The Difference Between the Saved Sect and the Victorious Sect

Question:
Is there a difference between the saved sect and the victorious sect?

Answer:
Never. I have not heard or read in the books of the Salaf that they distinguish between the sect of the jurists who are the saved group and the sect of the jurists who are the victorious group. The saved group is the victorious group, and it is not victorious unless it is saved, and it is not saved unless it is victorious. Look at Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) in the beginning of *Al-Aqidah al-Wasitiyyah*. He says: "As for what follows, this is the belief of the saved group, the people of the Sunnah and the community, the saved group, the people of the Sunnah and the community." Then he continued the discourse until he mentioned the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him): "…and those who are wrong among them will not harm them, nor those who oppose them." Our imams, past and present, and their words and books do not contain a distinction between the victorious group and the saved group; they are one and the same.