Response to Doubts: The Negation of Jihad, the Claim that the Wahhabis Do Not Love the Messenger, and the Non-Issuance of a Statement

Question:
Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. Yes. May Allah reward you, as He has rewarded the Shaykh and blessed you, and made your knowledge beneficial. This questioner asks about three doubts. He says that the people of desires have a doubt in every age that they spread among the people. One of the doubts being fabricated these days is the first doubt, that the Salafis negate jihad. What is your comment on this doubt? The second doubt is that the Wahhabis do not love the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). The third doubt is that the supporting committee has not issued a statement regarding the boycott, even though people are in greater need of their fatwas at this time than at any other time. What is your comment, may Allah reward you?

Answer:
I doubt the first doubt. As for the first doubt, regarding jihad, you know what it is. Did the Salafis negate it? You know that it has stages. If the Muslims are unable to engage in jihad, they postpone it until they become strong and have the capacity. This is one aspect.
The second aspect is that jihad must be under the leadership of the one in authority or his delegate. This is among the competencies of the one in authority, and the matter is not chaos, where everyone engages in jihad and everyone leads the youth. This results in chaos, disorder, and evil. You have seen what happened in some unorganized countries where they spoke of jihad and sects and groups arose. What was the outcome of their affair? Their affair ended in failure and humiliation because they did not have a unified leadership to lead and organize them. This is the first doubt. As for the second doubt, it is merely saying to you, “If a statement is issued.” As for the Wahhabis, first, what are the Wahhabis? We have nothing called the Wahhabis. This is a title that the enemies of the da'wah of Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab made up, as if it became a title like the Jahmiyyah or being attributed to an innovator of this matter. The Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him) did not innovate anything from himself, like the Jahmiyyah and the Mu'tazilah. Rather, he called to the da'wah of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So it is obligatory to call it the Prophetic da'wah, because the Shaykh’s effort was only to renew the da'wah, the da'wah of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and he did not bring anything from himself. So it is not called the Wahhabi da'wah.
Second, the Wahhabis, as they are called, love the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) intensely. Therefore, they call to his Sunnah, they command prayer and sending blessings upon him, they command following him and obeying him, they command abandoning bid'ah (religious innovations) and newly invented matters, and they command taking the Sunnah of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) as he advised. Love for the Messenger is not by claim, but by facts. If you see a man saying, “I love the Messenger,” if he follows the Messenger and obeys him, that is evidence of the truth of his love. And if he does not follow the Messenger, but follows his desire, or follows the callers to misguidance, then he is a liar in his claim of love for the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Wahhabis are among the closest people to the da'wah of the Messenger, and they call to it and hold fast to it, and their books are available and printed. As for the issue that the committee did not issue a statement, the committee is not a gate that issues a statement whenever something happens. Rather, it issues a statement when the need arises for it, and the need did not arise for this matter.