What is the guidance for youth regarding affiliations such as Salafiyyah and the Muslim Brotherhood?
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Question : This questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah bless you, some affiliations have spread among some of the youth, both those before you and others, such as Salafism, the Muslim Brotherhood, and others that were not known before. What is your guidance regarding this?
Answer : I see that a person should avoid all these groups, all these factions, except for affiliation to the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the path of the righteous predecessors. However, this should not be in the form of an established party with an opposing party, like the Islamic Party or the Liberation Party, and the like of those parties which are questionable. Without a doubt, partisanship leads a person to make the truth falsehood and falsehood truth. You find some people whom you know completely see such a matter as obligatory, or see this as forbidden, but then when they join a party, they follow the path of the party they belong to, even if yesterday they believed it was not correct. Therefore, I warn my brothers, the youth, from adorning themselves with partisanship except upon the Sunnah of the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and the path of the righteous predecessors. This is necessary. But this path does not have parties. You do not find among the Companions this party and that party and that party. Even if they differed in issues, their hearts, goal, and methodology did not differ. But we find these parties always declaring some of them disbelievers at times, or misleading some of them in an issue where the truth is with the other side.
So a person must avoid all these paths and follow one path, which is what he was commanded to follow Otherwise, if he affiliates with these groups, his desires will lead him to avoid the guidance.
The presenter : Yes,
Answer : I see that a person should avoid all these groups, all these factions, except for affiliation to the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the path of the righteous predecessors. However, this should not be in the form of an established party with an opposing party, like the Islamic Party or the Liberation Party, and the like of those parties which are questionable. Without a doubt, partisanship leads a person to make the truth falsehood and falsehood truth. You find some people whom you know completely see such a matter as obligatory, or see this as forbidden, but then when they join a party, they follow the path of the party they belong to, even if yesterday they believed it was not correct. Therefore, I warn my brothers, the youth, from adorning themselves with partisanship except upon the Sunnah of the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and the path of the righteous predecessors. This is necessary. But this path does not have parties. You do not find among the Companions this party and that party and that party. Even if they differed in issues, their hearts, goal, and methodology did not differ. But we find these parties always declaring some of them disbelievers at times, or misleading some of them in an issue where the truth is with the other side.
So a person must avoid all these paths and follow one path, which is what he was commanded to follow
Hold fast to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided caliphs after me. Adhere to them and bite into them with your molars.
عليكم بسنتي وسنة الخلفاء الراشدين المهديين من بعدي تمسكوا بها وعضوا عليها بالنواجذThe presenter : Yes,
Source
لقاء الشيخ مع طلبة كلية الشريعة وأصول الدين بالقصيم — archive.org (1:03:21)
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