What is your advice for one who slanders the call of Shaykh and Imam Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him)?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: There are those who slander the call of Shaykh and Imam Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him), and they say, "We do not need this call in the contemporary era."
Answer:
Praise be to Allah. If you were in a state where you did not need it, and Allah had made you self-sufficient, and you knew the truth and were upright upon it, that is what is required. That is what the Shaykh required. But if you do not have, I mean, knowledge, and you have only mere affiliation, then it is obligatory for you to know the truth from the Shaykh and from others. We do not say to you, "Follow the Shaykh." We say, "Follow the truth. Follow the truth." Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: There are those who slander the call of Shaykh and Imam Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him), and they say, "We do not need this call in the contemporary era."
Answer:
Praise be to Allah. If you were in a state where you did not need it, and Allah had made you self-sufficient, and you knew the truth and were upright upon it, that is what is required. That is what the Shaykh required. But if you do not have, I mean, knowledge, and you have only mere affiliation, then it is obligatory for you to know the truth from the Shaykh and from others. We do not say to you, "Follow the Shaykh." We say, "Follow the truth. Follow the truth." Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما نصيحتكم لمن يطعن في دعوة الشيخ الإمام محمد بن عبد الوهاب –رحمه الله ؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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