What is the ruling on the religious magazines published in Britain?

The questioner : A magazine is published in Britain, the Islamic Forum Center in London, called Al-Bayan. I do not know if you have seen it. Also, in Birmingham, the Islamic Studies Center, there is also a magazine called Al-Sunnah, but it is new. Where is this? At the Islamic Studies Center, the magazine is called Al-Sunnah.

The Shaykh : Where is the Islamic Studies Center?

The questioner : In Birmingham, in Britain, likewise.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : And this was published about six or seven months ago.

The Shaykh : What is the question, roughly?

The questioner : The question is, have you seen it?

The Shaykh : Al-Bayan.

The questioner : As for Al-Sunnah.

The Shaykh : I do not remember. Oh. The point is, my brother, those who publish religious magazines today are all young men. They are not shaykhs. And if they are not shaykhs, then one cannot trust the outcome of their affairs.

The questioner : But what is the methodology they started with, or are they following until now?

The Shaykh : The methodology does not appear in one or two years.

The questioner : Yes, roughly.

The Shaykh : The magazine Al-Furqan. Its methodology was openly Salafi, and then it turned to an Ikhwan methodology. And this methodology divided the Salafi group in all lands of Islam. So a person today must be very, very cautious.

The questioner : That this is the straight path.

The Shaykh : I mean. The group that published the magazine Al-Tabyan. Where did they receive the Salafi da'wah?

The questioner : Al-Tabyan or Al-Bay' (sale)? Do you mean Al-Bay' (sale)?

The Shaykh : Al-Bayan, where did they receive the da'wah?

The questioner : In Kuwait.

The Shaykh : In Kuwait.

The questioner : Yes, that is what I know until now.

The Shaykh : Do you know?

The questioner : They went to London and the printing of this magazine began.

The Shaykh : Was he from the Salafis in Kuwait, or was he from the Muslim Brotherhood?

The questioner : I do not know, but what appears from the methodology is that he is known. I know

The Shaykh : that he is from the Muslim Brothers. Al-Bayan. Yes. He was not the first to establish it. One named... Now I am remembering from your speech that the one who saw the magazine Al-Sunnah is the one who had seen Al-Bayan, then a disagreement arose between those in charge of the magazine Al-Bayan, so the founder of it separated from Al-Bayan and published the magazine Al-Sunnah.

The questioner : Muhammad Sarur Zayn al-Abid.

The Shaykh : Yes, is this not what you mean? He is a Muslim Brother.

The questioner : I recently, for the first time, learned this from you, but I mean the magazine I read, I see their 'aqidah (creed) is from the people of the Sunnah and the community?

The Shaykh : My brother, this is talk, but it is not digested. Where did the group live? Those who live are the Muslim Brothers. This is not Salafi. But the group, these, perhaps they have some Salafi information they took from other than their Ikhwan group, and they found that the prevailing market now is the Salafi da'wah, so they mounted it and rode it, and the purpose is not the da'wah but money. A fitnah (trial) of the Ummah (community) of money. Sarur is the one who established Al-Bayan. Do you know this or not?

The questioner : Yes, I learned this after Al-Sunnah was published.

The Shaykh : Well, what made him separate from the group?

The questioner : I thought that he reached a certain stage, then he began to follow the path of politics and detail, and left this to Muhammad al-Abbas.

The Shaykh : Yes, that is how it is, that is how it is, meaning there is a disagreement in methodology. I wonder, this one who wrote the magazine Al-Sunnah, what is his knowledge of the Sunnah? Nothing. Sarur is a close friend of Zuhayr al-Shawish.

The questioner : Zuhayr al-Shawish.

The Shaykh : A close friend of Zuhayr al-Shawish. Zuhayr al-Shawish is better than Sarur in his understanding of the da'wah by hundreds of times. If he published the magazine Al-Bayan or Al-Sunnah, do not trust him, because he is not a scholar. The time today is a time of fitnah (trial) from every side, from the multitude of letters that are composed, the multitude of books that are published, the multitude of publishing offices.

The questioner : These are the printing.

The Shaykh : Allah is the Greatest. I mean. We have a book here. Perhaps you have the complete part, you have the table, the table is flat.

The questioner : Yes, yes, and woe to the men.

The Shaykh : Yes, this is seven volumes containing errors of the most severe kind possible.

The questioner : Typographical.

The Shaykh : Yes, why? Because there are no scholars among them who can read my handwriting. This is not a script from tongues, and it is written. Open the first page and see what is written. Under the supervision of a committee of what specialists. Under the title.

The questioner : Verification.

The Shaykh : What verification?

The questioner : Verification and checking by a committee of specialists under the supervision of the publisher.

The Shaykh : Liars. These are the most ignorant of people, and this publisher is more ignorant than them, yet he placed himself above them.

The questioner : Who is he, my brother?

The Shaykh : This is one of the Syrians, I forgot his name now. The point is in the errors, errors in hadith that you cannot understand, and also the errors. I had to rely on a copy from our brother Dr. 'Asem, this is the complete one.

The questioner : Yes, this is the original.

The Shaykh : This original is a manuscript. I do not know if I will finish it from the manuscript or otherwise, but the point is, I am in a hurry and I have spent my life among manuscripts, correcting sometimes for my family, and the Egyptian helps me. Sometimes I stand confused, what is this word originally? I rely on this manuscript. Sometimes it is resolved, sometimes it is not. I mean, the Islamic world today is in this state: the material is in the material, and the destruction is in the material. It has two forms: a purely material form, like the banks, for example, which do not prohibit or permit for him, and a scientific form, which is the most dangerous thing. Do they fulfill letters that they are not qualified for? Do they publish these letters, print them, are they not qualified for them? Do they look at magazines, all young men, not one of them is proficient in memorizing the Qur'an, proficient in memorizing hadith, proficient in fiqh (jurisprudence), proficient in Islamic history. He eats from here and here and here, and looks at a magazine and takes subscribers. Allah is the Greatest.

The questioner : By Allah, my Shaykh, the truth is I want to say this word and I say my affair is to Allah the Mighty and Majestic. It is difficult, my Shaykh, for many people to understand your speech.

The Shaykh : Me.

The questioner : I only.

The Shaykh : I know, and this is from the strangeness (ghurba) of Islam.

The questioner : Now, my Shaykh, when I spoke to you a few days ago, meaning regarding my sons and their upbringing, although look how close we are to you and what we learn from you, meaning you are always, Subhan Allah al-Azim (Glory be to Allah the Great), like this, meaning we share with you on the phone personally, like this. What do we try to restrict the boys? We are not able, so how, my Shaykh, the rest of the people?

The Shaykh : Allahu Akbar.

The questioner : A person came to me today, my Shaykh, at the place, not two jobs, not one job. The first, a person with me, I did not notice the child until the end, meaning I say, please give me, we need to bring food for the family, give me. It turned out like this, and I found him a man, not normal. I said to him, are you awake? He said to me, yes, I am awake. I got up, my Shaykh, on him and held him by his... and put my nose on his... He said to me, his smell is all khamr (intoxicants). I did not touch it, nor was I joking. I hit him, I fixed him properly. A big man, or a poor child, perhaps his age is four years. He was with me. I was pained for the child, again, poor, carrying himself and the child ran. And he, of course, when I hit him, the first hobby and the second hobby on the ground, and then I returned, you once.