The Shaykh Al-Albani's opinion of Al-Sha'rawi.

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The Shaykh : But regarding Shaykh Al-Sha'rawi, he is indeed beneficial in some respects, but in other respects he misleads people, because they do not know this. This is in response to that question.

The questioner : He believes, O Shaykh, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is the origin of existence. He cites the hadith of Jabir. Shaykh Muhammad ibn Jamil Zaynu refuted him in the book "The Pillars of Islam and Faith."

The Shaykh : How?

The questioner : Shaykh Muhammad ibn Jamil Zaynu refuted him.

The Shaykh : Yes, yes, this is one of his beliefs. He says that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is the origin of existence. And Muhammad is not as Allah the Exalted said in the Noble Qur'an:

not but a messenger. [Other] messengers have passed on before him. So if he was to die or be killed, would you turn back on your heels

إِلَّا رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ أَفَإِنْ مَاتَ أَوْ قُتِلَ انْقَلَبْتُمْ عَلَى أَعْقَابِكُمْ

[Ali 'Imran 3:144]

to the end of the verse. They say, and perhaps you have heard this: Muhammad was created from the light of Allah. Have you heard this or not?
The student : No, I have not heard it.

The Shaykh : It exists in Syria, it exists in Jordan, and they even have a hadith that says:

The first thing Allah created was the light of your Prophet, O Jabir

أول ما خلق الله نور نبيِّك يا جابر

Have you not heard this hadith either?
The student : I heard it from Al-Sha'rawi.

The Shaykh : Ha, ha, it is like what they say about their legs. This is how falsehood is refuted. How could Allah create Muhammad from His light, when the first thing Allah created was the light of your Prophet, O Jabir? The authentic hadith, as I mentioned earlier, is:

The first thing Allah created was the Pen, and He said to it: Write. It said: What shall I write? He said: Write what is destined to happen until the Day of Resurrection

أول ما خلق الله القلم فقال له : اكتب ، قال ما أكتب ؟ قال : اكتب ما هو كائن إلى يوم القيامة

And then we know from the genealogy of the Messenger that Muhammad is the son of Abdullah, the son of Abd al-Muttalib, and so on, and then the chain of lineage is broken. But in any case, who is his first grandfather? Adam (peace be upon him), because as he (peace be upon him) said in the authentic hadith:

and the people are the children of Adam, and Adam is from dirt

كلُّكم من آدم وآدم من تراب

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3956Hasan (Darussalam)

How is it that Muhammad, between him and Adam, Allah knows how many grandfathers there are, and before all of them he was created from light? This requires a faith and a large brain that does not exist in this universe, to believe in such superstitions. As for the general Muslims and some of the specific ones among them, and you are a witness, and among them is Shaykh Al-Sha'rawi, they believe in this superstition. This hadith is not in al-Bukhari, nor in Muslim, nor in the four Sunan, nor in the Forty, nor in the Four Hundred. There is absolutely no basis for this hadith, except, if I may express it that way, in the brains of the superstitious. It exists there and that is all. Is this Islam? "Islam is what Allah said, what His Messenger said, what the Companions said, not by deception," and so on, as Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) said.

The questioner : Shaykh...

The Shaykh : Yes, in one place.

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