The Ruling on Going Out with the Tabligh Group

The questioner:
The questioner says: Regarding your statement about the groups, specifically the group of the Call and Administration, should we go out with them? We know there are hypocrites who need them.

The Shaykh:
No, I do not advise going out with them. First, because they are Sufis, the followers of Sufism who established the school in Pakistan. They are Sufis from the extremists of Sufism. Also, their actions show the influence of Sufism; even here, Sufism is evident in their actions. There are things in their practices that belong to Sufism. Furthermore, they are ignorant; they have no knowledge, and they are ignorant about learning knowledge. They have some bid'ah (religious innovations), such as the commitment to leaving for forty days or four months. And they have, for example, the six principles they call the six, or the six fundamentals. There is no evidence from the Sunnah for these. So the result is that it is not permissible to go out with them. It is not permissible to go out with them. Rather, one must be liberated from them. And the da'wah (calling to Islam), praise be to Allah, in our lands is clear. It is on a sound methodology. It is on a sound creed. And it is based on knowledge. So what is our need to be liberated from the group of Tabi'iyyah or such and such a group? Let us suppose what we are upon; the methodology we are upon, we are certain of its validity. And it has proven its validity, praise be to Allah, from the beginning of the second century until now. And it is, praise be to Allah, a society that has arisen, and a state has been established upon it. The state has been established with security, stability, and tranquility. So why do we leave this methodology and this correct Sunnah way and embrace other suspicious methodologies about which we know nothing and do not know their people? Yes.