The Position on Groups and the Classification of the Muslim Brotherhood
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The questioner:
This questioner says that some students of knowledge say. And this is part of the confusion you mentioned, Your Eminence the Shaykh, that classifying the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group is a political decision not made for the sake of Allah, but rather a political decision that has no connection to religion, because the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate group in its methodology and moderate in its thought. So what is your view, may Allah preserve you?
The Shaykh:
We wish they were a moderate group in thought and moderate in methodology; we wish for that. But the fact is, we have no concern with groups or talking about them. We only say that the truth is clear, the path is clear, and the Muslim community is clear. We have no concern with so-and-so or so-and-so. Whoever is on the sound methodology is welcome, and we are with him and he is with us. Whoever is on a methodology other than the sound one is not of us, and we are not of him, whatever name he is called. Yes.
The questioner:
But he says it is a political matter, and I know it is for the scholars.
The Shaykh:
If the matter does not conform to the Book and the Sunnah, it is rejected. But if it conforms to the Book and the Sunnah, warns against division and disagreement, and warns against disobeying the ruler of the Muslims, then it is a false statement. Yes.
This questioner says that some students of knowledge say. And this is part of the confusion you mentioned, Your Eminence the Shaykh, that classifying the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group is a political decision not made for the sake of Allah, but rather a political decision that has no connection to religion, because the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate group in its methodology and moderate in its thought. So what is your view, may Allah preserve you?
The Shaykh:
We wish they were a moderate group in thought and moderate in methodology; we wish for that. But the fact is, we have no concern with groups or talking about them. We only say that the truth is clear, the path is clear, and the Muslim community is clear. We have no concern with so-and-so or so-and-so. Whoever is on the sound methodology is welcome, and we are with him and he is with us. Whoever is on a methodology other than the sound one is not of us, and we are not of him, whatever name he is called. Yes.
The questioner:
But he says it is a political matter, and I know it is for the scholars.
The Shaykh:
If the matter does not conform to the Book and the Sunnah, it is rejected. But if it conforms to the Book and the Sunnah, warns against division and disagreement, and warns against disobeying the ruler of the Muslims, then it is a false statement. Yes.
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