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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Resisting Imported Ideas and Defending the Creed

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Question:
Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and blessings.

Answer:
Peace. Good. Bin Sulayman al-Bara'in, the director of the Dawah office in Harat Salim. Your Excellency the Shaykh, we bear witness that we love you for the sake of Allah. We ask Allah, Mighty and Majestic, to grant us the sustenance of the Gardens of Pleasure. It is not hidden from Your Excellency that in this country, by the praise of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, we have a great blessing due to holding fast to the correct Salafi creed. But what distresses the Shaykh is that there are imported calls that have crowded out the correct Salafi call. And it is also regrettable that some of our youth, and perhaps some of the preachers, may affiliate with and defend and advocate for these calls. The reason for that, as is not hidden from you, is that there have been actions and there has been weakness in the call to Allah, Mighty and Majestic, and even among the preachers themselves, due to affiliation with these calls. This word is for us all; we hold fast to this correct Salafi call. And Your Excellency the Shaykh will clarify that the people of the East have exploited this gap between the preachers, and this is due to these classifications, groups, and imported parties. I ask Allah, Mighty and Majestic, to silence them. May Allah bless you. Allah the Exalted said:
So do not weaken and do not grieve, and you will be superior if you are [true] believers.وَلَا تَهِنُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُوا وَأَنتُمُ الْأَعْلَوْنَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ
[Ali 'Imran 3:139]
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So praise be to Allah, we have knowledge in our hands and we have means in our hands. It is obligatory for us to utilize them and to resist these ideas and these doubts with the same means they have. We have means in our hands, or more than what they have, and the guardians, may Allah guide them, support us. And they rejoice in that. So it is obligatory for us to refute these ideas and these doubts and resist them so that they have no place between them and the homes.
Each according to his capacity, each according to his ability. The one who cannot should convey to the one who can. The one who cannot resist them or refute them should convey to those who can, and so on, this is cooperation in righteousness and piety. The truth does not triumph by itself, but it triumphs through those who uphold it. Those who uphold it triumph with it. So if we do not uphold this truth, then falsehood will engulf the society.
So nothing will refute it except correct resistance with beneficial knowledge and action. They have nothing with them but doubts, they have nothing with them but falsehoods. And you have with you the Qur'an and the Sunnah and the sayings of the people of knowledge, and that is the truth, and they have with them falsehood. And Allah, Exalted and Majestic is He, says:
Rather, We dash the truth upon falsehood, and it destroys itبَلْ نَقْذِفُ بِالْحَقِّ عَلَى الْبَاطِلِ فَيَدْمَغُهُ
[Al-Anbya 21:18]
He, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:
And say, "Truth has come, and falsehood has departed. Indeed is falsehood, [by nature], ever bound to depart."وَقُلْ جَاءَ الْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ الْبَاطِلُ إِنَّ الْبَاطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا
[Al-Isra 17:81]
. You have with you the Book of Allah, the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah. You have with you. The words of the people of knowledge and the imams. So uphold this, you have with you the weapon that no weapon can overcome, you have with you, so uphold it and nothing will stand in its face by the permission of Allah. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-095-موقف الداعية من الفتن|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (26:04)

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