What is your opinion on rapprochement between the Sunnis and the Shi'ah?
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The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. And may prayers and peace be upon our master and our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
As for what follows: The honorable Shaykh (may Allah preserve him), some people see the combining of the Shi'ah and the people of the Sunnah, so what is your opinion on this?
The Shaykh : What I know is that al-Azhar tried its luck in this matter and did not succeed, because the Sunnah with them is a matter of flexibility and policy that we can call Shari'ah policy, unlike the Shi'ah, for they are among the most extreme people in their fanaticism for what they found their fathers and grandfathers upon.
And I say on many such occasions: We have heard, both in the past and recently, that many Christians and Buddhists, and perhaps a few individuals from the Jews, have embraced Islam, but we have not heard over the course of time and the long duration that a Shi'ite, let alone a Rafidi, has become a Sunni, because they are stamped with rigidity regarding their deviation and misguidance. And so the consequence of what they called rapprochement between the Sunnis and the Shi'ah, which has been going on for decades at al-Azhar, is...
As for what follows: The honorable Shaykh (may Allah preserve him), some people see the combining of the Shi'ah and the people of the Sunnah, so what is your opinion on this?
The Shaykh : What I know is that al-Azhar tried its luck in this matter and did not succeed, because the Sunnah with them is a matter of flexibility and policy that we can call Shari'ah policy, unlike the Shi'ah, for they are among the most extreme people in their fanaticism for what they found their fathers and grandfathers upon.
And I say on many such occasions: We have heard, both in the past and recently, that many Christians and Buddhists, and perhaps a few individuals from the Jews, have embraced Islam, but we have not heard over the course of time and the long duration that a Shi'ite, let alone a Rafidi, has become a Sunni, because they are stamped with rigidity regarding their deviation and misguidance. And so the consequence of what they called rapprochement between the Sunnis and the Shi'ah, which has been going on for decades at al-Azhar, is...