Every Muslim seeks the establishment of the Islamic state, but the path has been obscured for many of the people who seek this noble objective

The questioner: His EminenceThe Shaykh : , As for the one who calls for such confusion and deviations, it is due to the lack of clarity in the methodology, especially since every Muslim seeks the establishment of the Islamic state, but the path has been obscured for many of the people who seek this noble objective; so if Your Eminence would clarify the correct methodology for establishing this state and the concepts that should be firmly established in the minds of people regarding such a matter?

The Shaykh: I believe that the answer to this has already been given - may Allah bless you - when we said: It is obligatory to have "purification and education," and that purification requires the efforts of scholars who are united and cooperating in all parts of the Islamic world, and then that this be followed by, or rather accompanied by, the education of Muslims to work for this purified Islam. The starting point is from here. I mentioned this meaning just now, and we have mentioned it constantly and repeatedly for more than twenty years. This is our call: purification and education are obligatory. The other groups have no purification and no education except for this Islam which has no second identity; each one is according to what they inherited from their methodology or their fathers and grandfathers. So the Muslims will not stand unless upon these two pillars, in which no Muslim can argue about their correctness. We find it difficult regarding what we say; I have a very long research, and I do not believe the time now allows for repeating many of the lectures we used to deliver on such an occasion. We narrate - for example - his saying - may the prayers and blessings of Allah be upon him - in affirming "purification and education." We narrate two hadiths:
The first hadith: His saying - may the prayers and blessings of Allah be upon him and his family - : , so I used to say: This hadith clarified in it that the Messenger - may the prayers and blessings of Allah be upon him - stated that if the Muslims do such and such, he mentioned examples of forbidden things, then Allah will inflict upon them a humiliation that He will not remove from them until they return to their religion. He mentioned the disease and the cure, and what concerns us here now is the cure; which is returning to the religion. And the religion today, as you know well, has several concepts, not only in the legal rulings, but also in the creed, and even in the foundation of the creed; which is tawhid (the oneness of Allah). So there are still millions of Muslims living with us, praying with us, fasting, and performing Hajj, who believe that the meaning of "La ilaha illa Allah" is: There is no Lord but Allah! They do not understand tawhid al-uluhiyyah (oneness of worship) or tawhid al-uluhiyyah, let alone understand tawhid al-asma' wa al-sifat (oneness of the names and attributes). So returning to the religion is only by the concept that existed when Allah - Mighty and Majestic - revealed it to His Prophet - may the prayers and blessings of Allah be upon him - : .
And how beautiful is what came in "Sahih al-Bukhari" that a man from the Jewish rabbis came to 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, the Commander of the Faithful, and said: O Commander of the Faithful, or he said: O 'Umar, there is a verse in the Book of Allah - meaning the Noble Qur'an - if it had been revealed to us - the Jews - we would have made the day of its revelation a festival. He said: What is it? And he mentioned this verse. So he said: It was indeed revealed on a day of festival and on 'Arafah; meaning: a Friday. So this Jewish rabbi knew the greatness of Islam by the fact that Allah favored them and completed the blessing by completing this religion for them. Therefore, the Imam of the City of Migration, Malik ibn Anas - may Allah have mercy on him - said: "Whoever innovates in Islam an innovation which he considers good, has claimed that Muhammad - may the prayers and blessings of Allah be upon him - betrayed the message. Read the saying of Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He - and he mentioned the verse: , then he followed that with his saying: "And the end of this Ummah will not be rectified except by what rectified its beginning; so whatever was not a religion at that time will not be a religion today." So the reality now is the opposite of what Malik intended completely; whatever was not a religion at that time has become a religion today, whatever was not part of the creed has become a creed today, whatever was not rulings has become rulings today, whatever was not conduct and morals has become conduct and morals today. This indicates that it is obligatory to purify this religion from what has entered into it, the details of which you know. This purification, if thousands of specialized Muslim scholars were to agree on it, each in his field, this one in its exegesis, this one in its hadith, this one in its jurisprudence, this one in its language, and so on; because all these matters are from the collective obligations; if some of them perform it, the right falls off the rest.
So is there now a group that we feel has performed this collective obligation by the scholars of the Muslims? I believe that there is a great and very great deficiency in this. This is what we mean by purification; because the Messenger - peace be upon him - said: If you do such and such and such, the cure is returning to the religion. Which religion is this? It is the religion mentioned in the Noble Qur'an. So it is obligatory that we care for returning the Muslims in their understanding of the religion to what it was understood as in the time of the Companions and the Tabi'un and those who follow them. This hadith which refers to the fact that it is obligatory to purify this religion from what was foreign to it, and there is no ability of the religion and the existence of most of the scholars of the Muslims today who say with the good innovation and interpret the hadiths other than their interpretation, and they interpret them other than their interpretation; like the hadith: ; they interpreted it in a way that a non-Arab would be ashamed to say: its meaning is whoever innovates in Islam a good innovation. And this - also - we delivered a long word about it.
I return to the following hadith; which is his saying - may the prayers and blessings of Allah be upon him - : . They said: And from how few we were at that time, O Messenger of Allah? He said: . They said: And what is the weakness? He said: , this hadith requires us to care for education based on the purified Islam. From that is that we do not let anyone in Allah's cause blame us, that we do not fear anyone except Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He - , and that we be as he said - peace be upon him - : ; so are the Muslims now, with their groupings, have they realized this one hadith which is like one body? Unfortunately, neither the purification is established as it should, nor the education - also - is realized as it should; rather they are individuals of scattered groups but there is no bond between them based on this Book and the Sunnah and the methodology of the righteous Salaf.
And I believe that every group that is not established on this foundation is failed and there is no way out, and history since more than half a century of time is the greatest proof of that, and that there are some groups who cheer for the establishment of the Muslim state since more than sixty seventy years and they are on the modern system in some Arab countries: "Stay in your place" !! In movement but no progress !! The reason:
Sa'd brought it, and Sa'd was wrapped up *** This is not how, O Sa'd, you bring in the camels
Other than that?