What is your opinion of those who respond to you, such as the author of: "Alerting the Muslim to Al-Albani's Transgression Against Sahih Muslim"?
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The questioner : The second question states: I have read many of your letters, but there are many responses to you, and the worst of them is "Alerting the Muslim to Al-Albani's Transgression Against Sahih Muslim." They did not respond to al-Daraqutni, but limited themselves to responding to you; so what is the motive for these responses from people like these? Is it hatred, or a victory for the Sunnah, as they claim?
The Shaykh : The answer is, in reality—and Allah knows best their intentions—but some of them appear to be, as the poet said:
"They envied the young man because they did not attain his effort, *** and all are his enemies and opponents.
Like the jealous wives of a beautiful woman, they said of her face, *** out of envy and tyranny, that it is ugly."
Some of them may have good intentions, but their situation is like mine when I authored "Al-Rawd al-Nadhir," meaning: they have not yet matured in this field. As for the author of "Alerting the Muslim"; this is, without a doubt, one of the hateful, envious people. I took charge of responding to him in some aspects of this book of his in some of the introductions to my books that are being printed recently, and this may include some of the last volumes of the "Series of Authentic or Weak Hadiths." The point is that this man, as I mentioned in my response to him, had sent me a letter. He is of Egyptian origin, and I do not know him. In this book, he states that when I went to Egypt, I visited him twice or more, and I gave many lectures there. He says that he benefited greatly from these lectures, and that these lectures were the cause of his connection to the Sunnah and his study of the books of the Sunnah, to the extent that some shaykhs accused him of being a Wahhabi and an Albani. This person wrote me this letter many years ago, and I kept the letter. Because I want Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He), when the time came to respond in some of the aforementioned introductions to this person, it required that I review some of the old letters I have, so I came across this letter, by coincidence. I said: Subhan Allah, how.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : Your patience is long-standing, O our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : How did our Lord make it easy for us to return to this book, and I was not thinking of it; I did not know that this author was that writer. So I mentioned a summary of this book that he had sent to me in the introduction of my response, to clarify that he is not a sincere advisor but rather an envious person. Then the cover was lifted afterwards when we learned that he is from the group ofThe Shaykh : Abdullah al-Ghamari and his brothers from the Moroccans. So at that time—meaning, as it is said—when the cause is known, the wonder ceases.
In any case, we ask Allah (Mighty and Majestic) for those among them who are not sincere that Allah purify their hearts, and that He make their work pure for the sake of knowledge and not as revenge for the self that commands evil. As for those among them who are sincere; I ask Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to increase them in knowledge regarding their concern for the Sunnah.
The Shaykh : The answer is, in reality—and Allah knows best their intentions—but some of them appear to be, as the poet said:
"They envied the young man because they did not attain his effort, *** and all are his enemies and opponents.
Like the jealous wives of a beautiful woman, they said of her face, *** out of envy and tyranny, that it is ugly."
Some of them may have good intentions, but their situation is like mine when I authored "Al-Rawd al-Nadhir," meaning: they have not yet matured in this field. As for the author of "Alerting the Muslim"; this is, without a doubt, one of the hateful, envious people. I took charge of responding to him in some aspects of this book of his in some of the introductions to my books that are being printed recently, and this may include some of the last volumes of the "Series of Authentic or Weak Hadiths." The point is that this man, as I mentioned in my response to him, had sent me a letter. He is of Egyptian origin, and I do not know him. In this book, he states that when I went to Egypt, I visited him twice or more, and I gave many lectures there. He says that he benefited greatly from these lectures, and that these lectures were the cause of his connection to the Sunnah and his study of the books of the Sunnah, to the extent that some shaykhs accused him of being a Wahhabi and an Albani. This person wrote me this letter many years ago, and I kept the letter. Because I want Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He), when the time came to respond in some of the aforementioned introductions to this person, it required that I review some of the old letters I have, so I came across this letter, by coincidence. I said: Subhan Allah, how.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : Your patience is long-standing, O our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : How did our Lord make it easy for us to return to this book, and I was not thinking of it; I did not know that this author was that writer. So I mentioned a summary of this book that he had sent to me in the introduction of my response, to clarify that he is not a sincere advisor but rather an envious person. Then the cover was lifted afterwards when we learned that he is from the group ofThe Shaykh : Abdullah al-Ghamari and his brothers from the Moroccans. So at that time—meaning, as it is said—when the cause is known, the wonder ceases.
In any case, we ask Allah (Mighty and Majestic) for those among them who are not sincere that Allah purify their hearts, and that He make their work pure for the sake of knowledge and not as revenge for the self that commands evil. As for those among them who are sincere; I ask Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to increase them in knowledge regarding their concern for the Sunnah.
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