A Response to Those Who Diminish the State’s Efforts in Serving the Pilgrims

The questioner:
Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. In truth, Your Excellency the Shaykh, I take advantage of and utilize this opportunity to offer, on behalf of all the Arab delegations in this assembly, the Ministry’s sincere thanks to all of us, led by Your Eminence, for the obstacles that were removed.
And you are in the position of Shaykh Salih, who was granted the kindness of facilitating things for the Muslims in accordance with the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). So may Allah reward you for all the deeds we mention, and may Allah reward you, honorable attendees, for your new month and for dedicating this precious title to us. Welcome, and we are eager to listen to your guidance.
I also thank Your Excellency the Minister, may Allah forgive me, who is very concerned and follows up on this meeting from start to finish to ensure that the honorable scholars benefit. Likewise, thanks to the Hajj, which has been with the Shaykh for years; a successful man who records for the prayer of the Exalted and Exalted, praise for what is done of great efforts in the Hajj.
Our Shaykh, if your time permits, please give us all some guidance. We, the callers, see these great, large, and blessed efforts that the state is undertaking on all fronts and levels.
Then, we may face, whether in our work of clarification or even in the media we read, those who may try to politicize these works or politicize this state, or diminish its efforts. So what is the guidance? The guidance of our honorable and noble scholars for the callers in such situations, and how should our position be if we encounter something of this, whether in the time of clarifying answers to questions or when we see someone diminishing the efforts of our state in this group?

The Shaykh:
Yes, you must respond to this aggression against the state's efforts and the denial of its beneficial and valuable works by responding to them with kindness. Argue with them in the best manner. So you must respond to such aggressive statements that deny the efforts of this blessed state, the lawful efforts that conform to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Yes.

The questioner:
May Allah reward you and thank you, Your Excellency the Shaykh, for what you have presented and for enduring the journey to here despite the multitude of your engagements. May Allah preserve you, but this is what we have always known of you and our scholars: the dedication of time and effort to students of knowledge and to questioners. We ask Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) to grant us sincerity in word and deed, to make the efforts successful, to bless this season with success, and to preserve the security and stability of this country and its rulers under the leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz (may Allah preserve him), supported by his loyal and trustworthy Crown Prince and the loyal sons of this blessed land, who have spared no effort in serving Islam and Muslims in all fields, and specifically in serving the Two Holy Mosques and their development, and those who come to them for Hajj, 'Umrah, and visitation. And our final supplication is that all praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and all his Companions. Thank you. That is it. Now, we support the request from here. Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and blessings.

The Shaykh:
O Kashaf, Kashaf, I show you. Do you see what is permissible regarding exaggeration? What am I drinking? Please, go ahead. That is enough, it means it is clear. The Shaykh will come down, the Shaykh will come down. Come on, go, go.