The Ummah’s Division into Seventy-Three Sects: Diversity or Contradiction
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Question:
The questioner asks in his question: Is the difference among the seventy-three sects of this Ummah a difference of diversity or a difference of contradiction? Do they exist today in the lands of the Muslims? And are the Tabligh group and the Muslim Brotherhood, for example, among these seventy-three sects or not?
Answer:
The difference among the seventy-three is a difference of contradiction, not a difference of diversity. A difference of diversity is the difference of ijtihad (independent legal reasoning) in a specific issue of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). This is a difference of diversity. Each person took a possible interpretation. The evidence is ambiguous. The evidence is ambiguous. The verse is ambiguous. The hadith is ambiguous. And each person took a possible interpretation from the evidence. This is diversity.
However, if they adopt opinions that contradict the evidence, this is a difference of contradiction. The difference among the seventy-three sects is a difference of contradiction. For this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said that they are all in the Fire. If it had been a difference of diversity, he would not have said they are all in the Fire. Among the Muslims, there is a difference of diversity. Among the four jurists, the four Imams, there is a difference of diversity. Do we say that they are in the Fire? Far from it, absolutely not. There is a difference between a difference of diversity and a difference of contradiction.
There is no need for us to repeat. We say regarding Tabligh or others: Between us and them is the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So we return to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Whoever is in agreement with the Book and the Sunnah, we are with them. And whoever is in contradiction, we reject them. We have no methodology except what the Companions were upon.
Whoever is upon the path ofAl-Mustadrak lil-Hakim 2:145 [At-Tawbah 9:100] this is our methodology and this is our path. So whoever comes with us, welcome and happiness. And whoever is content with another methodology for himself, let him have what he desires, and his reckoning is with Allah. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner asks in his question: Is the difference among the seventy-three sects of this Ummah a difference of diversity or a difference of contradiction? Do they exist today in the lands of the Muslims? And are the Tabligh group and the Muslim Brotherhood, for example, among these seventy-three sects or not?
Answer:
The difference among the seventy-three is a difference of contradiction, not a difference of diversity. A difference of diversity is the difference of ijtihad (independent legal reasoning) in a specific issue of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). This is a difference of diversity. Each person took a possible interpretation. The evidence is ambiguous. The evidence is ambiguous. The verse is ambiguous. The hadith is ambiguous. And each person took a possible interpretation from the evidence. This is diversity.
However, if they adopt opinions that contradict the evidence, this is a difference of contradiction. The difference among the seventy-three sects is a difference of contradiction. For this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said that they are all in the Fire. If it had been a difference of diversity, he would not have said they are all in the Fire. Among the Muslims, there is a difference of diversity. Among the four jurists, the four Imams, there is a difference of diversity. Do we say that they are in the Fire? Far from it, absolutely not. There is a difference between a difference of diversity and a difference of contradiction.
There is no need for us to repeat. We say regarding Tabligh or others: Between us and them is the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So we return to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Whoever is in agreement with the Book and the Sunnah, we are with them. And whoever is in contradiction, we reject them. We have no methodology except what the Companions were upon.
Whoever is upon the path of
What I am upon today and my Companions
ما أنا عليه اليوم وأصحابيAnd the first forerunners [in the faith] among the Muhajireen and the Ansar and those who followed them with good conduct
وَالسَّابِقُونَ الْأَوَّلُونَ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَالْأَنصَارِ وَالَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُوهُم بِإِحْسَانٍThe presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-109-ولا تنازعوا فتفشلوا|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (36:46)
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