Discussion on the issue of entering parliaments: is it a means or a result? (Discussion)

The student : Can they not argue against us by saying that he says: that entering parliament is...

The Shaykh : I am not looking for parliament.
The student : It is the same issue.

The Shaykh : No, no, no, I am not looking for parliament.
The student : The same...

The Shaykh : My brother, may Allah reward you, you are as if your constant concern is searching for the results that come from the means, and I am the exact opposite of you. I am not fleeing from researching parliament... just as his predecessor did, this brother who is now in prison, what is his name?
The student : Ali Bilhaj.

The Shaykh : Ali Bilhaj. I say this is a very, very serious error. First, it will not bear fruit, and experience is the greatest proof, let alone the contradiction of the methodology of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), whom Allah addressed in the Qur'an: This is one of the issues where I wish to meet with my brother Abd al-Rahman, not to show him that you have accused your Muslim brother of something he did not do, but an announcement like this that political work and entering parliament, and that Islam cannot advance by sticking to purification and education, that it is necessary—this is a concrete error for us. We may be wrong, we may be right, all of this is possible because no one is infallible. But my aim from you now, and since you have been afflicted with me—and do not regret it, for I say I have been afflicted with you as well, so we are afflicted with one another—bear with me, there is no harm. I say the issue of parliament is a result, not a means.