Defense of the Call of Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab

Question:
Your Eminence, father, there are those who doubt the call of Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab and say that he is among the actions of the Khawarij, and that is through what they claim of collective takfir (declaring someone a disbeliever) and collective killing, and so on, as happens with the Khawarij today in Syria and some Islamic countries. So what is your Eminence’s opinion of such lies, and how does a student of knowledge confront them?

Answer:
The call of Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab speaks for itself; it speaks for itself through his books and through its effects on the people and the lands.
Praise be to Allah, it bore fruit and ripened. The lands of Najd were scattered, with every town having an independent ruler, and every town raiding the neighboring town. When this blessed call came and spread in these lands, they united, and affection and love were established, and the manifestations of shirk (associating partners with Allah), bid'ah (religious innovation), and superstitions that were in them were removed, so they became pure and clean, and praise be to Allah.
Praise be to Allah, its effects are renewed and its good expands, so we do not pay attention to the distorters, the enemies, and the envious. They will say what they will say, but the truth rises and nothing rises above it. The Shaykh’s call speaks for itself and by what it affected, and by the good that resulted from it, and by the unity of word that resulted from it, and by the spread of beneficial knowledge that resulted from it. The lands of Najd became lands of knowledge, lands of tawhid (the oneness of Allah), and lands of good, to which visitors come and benefit from them in knowledge, religion, and worldly affairs. It speaks for itself, even if they say what they say.