Refuting the Doubt That the Salafi Call Does Not Keep Pace with the Times

Question:
One of them says, and one of the callers says, that the Wahhabi call, and all the Salafi calls, have not kept pace with the era in which they live, including the call of Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab. So how do we respond to this doubt?

Answer:
The response is easy, and praise be to Allah. He says to him: What is keeping pace? What is the word "keeping pace"?
And what does it mean that it lives in one valley while the people of the era are in another valley? This is the one who has not kept pace: the questioner, or the one who says this word, is the one who has not kept pace with what the children of Adam are upon. It is as if he is in another world and does not know. Also, he lived through the calls of the scholars, he witnessed them, and he knew that they were contrary to their societies. Or he is a person of desire who wants to erase the calls of the Imams with a word and a stroke of the pen. Glory be to Allah, a person does not think about the word he says. Perhaps he says one word by which he falls into the Fire, farther than the distance between the East and the West. This is a transgression against all the Imams and against all the callers to Allah. And that their call is nothing and is not in accordance with the need of the era. So he has from Allah what he deserves. Yes.