The Shaykh Ahmad Shakir said a harsh word about the Muslim Brotherhood; he said: "They are the Khawarij of the twentieth century"; what is your opinion of this statement?
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Al-Huwaini:The Shaykh : Ahmad Shakir, O our Shaykh, said a harsh word about the Brotherhood when they first appeared; he criticized them severely, and said: "They are the Khawarij of the twentieth century"; what is your opinion of this statement regarding him, and it is certainly attributed to Shaykh Ahmad Shakir.
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : ... .
Al-Hawini: What is your opinion of the saying ofThe Shaykh : Ahmad Shakir, and it has been established from him that he actually said this?
The Shaykh : By Allah, I cannot say whether he was wrong or right; because I was not a witness to it.
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The Shaykh : Perhaps you remember that I told you the story of my first meeting withThe Shaykh : Hamed.
Al-Huwaini:The Shaykh : Hamed?
The Shaykh : Hamed al-Taqi al-Faqi, did I not tell you the story, yes.
Al-Huwaini: Yes.
The Shaykh : And how the conversation came up about Syria and the call there and the Muslim Brotherhood, he said to me: The Khawarij?! So I denied this expression to him, he said: They are such and such. What, he mentioned to me, by Allah, incidents with Farouk and other than Farouk.
Al-Huwaini: Yes.
The Shaykh : I said to him: O Shaykh, you can speak about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt; because you know them, but it is injustice in a place =
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= but you speak about the Muslim Brotherhood in every place, including the Levant, so this is not permissible; because a bearer of a burden does not bear the burden of another, as you know, so this is my answer - also - regarding this question, meaning, what did Ahmad Shakir take against them until he threw at them this serious, strong accusation, I do not know, therefore I have no opinion.
Do we go down from here?
Another questioner : It seems the Brotherhood in Syria is better than the Brotherhood in Oman?
The Shaykh : Ah, this is possible.
The questioner : Yes, they have upbringing because they were raised by the hands of the Shaykhs.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : And in Islamic upbringing they are better than them.
Al-Hawini: Did you meetThe Shaykh : Hasan al-Banna?
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Al-Hawini: How, O our Shaykh,The Shaykh : Hasan al-Banna?
The Shaykh : Hasan al-Banna, I said a word about him in my time: he is, of course, not a scholar, but he actually has a style in attracting people to him, and it is enough for him as pride that he saved thousands of young people from the amusements, the cinemas, the coffee shops, and the like, and his call was generally, as he says, the Book and the Sunnah, but his group stopped at this word and did not take a single step forward with it, so they should have utilized this word as a sound methodology, even if he, in any case, did not go beyond his call.
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The Shaykh :The Shaykh : Hasan al-Banna, with this general call to the Book and the Sunnah, it seems that politics and diplomacy predominate over him, which may not agree with the Shari'ah and its rulings, I do not know if that was with his knowledge or not, and it is sufficient as an indication of this the declaration he made for his call when he said: "Our call is Salafi Sufi"; do you know this or are you a stranger to it?
Al-Hawini: I am a stranger to it.
The Shaykh : And in Egypt - also.
Al-Hawini: Because I was originally, since my birth, raised in the tents!
"Everyone laughs"
The Shaykh : So this is his call, and they take pride in it, but this indicates that they do not understand what Sufism is and what Salafism is, and that they do not know that the Salafi call is completely incompatible with the Sufi call, but he means by the Salafi call a general call without verification, without making people follow the Messenger in every big and small matter, and they understand Sufism to be softness of hearts and fear of the Knower of the Unseen and showing asceticism to people, and they understand that it contains the unity of existence, turning away from the Sunnah in conduct in life, and so on, so it is possible, within the limits of their narrow knowledge, that they can combine water and fire, the water which is the secret of life and the fire which is for destruction, so they combine on this basis Salafism and Sufism, so I, regarding Hasan al-Banna, magnify him from this angle only; where he was a cause for gathering the youth and awakening them from those corrupt societies like the cinemas and the cafes and so on, but it was upon the rest of them to complete his journey, because they should put the dots on the letters regarding the fact that the call is upon the Book and the Sunnah, and he explicitly stated something of this in his letters in some of "Risalat al-Ta'limat".
