What is the newly invented matter that constitutes a religious innovation?

The questioner : A difficulty has arisen for me. You told us that every newly invented matter is a religious innovation. Indeed, every newly invented matter is a religious innovation, but I do not know about renewal. It is also said that the scholars are the heirs of the prophets. And it is necessary that the scholars of the present not demand that they bring what the scholars of the past did. Second, the word "scholar" now, this term is like "doctor," meaning...

The Shaykh : ...it is common.

The questioner: It is a degraded state, Doctor, Professor, Scholar, it is degraded, According to the school of jurisprudence I follow, the Maliki school, the prophets are infallible and the prophets are truthful; a prophet does not lie. Are these scholars in their current state... Second, I will summarize... the youth, because the poetry... .

The Shaykh : But the questions have multiplied. What do we answer now? The questions have multiplied. If you had separated the questions, one by one, and given an answer to each question.

The questioner : All right, as you wish.

The Shaykh : So the first question. What is it, if you wish, the first question.

The questioner : My important question. The questions are many, but I want to summarize into one question, that is enough.

The Shaykh : Yes, please go ahead.

The questioner : The issue of the Muslim youth. The Muslim youth is now in a state of rebellion, and the rebel is heading toward destruction, not toward misguidance. Because the phrase "a person heading toward misguidance" might reach a goal in the desert, reach something. But this youth is heading toward destruction, where he will remain behind... and behind the world and behind scientific life, and he will remain with nothing, like the Native Americans. These programs, Europe, the West, mean he is heading toward destruction. And the sciences he learns have taken up his time. It is not possible for the youth that we demand of him to study the life of the Messenger, and to study the Qur'an, and to study the exegeses, and so on, along with the other studies. There must be scholars, meaning educators... The thing the youth needs, for example, he says now... youth... they say their needs and their times do not come to them, not that they study - for example - al-Bukhari or others. Yes, there are exceptional individuals... there are people who are exceptional, meaning geniuses... they do not count among the general public. It is necessary, meaning it is necessary to plant the light before them to lead them to reform in the present time, even though... now also the youth, if he takes a doctorate or takes engineering, he is empty, because the professors in the universities in London or in America or elsewhere, the first thing is that they take this... a large amount of time. It is not possible to summarize, meaning it is large. First, go to innovation, it recedes from his mind with arts and things and many witnesses. And the proof of that is they took, take for example Egypt, the scholars and doctors and professors. So Egypt when it needed... it needed a sick man... who has no job in Germany... working with them, meaning... And the proof of that is there is no honest, noble man to manage this issue and bear this responsibility. So this youth, for example, today you do not find that he is capable of taking on the work and that you entrust, for example, he takes on his responsibilities. And if he fails... Muslim or... or nothing, meaning nothing. And we always proceed... Muhammad... Al-Albani. I know from the people because Albania is the best country. They knew the evil Crusaders, and they knew the Christians, and they were also known for fascism, and so on... they hear about it. So now the situation is critical, and how can you find scholars and energies that truly overturn this system and lead the Muslims to success, just as, for example, the atheists proceeded, just as the Marxists proceeded, for example, Lenin overturned Russia. We are speaking in this world, not... for example, overturned Russia.
The student : The question should be specific so that they benefit, because there are brothers.

The questioner : One question: How does the youth become enlightened and get out of the current situation? And the current situation, the future is very, very dark... And I want to argue with you, if you allow me, meaning.

Another questioner : Meaning, there are actually two questions. The first question benefits in that what is... the newly invented matter that constitutes a religious innovation. This is the first part of the question.

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : And the second part, meaning, how should the scholars be so that the youth can follow their guidance? As for the first part...

The Shaykh : Yes, I say, in answering some of what became clear to us from the questions of the professor,The questioner : among that is his saying: that I said I mention the professorThe questioner : that I am not the one who said it, but rather it is the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) which came in many of his hadiths (peace be upon him) from a group of his noble Companions. And it is my general custom to include in the sermon of necessity that I say, as you heard, part of the sermon of necessity: . The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to preach with this speech in every Friday sermon to the end of the hadith. So this is the hadith of Jabir in "Sahih Muslim," and the hadith of al-'Arba' ibn Sari'ah, which we mentioned - also - in the context of my previous speech, and in it - also - it says that the Messenger (peace be upon him) said: . And I remember well that I said, and there is an addition in another hadith: , or . So I am not the one who said: , but rather it is the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), and our entire speech revolved around the obligation of submission to his saying and his ruling, and not limiting oneself only to the speech of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) alone. And so it is as if I want to make myself feel that the professor meant in his question what is the meaning of , this phrase that came in the hadiths of the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him). And in reality, this issue - also - takes a lecture or more than one lecture. But I answer the questioner's question with one hadith, which is the hadith of the Lady Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her). She said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said: , meaning in our religion . And the meaning of this hadith and the other hadiths, some of which we mentioned, is that newly invented matters are of two types: a type newly invented in the religion, and all of that is misguidance. And the other type is newly invented in worldly affairs. We do not say that this type is all guidance and correctness, but rather what of it does not contradict the Book and the Sunnah is from the matters of custom, and we are free in them. Especially since the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said in a known occasion . So whatever is newly invented in worldly affairs from the sciences to which the questioner referred, there is no harm at all for us to learn them and benefit from them in strengthening our entity and our power. But if the newly invented matters, even if they are worldly newly invented matters, contradict texts from the Book or the Sunnah, then at that time we do not say they are religious innovations; we say they are forbidden matters because they contradicted the Book and the Sunnah. As for the newly invented matters in the religion, all of them are misguidance, even if they seem reasonable and prescribed in the view of some people. And to that points Abdullah ibn 'Umar ibn al-Khattab in his saying: "Every religious innovation is misguidance, even if people see it as good." In summary: the newly invented matters prohibited in the previous hadith are only in the religion. So the religion is complete, as He (Mighty and Majestic) said, expressing His grace to His believing servants: .