Is it permissible for a Salafi to join the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood to work through them?
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The questioner : All right, is it permissible for a Salafi to join the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood to work through them, given that the Muslim Brotherhood deviate in many matters that they consider minor but which are actually obligatory?
The Shaykh : Pardon me, I did not grasp the question with the last phrase; with what?
The questioner : I mean, the Muslim Brotherhood do things that they consider minor, for example shaving the beard, which is actually obligatory, and they have other examples similar to this from the perspective of ... .
The Shaykh : This example is sufficient.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, the Salafi.
The questioner : Is it permissible for him to join the work?
The Shaykh : And shave his beard?
The questioner : No, but if he cannot work because he denounces the wrong or something similar, is it permissible for him to remain silent for the sake of da'wah (calling to Islam) and the like?
The Shaykh : The Shaykh : The answer is: If they give him the freedom to call to what he believes to be the Shari'ah and the Sunnah, then it is permissible for him to do so, and in fact, it is obligatory for him. For without a doubt, and I know the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, they are among the groups closest to the Salafi da'wah. And if it were not for their being afflicted with preoccupation with politics to the neglect of studying the Book and the Sunnah, their outcome would have been to become Salafis like us. So, if the opportunity is given to any of us to call to the Salafi da'wah within the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood, I see no obstacle to it. Rather, I say it is obligatory for him to seize this opportunity; but with the aforementioned condition that he does not follow them or support them in the methods they adopt that contradict our da'wah.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : This is my opinion.
The Shaykh : Pardon me, I did not grasp the question with the last phrase; with what?
The questioner : I mean, the Muslim Brotherhood do things that they consider minor, for example shaving the beard, which is actually obligatory, and they have other examples similar to this from the perspective of ... .
The Shaykh : This example is sufficient.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, the Salafi.
The questioner : Is it permissible for him to join the work?
The Shaykh : And shave his beard?
The questioner : No, but if he cannot work because he denounces the wrong or something similar, is it permissible for him to remain silent for the sake of da'wah (calling to Islam) and the like?
The Shaykh : The Shaykh : The answer is: If they give him the freedom to call to what he believes to be the Shari'ah and the Sunnah, then it is permissible for him to do so, and in fact, it is obligatory for him. For without a doubt, and I know the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, they are among the groups closest to the Salafi da'wah. And if it were not for their being afflicted with preoccupation with politics to the neglect of studying the Book and the Sunnah, their outcome would have been to become Salafis like us. So, if the opportunity is given to any of us to call to the Salafi da'wah within the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood, I see no obstacle to it. Rather, I say it is obligatory for him to seize this opportunity; but with the aforementioned condition that he does not follow them or support them in the methods they adopt that contradict our da'wah.
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : This is my opinion.
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