Guidance for Students of Knowledge Regarding Malicious Parties and Groups

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah reward you. We ask you for a concluding word of guidance for the students of knowledge regarding the malicious parties and groups that have begun to appear, with calls to join them spreading among the youth. May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
This land, and all praise is due to Allah, was one group and one community upon the truth. They were one group, and no division was known among them. There were no barriers or divisions or scattered ideas among them; rather, their thought was one and their direction was one. Their creed was tawhid (the oneness of Allah), their morals were based on Islam, and all praise is due to Allah, and they followed the methodology of the righteous Salaf in all their affairs. Yes.
Their rulers and the ruled, their rich and their poor, their elders and their young, their males and their females, they are all one community from one end of the country to the other. This country does not allow the acceptance of imported methodologies, imported schools of thought, or imported ideas, because, praise be to Allah, it is rich in what it has of truth and unity upon the Book and the Sunnah, something for which there is no parallel in the countries of the world today. This country, praise be to Allah, is the best of the countries of the world in security and stability, in creed, in morals and behavior, in all matters, and that is by the blessing of following the Book and the Sunnah, and then by the blessing of the call of the renewer, the Imam Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him), and his supporters among the rulers of this country, may Allah guide them. It is not permissible for this country to accept any imported idea, any imported school of thought, or any imported methodology, because it has, praise be to Allah, what suffices it from that. This is not a matter of accepting or rejecting the truth; no, rather, the truth exists, praise be to Allah, so what would the importer bring to us? If he wants the truth, let him take from the truth we have, praise be to Allah. And if he wants division and destruction, we say no; we do not allow any school of thought, any principle, or any party to enter among us, because that would divide our community, remove our blessing, and return us to what this country was like before this call, to the matters of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance and division. And Allah the Exalted forbade division. He said: He said: He said: "I am not of them in any way." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Allah the Exalted says: . What do these people want? They want the rectification of the creed. This exists with us, and all praise is due to Allah. They want ruling by what Allah has revealed. This exists with us, and all praise is due to Allah. They want enjoining good and forbidding evil. This exists with us, and all praise is due to Allah. They want the establishment of the hudud (the fixed Qur'anic punishments). This exists with us, and all praise is due to Allah. I do not say that we are perfect in every aspect. I say that we have shortcomings, but we can rectify these shortcomings, with the permission of Allah, if we are sincere to Allah the Mighty and Majestic and we advise one another among ourselves in the Sharia'ah way, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The religion is sincere advice. The religion is sincere advice." So we can rectify what we have of defects and shortcomings, even if it is a little, and all praise is due to Allah. It may be much, but it does not harm the creed and it does not harm the sound methodology. Yes, during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), there were those who committed zina (unlawful sexual intercourse), and there were those who stole during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and there were those who killed souls without right. But the hudud were established against them, and good was enjoined and evil was forbidden. Likewise, in our time, the hudud are established, and all praise is due to Allah, and good is enjoined and evil is forbidden, even if shortcomings exist. As for it being said that a new foundation is necessary and a new community must be established, that is from falsehood, intended to remove this blessing that exists in this land?