Why do the scholars not respond to the call to the Book and the Sunnah?

The questioner: To be. I said that it is necessary for the scholars to unite so that they can be fair to this religion and remove the impurities that have mixed into it. Is it not better, since we call ourselves the people of the Sunnah, that we direct our call to the scholars to purify their understanding and study these matters? Yes. We direct a call to the scholars. What do we do?

The Shaykh: We are doing this, my brother, but they do not respond to us. Yes, yes, yes, yes. We have been doing this for thirty or forty years, and they are ignoring us. How can they respond to us? So what is to be done? Since they are not walking with us, we are on our path, my brother. We are walking as we said, or we die, and then we are excused. We do not care whether the people respond to us or not. But you have to see the reality as it is. Our call today, in brief, is to return to the Book and the Sunnah. Do you find a listening ear for this call? The masses of scholars today say to you, "No, we are the four schools of jurisprudence. These are from the group of Muslims, the people of the Sunnah and the community. We do not listen to a new call at all." You know this, you hear this, do you not? So whom do we call? They call us innovators. The reason for their claim is that they claim to be walking on the path of the correct Sunnah, and we are the ones who oppose it. How is that? We say to them, "Come, what do you mean by the Book and the Sunnah?" They say, "No, it is the Hanafi and Shafi'i schools." And some of them say, "We are, praise be to Allah, on the Sunnah. Therefore, you are the ones who oppose the Sunnah." My brother, our problem with you is a problem. You speak, my brother, of what you see. Do not imitate them. They say, "Because I cannot discuss here what is behind you. What are you boasting about? Wait." But they say, "We say..." So what is the benefit? You have an organic problem. The problem I want to present is: what is the reason that such people claim this claim? What makes them claim this? Is the reason that they do not want to meet, or that they are insistent that this is wrong? What is the reason? Two reasons: ignorance and desire. Ignorance and desire. I mean, desire before ignorance. I mean, without offense, a questioner asked Abu Jahl about the Messenger: Why did he not believe in the Messenger? Why did Abu Lahab not believe in the Messenger (peace be upon him)? Was it because the truth was not clear to him? The answer is no. The truth may not be clear to a person, from one like me, a weak, uneducated person, and so on. But the Master of Mankind is the proof with him, do you see? So it was certainly clear to Abu Lahab that the truth was with the Messenger (peace be upon him). Why did he not believe?
This is our problem now. And if you always remember, there are seventy-three sects, and one of them is the saved one, which is the minority by nature. You have asked yourself several times: Why is the saved sect one? Why are seventy-three in the Fire and one in Paradise? Ignorance and desire. There is no problem at all. So you are either a believer in what we call for, following the Book and the Sunnah and the methodology of the righteous predecessors, or you are not a believer, God forbid. If it is the first, as we hope, you understand, right? The position of the others is against the call. Either they are ignorant, in which case they are benefited, or it is desire and purpose, for which there is no way for us to reform it, because guidance is the guidance of Allah. I am a professor to many of the brothers, and I think I have mentioned this to you more than once. Everyone in the arena of the callers to Islam, whether sincere or not, whether they want the truth or not, says, "This is the call that destroyed the efforts of the predecessors and will destroy the efforts of the successors. It is the call of anesthesia." I mean, you are now trying to give people injections or pills of morphine. So some of the brothers really discuss. Many of the brothers in the arena, whether from the Liberation group, the Brothers, or any category, are surprised by this speech. Of course, they have firm certainty that this speech is the truth, and this is correct. But as for the proof, they lack it. So what is required of the brother in this specific issue? He should not belittle himself, and by the permission of Allah the Exalted, he should not be arrogant with the truth and increase in knowledge. This is a heavy blow directed at any young man of the Salafi brothers in any field. And your speech is correct and good, but this is the assessment of the Muslims. Does this prevent the Salafi call from walking with these groups that say, "I want Islamic work with this understanding that we understand and are following"? I mean, if we stay away from them, we are anesthetizing ourselves. But if we walk with them, they think the knot is untied or the path is closer. Does this prevent cooperation with them or walking with them? For example, Professor Brother Abu Hashim spoke like this last time, and many of the brothers say, "We discuss with them and say, 'Your call to Allah is correct, but this is anesthesia.'" So what is the positive action? What are you doing? What is the purification? You all say that purifying the hadith requires reviewing this, translating that, from a scholar of the scholars of hadith. Purification, yes, purification of a jurisprudential issue according to you. It does not seem stronger to you, it seems stronger to others, just as it seems stronger to you. This is the anesthesia. You are now adopting this from the intellectual side to excuse yourselves from sitting or from the paper jurisprudence that you are working in, and we are the ones who work. This is a correct attack. The brothers need it themselves. You need clarification for it. I mean, how does one respond to his brothers or to those who speak with them with this speech? Every brother who hears the purification and the criticism tries, if Allah wills, something of this attempt. But if you discuss and you say to him, "You are an anesthetist," or "You are one of two: either you have reached the level of the Shaykh and anesthetized others, or you are now an anesthetist, at the very least, meaning you are disabled from working. You are not in the first grade or the preparatory grade. They say you are nothing." We will bring a little. I mean, I do not understand. The conflict between truth and falsehood is always present. And in the time of the Messenger (peace be upon him), the brightest era that has no like, what was he saying in Ta'if?