The Ruling on Warning Against Deviant Groups and the Ministry’s General Circular
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The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Question:
This is because the imams and preachers have recently received a general circular from the branch of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs in Hail. Questions have been frequent regarding the position on this circular. Among these questions, one preacher says: A circular was sent to the preachers and callers to Islam from His Royal Highness, the Prince of the Hail Region, through the Ministry branch, ordering them to warn against groups that deviate from the way of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and specifically the Tabligh group, due to the growth of its activity in the region. However, some preachers were hesitant to implement this directive, and some felt that the timing was not appropriate for this warning. Others felt that it would cause fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), and some asked why the Ministry did not make efforts itself and left the matter hanging for the preachers? Another said: What is your opinion of the Tabligh group? We know nothing about them, and a circular comes to us warning us against them?
Answer:
Yes, you are, praise be to Allah, in the land of tawhid (the oneness of Allah), the land of creed, and the single community. You are one community in all the lands of this Kingdom; the creed is one, the leadership is one, and the community is one, praise be to Allah. We do not want methodologies or ideas to come to us from here and there that contradict what we are following.
We have no doubt about our direction, praise be to Allah, because it is based on the correct creed. And our leadership, praise be to Allah, is among the best leaders in this time. We do not say that they are perfect; they have errors and they have shortcomings, but they have much good. And the Tabligh group, and other than the Tabligh group.
Everyone who contradicts what this country is upon must be warned against, so that the community of Muslims in this country remains as it was, without ideas entering it from here and there. This is what is required. And if the one in authority directs attention to this matter, it is obligatory to comply with it and execute this order, but in the beneficial way, not in the way of violence and harshness, but in the way of encouraging adherence to the community and adherence to what this country is upon: the methodology that it has followed for many years, hundreds of years, which is a successful methodology, praise be to Allah, that unites the people. So one warns against this without specifying so-and-so or so-and-so, or saying, “We are upon a sound methodology from the farthest part of the country to its farthest part, and from its beginning to its end, and the methodology is one.”
No one deviates from it, so we do not allow anyone to break our ranks, or to cause ideas or methodologies to arise among us that contradict what we are upon. This is what is required. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
May Allah reward you.
Question:
This is because the imams and preachers have recently received a general circular from the branch of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs in Hail. Questions have been frequent regarding the position on this circular. Among these questions, one preacher says: A circular was sent to the preachers and callers to Islam from His Royal Highness, the Prince of the Hail Region, through the Ministry branch, ordering them to warn against groups that deviate from the way of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and specifically the Tabligh group, due to the growth of its activity in the region. However, some preachers were hesitant to implement this directive, and some felt that the timing was not appropriate for this warning. Others felt that it would cause fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), and some asked why the Ministry did not make efforts itself and left the matter hanging for the preachers? Another said: What is your opinion of the Tabligh group? We know nothing about them, and a circular comes to us warning us against them?
Answer:
Yes, you are, praise be to Allah, in the land of tawhid (the oneness of Allah), the land of creed, and the single community. You are one community in all the lands of this Kingdom; the creed is one, the leadership is one, and the community is one, praise be to Allah. We do not want methodologies or ideas to come to us from here and there that contradict what we are following.
We have no doubt about our direction, praise be to Allah, because it is based on the correct creed. And our leadership, praise be to Allah, is among the best leaders in this time. We do not say that they are perfect; they have errors and they have shortcomings, but they have much good. And the Tabligh group, and other than the Tabligh group.
Everyone who contradicts what this country is upon must be warned against, so that the community of Muslims in this country remains as it was, without ideas entering it from here and there. This is what is required. And if the one in authority directs attention to this matter, it is obligatory to comply with it and execute this order, but in the beneficial way, not in the way of violence and harshness, but in the way of encouraging adherence to the community and adherence to what this country is upon: the methodology that it has followed for many years, hundreds of years, which is a successful methodology, praise be to Allah, that unites the people. So one warns against this without specifying so-and-so or so-and-so, or saying, “We are upon a sound methodology from the farthest part of the country to its farthest part, and from its beginning to its end, and the methodology is one.”
No one deviates from it, so we do not allow anyone to break our ranks, or to cause ideas or methodologies to arise among us that contradict what we are upon. This is what is required. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
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