What is your advice regarding the proliferation of Islamic groups?

Question:
The Islamic groups have multiplied in a single country; here is the Muslim Brotherhood, here is the Tabligh group, here is the Salafi group, the Renewal group, and the group of strict scholars. Each group disparages the other and tries to entice and recruit a large number of young people. So what is Your Eminence’s advice regarding this? Thank you.

Answer:
You have heard the words of the two Shaykhs on this matter, and there is no doubt that the multiplication of groups poses a great danger. It is obligatory for them to be one, to cooperate in righteousness and piety, to advise one another, not to harm one another, and not to accuse one another. Rather, mutual advice and cooperation are better. Allah says: And He the Exalted says: "And by time, indeed, mankind is in loss" So the goal is obedience to Allah and His Messenger, and calling people to obey Allah and His Messenger. It is obligatory for these groups—the Tabligh groups, the Salafi groups, the Muslim Brotherhood, and others—it is obligatory for them to cooperate in righteousness and piety, and to advise one another with gentleness, good speech, and kind words, not with violence, harshness, or accusation. Among the calamities is the fact that these accuse those, and those accuse these, so they become divided and harm the general public, to the point that the general public is confused by this, not knowing whom to follow among them, or whom to obey among them. It is obligatory for all groups that the goal be obedience to Allah and His Messenger, not merely the acquisition of wealth or the increase of followers, but rather that the goal be obedience to Allah, the goal being obedience to Allah and His Messenger. If each of them has this as their goal, they will unite on the truth . If there are other goals, such as following desires, extracting people's money, or other things, or wars against the state, or otherwise, then these are different desires that harm the Muslims, harm themselves, and harm the groups themselves. So it is obligatory for all of them to testify to the truth. There is no doubt that the Salafi groups, who follow the righteous Salaf and continue on the path of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) in creed, morals, and actions, are these groups. So if they are sincere in that and upright, they are the best of the groups; because the righteous Salaf are the best of the nation, those who followed the path of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the path of his Companions, so they obeyed the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), applied his Shari'ah, left what he forbade, cooperated in piety, advised one another, and enjoining good and forbidding evil. This is the path of the Salaf, this is the path of the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). So it is obligatory for the group of Muslim Brothers, the group of Tabligh, the group of Tahrir, and every group, whatever name it calls itself, it is obligatory for all of them that their goal be obedience to Allah and His Messenger and following the Shari'ah wherever they are, and that they do not form factions against their brothers for the sake of desire or for the sake of wealth. This is the obligation for everyone. And it is upon the rulers in any country where these people are born to gather them and advise them, or to appoint scholars to look into their affairs so that they may guide them to the Shari'ah direction, and so that they do not dispute or become disordered. Yes.