The Position on People’s Speech and Their Taunting of the People of Truth

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, some of the supporters label those who establish a sunnah in a year that they exalt, and with them are others who complicate the Salaf’s obligations, saying that in the entrusted matters with the judges, the leadership is correct, then the muezzin is changed.

Answer:
Yes, they will say what they say, and it is none of our concern. They say what they please. If we are confident in the truth we are upon, it does not harm us that such and such is said about us, or that we are accused of such and such, or taunted with such and such. This does not concern us. The people of truth have always been taunted and spoken about, but what harm did this do them? It did not turn them away from their creed or from the truth they possess. So we do not pay attention to these statements, and they do not harm anyone but their owners; indeed, they do not harm anyone but their owners, ever.