disagreement between them? This does not happen except after knowledge or returning to the people of knowledge. Yes.
The problem that arises among some righteous youth is the mutual accusation of innovation and misguidance. I ask you, Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, to give us a brief word on this matter. Are all the existing groups innovators?
Answer:
My brothers, it is obligatory for us to leave these things and turn to seeking knowledge. These people fell into what they are in because of ignorance and because of desire. Because of ignorance, they have no knowledge; they do not know the boundary between open sinfulness, religious innovation, and disbelief. They do not know this, or they have desire, may Allah protect us from that, and that is more severe.
As for the knowledgeable person who has no desire, he does not enter into these matters. If a disagreement arises among us, let us be free of so-and-so and so-and-so, and let us take the person of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). He is the model for everyone. So let our model be the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). It is not so-and-so or so-and-so who is our model. Our model is the Messenger of Allah.
There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern
لَّقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌAllah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:
And if you disagree over anything, refer it to Allah and the Messenger
فَإِن تَنَازَعْتُمْ فِي شَيْءٍ فَرُدُّوهُ إِلَى اللَّهِ وَالرَّسُولِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [393 -1024] كلمة توجيهية حول ما يحصل بين بعض الشباب الصالح من التبديع والتضليل فيما بينهم — youtube.com
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