Another questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : ... .
Al-Hawini: What is your opinion of the saying ofThe Shaykh : Ahmad Shakir, and it has been established from him that he actually said this?
The Shaykh : By Allah, I cannot say whether he was wrong or right; because I was not a witness to it.
-- ... --
The Shaykh : Perhaps you remember that I told you the story of my first meeting withThe Shaykh : Hamed.
Al-Huwaini:The Shaykh : Hamed?
The Shaykh : Hamed al-Taqi al-Faqi, did I not tell you the story, yes.
Al-Huwaini: Yes.
The Shaykh : And how the conversation came up about Syria and the call there and the Muslim Brotherhood, he said to me: The Khawarij?! So I denied this expression to him, he said: They are such and such. What, he mentioned to me, by Allah, incidents with Farouk and other than Farouk.
Al-Huwaini: Yes.
The Shaykh : I said to him: O Shaykh, you can speak about the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt; because you know them, but it is injustice in a place =
-- ... -- .
= but you speak about the Muslim Brotherhood in every place, including the Levant, so this is not permissible; because a bearer of a burden does not bear the burden of another, as you know, so this is my answer - also - regarding this question, meaning, what did Ahmad Shakir take against them until he threw at them this serious, strong accusation, I do not know, therefore I have no opinion.
Do we go down from here?
Another questioner : It seems the Brotherhood in Syria is better than the Brotherhood in Oman?
The Shaykh : Ah, this is possible.
The questioner : Yes, they have upbringing because they were raised by the hands of the Shaykhs.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : And in Islamic upbringing they are better than them.
Al-Hawini: Did you meetThe Shaykh : Hasan al-Banna?
-- ... --
Al-Hawini: How, O our Shaykh,The Shaykh : Hasan al-Banna?
The Shaykh : Hasan al-Banna, I said a word about him in my time: he is, of course, not a scholar, but he actually has a style in attracting people to him, and it is enough for him as pride that he saved thousands of young people from the amusements, the cinemas, the coffee shops, and the like, and his call was generally, as he says, the Book and the Sunnah, but his group stopped at this word and did not take a single step forward with it, so they should have utilized this word as a sound methodology, even if he, in any case, did not go beyond his call.
-- ... -- .
The Shaykh :The Shaykh : Hasan al-Banna, with this general call to the Book and the Sunnah, it seems that politics and diplomacy predominate over him, which may not agree with the Shari'ah and its rulings, I do not know if that was with his knowledge or not, and it is sufficient as an indication of this the declaration he made for his call when he said: "Our call is Salafi Sufi"; do you know this or are you a stranger to it?
Al-Hawini: I am a stranger to it.
The Shaykh : And in Egypt - also.
Al-Hawini: Because I was originally, since my birth, raised in the tents!
"Everyone laughs"
The Shaykh : So this is his call, and they take pride in it, but this indicates that they do not understand what Sufism is and what Salafism is, and that they do not know that the Salafi call is completely incompatible with the Sufi call, but he means by the Salafi call a general call without verification, without making people follow the Messenger in every big and small matter, and they understand Sufism to be softness of hearts and fear of the Knower of the Unseen and showing asceticism to people, and they understand that it contains the unity of existence, turning away from the Sunnah in conduct in life, and so on, so it is possible, within the limits of their narrow knowledge, that they can combine water and fire, the water which is the secret of life and the fire which is for destruction, so they combine on this basis Salafism and Sufism, so I, regarding Hasan al-Banna, magnify him from this angle only; where he was a cause for gathering the youth and awakening them from those corrupt societies like the cinemas and the cafes and so on, but it was upon the rest of them to complete his journey, because they should put the dots on the letters regarding the fact that the call is upon the Book and the Sunnah, and he explicitly stated something of this in his letters in some of "Risalat al-Ta'limat".
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