What is your advice to those who rebuke the ones who warn against aiding the oppressors?

The Shaykh : There is something else regarding it. Yes.

The questioner : All praise is due to Allah, we praise Him. May Allah bless you, O Shaykh. And may Allah do the same for you all, if Allah wills. What should our reaction be, or rather, what is your advice to some of our brothers when we warn some people not to resort to [un-Islamic] courts or not to aid these oppressors, and some of our brothers rebuke us for what we say? Of course, we say that it should be known that we see more positives than negatives, and there is acceptance, and there is no harm. So what is your advice to them? May Allah bless you. To those who rebuke us.

The Shaykh : What are they rebuking, my brother?

The questioner : When we speak out the truth and warn some of the heedless Muslims not to resort to the taghut or regarding this matter. Knowing that there is no harm. May Allah bless you.

The Shaykh : If the matter is as you say, then they are the ones who rebuke the Shari'ah, which commands enjoining good and forbidding evil. And we mentioned earlier that enjoining good and forbidding evil are among the Islamic obligations. But if a greater harm results from them than the harm they prevent, then it moves to the second rank mentioned in the authentic hadith: If no harm results from the rebuke...
...or from enjoining good, but a greater harm results from them, then the rebuke in that case means rebuking the Shari'ah. And in this case, it is either practical disbelief or creedal disbelief, because contradicting the Shari'ah is undoubtedly forbidden. But it may be disbelief if one contradicts the Shari'ah in creed. Therefore, the answer to your question, may Allah bless you, is very clear and known to everyone. I do not think anyone doubts that if the matter is as you described—that they rebuke the enjoiners of good and forbidders of evil on the claim that it stirs up fitnah—this is a pattern we have known since the earliest times. Therefore, one should not pay attention to them, and we say as Allah the Exalted said: [regarding] the ignorant ones in the recent past. And this is, in reality, a good omen. For the first time, a young man from Skopje—meaning from a place called Safiyyah—called me and spoke and rambled, of course, in your language. In my rambling, this is the first time, and he spoke about the Sunnah and calling to it.
He says that in Skopje, there are young men to whom the da'wah reached through the cassettes that reached us here. Some of our Albanian brothers, you know them, yes, sat with me for about a year in many sessions. And I singled them out among our brothers for increasing cooperation with them in knowledge. And they record cassettes. Of course, I am still, and praise be to Allah, remembering more of my language, which had almost become forgotten in my mind, which is the Albanian language. So this was from the grace of Allah upon me that I was able to record many cassettes related to tawhid (the oneness of Allah), creed, visiting graves, festivals, and their harms, and so on. My companion, who named himself Saif al-Din—this is regarding the existence of non-Arabic names like Nasir al-Din and Muhyi al-Din, and so on—the point is, he says that we, praise be to Allah, gathered on these cassettes and understood that we were far from understanding Islam correctly.
One of his questions was: Is it permissible for us to take a place where we pray and leave the mosques because of their much contradiction of us and their saying to us, "You are the ones stirring up fitnah here"? The point is, they stir up fitnah. So I told him what means: History repeats itself. Always, the criminals say this about the prophets, messengers, and advising callers: "You are stirring up fitnah." Do you not hear this false call here in this same country?
So history repeats itself. I answered regarding these two questions: First, do not leave praying with the Muslim congregations. Second, soften your speech to them. And as Allah the Exalted said: and so on. And I say on this occasion that the nature of the truth is heavy. So if this heavy truth, by the nature of humans, especially those who are far from the guidance of Islam and the Sunnah of Islam, and so on, if this truth, which is its nature for many human souls, is accompanied by the heaviness of bad style, then it will be repulsive to these people. Therefore, mix with them and pray with them, even if the imam is not on the Sunnah, and as they say, is an innovator. And there is no doubt that if the imams—and I mean by imams, technically, the imams of the mosques in Arab countries—are far from the correct Sunnah, what can be said about the imams of the mosques in non-Arabic countries?
Even more so. Therefore, I told him as advice: Mix with them and pray behind them. If something arises in your hearts regarding the validity or invalidity of the prayer, then repeat the prayer in your homes with your families and your women, and so on. And do not cut ties with them. Then, if you are able later to build a mosque on the Sunnah and gather in it, as the Companions gathered in the mosque of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), the Mosque of Quba, then that would be better. As for withdrawing into some of your homes and leaving the mosques that gather the Muslims, this is what we do not advise you to do. As for the second matter, I recited to him: So we advise you to be patient. The da'wah to the truth is always heavy, and this is a known matter in the Prophetic biography and the biographies of the prophets with their nations, and so on.
So it was, praise be to Allah, a connection, a recent one, we do not know of a like of it before this time. So this is a good omen that the da'wah has begun to conquer those non-Arabic countries, and praise be to Allah.

The questioner : Allah willed only to perfect His light.

The Shaykh : Glorified and Exalted is He.

The questioner : It is He who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion to make it prevail over all religion.

The Shaykh: Allah has spoken the truth.

The presenter : Allah does not leave the orphans.

The questioner : Instead of what is provided.

The presenter : The cassettes in Albanian, in the Albanian language. Also, he estimated what is equivalent to one hundred and eighty cassettes in Arabic and other languages.

The Shaykh : Yes, but you don't know, not everyone understands the Arabic language.

The questioner : The Shaykh's language with the Shaykh's voice is different from the Arabic language with the Shaykh's voice. May Allah guide you. Okay.