Advice to the Youth of the Awakening Regarding Hatred and Disagreement

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, hatred and animosity have become widespread among the youth of the awakening in general, and students of knowledge in particular, in matters concerning creed or specific jurisprudential issues. Do you have any advice for such youth? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Yes, what the questioner mentioned is a reality, unfortunately. The cause of this is the prevalence of ignorance and the prevalence of desire. There is no cure for this except repentance to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He).
And turning to learning from the people of knowledge, attending the gatherings of the people of knowledge, and taking knowledge from the scholars, not from books, not from those who are beginners in seeking knowledge, and not from scholars whose trustworthiness and verification of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) are not known, because there are among the scholars those who are scholars of misguidance. It is obligatory that we learn knowledge from its people, that we seek knowledge from the verified scholars known for uprightness, sincerity, and knowledge of tawhid and the correct creed and the sound methodology, and we proceed with the truthful ones and we should beware of division and disagreement. Allah has warned us against that. If a disagreement arises among us, if we dispute over something, this one says the ruling is such and such, and that one says the ruling is such and such, praise be to Allah, the reference is to the Book and the Sunnah . The occurrence of disagreement is a reality . The occurrence of disagreement is a reality, but the issue is how to end this disagreement. The believing Muslims end this disagreement by returning to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger. So whoever has the truth, follow him.
As for the people of desires, may Allah protect us from them, these people do not accept the truth; rather, they follow their desires. They do not follow the Book and the Sunnah; they follow their desires and what their leaders have prescribed for them. And they say, perhaps they say a terrible statement: they are more knowledgeable about the Book and the Sunnah than we are.
More knowledgeable than us in the Book and the Sunnah? I do not know. Well, if you do not know, why do you not learn? Why do you remain in your ignorance? You say, "I am a follower of bankruptcy and a follower of bankruptcy." Learn, the door of knowledge is open, praise be to Allah. Know the truth, know the truth and act upon it, and leave falsehood and the people of falsehood. If you want to save yourself, as some of the Salaf (the earliest generations) said: "Know the men by the truth."
Do not know the truth by the men. That is, the truth is not what so-and-so or so-and-so or such-and-such a group is upon. Rather, the groups and the men are those who are known by the truth. Whoever is holding fast to the truth, that is proof that he is guided. So know the men by the truth, and do not know the truth by the men. This is a great word. So it is obligatory to end these disagreements by correct learning, and returning to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and leaving the imported ideas that come to us from other countries, about which Allah knows best, countries of ignorance, countries of loss. Our country, praise be to Allah, is the land of da'wah (calling others to Islam) from the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) until our time. It is the land of da'wah, and it is the one that exports good to the world, praise be to Allah. And there are still in it scholars known for trustworthiness, justice, and knowledge of the truth, and we are all one group.
Our leaders, our common people, and our scholars, all of them, praise be to Allah, are one group. This division was not known in this land until these ideas came from outside, dividing our youth. If our youth had proceeded on the path of their predecessors, the people of good, the people of knowledge, the people of tawhid, and the people of creed, this disagreement would not have occurred.
We must teach the people, and not learn from outside, from so-and-so and so-and-so. We import foreign and suspicious ideas, and we do not know about them, and Allah knows their realities, where they originated, and who created them. These ideas are sifted and distinguished. And we have, praise be to Allah, the obligation to teach the people good, to teach the people tawhid, and to teach the people the correct path, because good, praise be to Allah, still exists among us. So why do we waste the good we have and accept ideas from outside and proceed upon them? And we enact systems that we bring from outside and proceed upon them, and we leave the system that was tried in this land, upon which nations and generations proceeded, and the affair of the ummah (the Muslim community) was rectified, praise be to Allah, throughout the previous generations. The affair of the ummah was rectified upon it and it was tried. Why do we leave it?
And we import ideas and methodologies foreign to our country. If these methodologies are suitable in their countries, they are not suitable in our country, because our society, to whatever extent, is a society that increases, a righteous society, a society that proceeds upon truth, upon a straight path. And if there is a defect in it, it is corrected and punished for it, praise be to Allah. The hudud (the fixed Qur'anic punishments) are established, the hudud are established in our country, and good is enjoined and evil is forbidden, and there are no clear, apparent scenes. If there is something hidden, that is the responsibility of the one who hid it. And as for anything apparent, praise be to Allah, there is nothing apparent in it, due to the blessing of the da'wah of tawhid. So why do we deny this blessing and replace it with something else?
And we bring methodologies and ideas from outside. This, by Allah, is very regrettable. But we hope that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) will rectify us, rectify our youth, rectify what has occurred of defect, and return everyone to the right path. Ahmad.