The Characteristics of the Extremist and the Terrorist
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Question:
His second question, in which he asks: What are the characteristics that, if present in a person, indicate that he is an extremist or a terrorist?
Answer:
If it contradicts the Book and the Sunnah and the methodology of the righteous Salaf, it becomes a contradictory methodology or a path that differs from what was in these reliable legal sources from the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger. Whatever contradicts that, there is no doubt that it is… and why? If we study? Why were the books authored?
Why did the teachers stand before the students except to combat these evils, limit them, refute their doubts, and answer their problems? All of this is in your hands, all of it is in your hands in your curricula that are with you, and also the scholars who stand before you in teaching; you ask them about what is difficult for you. Yes.
His second question, in which he asks: What are the characteristics that, if present in a person, indicate that he is an extremist or a terrorist?
Answer:
If it contradicts the Book and the Sunnah and the methodology of the righteous Salaf, it becomes a contradictory methodology or a path that differs from what was in these reliable legal sources from the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger. Whatever contradicts that, there is no doubt that it is… and why? If we study? Why were the books authored?
Why did the teachers stand before the students except to combat these evils, limit them, refute their doubts, and answer their problems? All of this is in your hands, all of it is in your hands in your curricula that are with you, and also the scholars who stand before you in teaching; you ask them about what is difficult for you. Yes.
Source
موقف المسلم من الفتن 08-03-1439هـ. — af.org.sa (46:37)
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