The Shaykh Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Khaliq authored a book titled "The Legitimacy of Collective Action"

The questioner: His EminenceThe Shaykh : Returning to the beginning - once again -The Shaykh : Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Khaliq authored a book titled "The Legitimacy of Collective Action," and his concept in this book is the call to partisanship and to organization in the partisan sense, and he has gone further than that, as you know, by publishing the magazine al-Furqan, and he has increased his articles regarding the concept of this book, and he attributes this - also - to the Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him), where he excerpted some texts and interpreted them according to the concept he desires, and many of the youth have been deceived by what he reveals in this concept; so could you clarify that in a comprehensive manner, may Allah reward you?

The Shaykh : The truth is that I have not read all of his books, especially the recent ones, and I am unable to respond to them in detail, especially regarding what you mentioned that he quoted the words of Ibn Taymiyyah and interpreted them in a way that aligns with his call to partisanship, but I had read that he approves of partisanship and approves of groups, but I see that the matter is not this absolute, and my belief is that all Islamic groups must be in agreement on a common word between them, and as we always say, that they should all be upon the Book and upon the Sunnah and upon the methodology of the righteous Salaf, and that they should not split into sects and parties, because this is prohibited by explicit texts from the Book and the Sunnah, such as His saying - the Exalted - : , so we do not support partisanship, rather the party is one, and it is the party of the Book and the Sunnah, so the general approval of partisanship and grouping with differing methodologies and without gathering upon a general methodology that encompasses them all, and that ... that it should be Islam only with its many concepts, but rather that it should be with the clear and evident concept, as it came to us from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and as our righteous Salaf were upon, so the general statement of pure partisanship while every group has its methodology and its call, and it may differ from the call of the other group, and one is upon the truth and the other is upon the error; this is undoubtedly that everyone who calls for the approval of this partisanship is calling for what do I say? for making this division a prescribed matter, there may be a matter contrary to the Shari'ah, but the Muslim or Muslims know that it is contrary to the Shari'ah, so they try to get rid of it, like the issue - for example - of riba (usury or interest) and the like of the forbidden things, but to stamp legitimacy upon a matter that contradicts the Shari'ah, here lies the error, so if the brother Abd al-Rahman calls for such grouping and partisanship despite the differences between them and the conflicts between them - also - which result from these differences, then I do not approve of this.
And now something has become apparent to me; and that is the attempt - the disagreement that has appeared now between some of our brothers - that we have made our goal now to respond to a specific person, and this in reality, although it should be that the discussion in it is obligatory; but it should not be ... , because the man, even if his foot slipped in some points and the reason was mentioned earlier, has not gone beyond the Book and the Sunnah such that we consider him from the misguided sects, but rather he should be treated with gentleness, and we should try to guide him to what his foot slipped in in some matters, and this in reality does not happen merely by directing a question to someone like me - for example - whose mind is empty of exactly what he said, and of what he cited; this needs to present what he said to ... research on ... research or the carpet of research and discuss it, and I believe that such a gathering is not the place for such a discussion, but at the same time I see that if he has erred in some of what he wrote - and this I testify to, unfortunately - then whoever has a certain level of knowledge and culture and knowledge of the Islamic Shari'ah, it is obligatory upon him to respond to him in the best manner, perhaps Allah - Mighty and Majestic - will guide him and guide through him those who have deviated with him, this is what I have as an answer to such a question.