What is your comment on the focus on the two verses regarding menstruation rather than the verses regarding the Jews and Christians?

The questioner : In the name of Allah. Your Eminence the Shaykh, I was sitting with one of the da'is (callers to Islam) and he told me that the Salafi da'is have focused on two verses from the Book of Allah, namely the two verses regarding menstruation, because Allah did not reveal anything other than these two verses, whereas they did not contribute to or elaborate on the verses that speak about the Jews and Christians as they elaborated on these two verses. So what is your comment, may Allah preserve you?

The Shaykh : Our comment is that detailing the speech on these topics makes the generalization unnecessary, because the issue of the Jews and Christians is that they are a sect or a group, or they have a status of three statuses: either they are dhimmis (protected non-Muslims), or they are musta'min (non-Muslims granted safe conduct), or they are muharibin (those at war). Do you understand this? Now, who applies this ruling, or this, or that? The general Muslim population, and we are part of the general Muslim population, even if we have some knowledge, or are they the rulers of the Muslims?

The questioner : Our rulers.

The Shaykh : Well, is it not enough that we mention in our words, and often we say, and our brothers here, the witnesses, mention that when there is an occasion we say: Allah Blessed and Exalted is He said: .
and so on. Is this not enough? Rather, we set our effort like the effort of the Jews and Christians and speak about it with words that have no practical benefit, because this is one of those matters that concern the Muslim ruler, and the Muslim ruler now does not rule. And in the midst of some of the questions just now, yes, by dividing the conditions of the Islamic world into, for example, good, better, bad, and worst, and so on. Today, unfortunately, there is no Muslim ruler who rules by what Allah has revealed.
Some of the rulers whom we thought were good, and that the people they rule are the best of peoples in that they understand tawhid (the oneness of Allah), and that they are further than anyone from rigidity and taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence), and preferring the sayings of the shaykhs and scholars over the saying of Allah Blessed and Exalted is He. This people is now ruled by a ruling that does not come from their rulers, but by a ruling imposed on their rulers from the outside. The proof is that a time not so long ago passed when jihad in the path of Allah was declared in words, but then no means was taken to make it a reality. So what is the benefit of the word I quoted, which is repeating speech about the Jews and Christians, when it is enough for us to call to tawhid, and that everyone who opposes tawhid, we say, for example, those who drone on about the Jews and Christians.
Should they not also drone on about the Majus (Zoroastrians) and the Buddhists, and those who kill our brothers in Kashmir, and so on? My brother, it is enough to have words on some occasions so that the Muslims know their very painful reality. But droning on about these issues where speech does not benefit, only action benefits. And unfortunately, there is no ability for such action. Second, is there not an accusation in this speech against the Salafis that they work on what? I said?
Is this correct? No, this is not cutting off the branch, nor is it slander. They know the truth: the Salafis, both their scholars and their common people, are always singing about the creed and about purifying the Sunnah from what has crept into it, whereas those who accuse the Salafis of what I mentioned do not work at all in these two areas. So which of the two is on the straighter path and upholds the word? And we ask Allah for safety.

The presenter : No, is this not cutting off? Is this not baseless? And they know the truth. The Salafis, both their specialists and their general public, always drone on about 'aqidah (creed) and about purifying the Sunnah from what has entered it. Whereas those who accuse the Salafis of what I mentioned do not work at all in these two aspects. So which of them is on the straighter path and establishes the word? And we ask Allah for safety.

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