A brother from Iraq speaking about the presence of new ideas on the Iraqi scene.
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The questioner : Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings.
The Shaykh : ... please.
The questioner : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and in Him we seek assistance.
My dear Shaykh, I am from Iraq, and we are currently facing a wave of modern ideas that are not free from being the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood, but in a new framework and with new formulations. People may be deceived by them, even if they are Salafi in belief and methodology. In fact, many have been deceived, including some whom we think well of and consider to be on the right path, and Allah is their accountant. The hostility began from the state, and then from these people, the Muslim Brotherhood... regarding tawhid... the Salafis, with clear and obvious hostility through various means... or in matters where... he joined the clubs... he fell into [the veneration of] the awliya (close friends of Allah) and the righteous, and [the veneration of] the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and so on. Of course, there are many people who may listen to them, and some of them are on pulpits, and most of them are like this; because those who are upon the truth have been removed from the pulpits and from da'wah (calling others to Islam), and they have been restricted. I think you know this, my Shaykh. And some of them... with them, either out of diplomacy or out of fear, we do not know. What should we do in this phase? How do we confront them? If we confront them face to face, this is not free from the fact that we will be exposed to many things that could lead to destruction. It is possible that they have cooperation with the state or with... meaning, Allah the Exalted knows best, or that they make those who oppose them or clarify the truth to them... in certain circles, that they are attacking him, attacking his honor, attacking his... meaning, they want to make him appear as not being sound, not being on the straight path, in order to diminish his status. We say—Allah the Exalted knows best—we are proceeding with teaching the correct Islamic knowledge, through which we clarify to people the soundness of the methodology. It is the youth or the people who distinguish between this and that...
The Shaykh : ... please.
The questioner : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and in Him we seek assistance.
My dear Shaykh, I am from Iraq, and we are currently facing a wave of modern ideas that are not free from being the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood, but in a new framework and with new formulations. People may be deceived by them, even if they are Salafi in belief and methodology. In fact, many have been deceived, including some whom we think well of and consider to be on the right path, and Allah is their accountant. The hostility began from the state, and then from these people, the Muslim Brotherhood... regarding tawhid... the Salafis, with clear and obvious hostility through various means... or in matters where... he joined the clubs... he fell into [the veneration of] the awliya (close friends of Allah) and the righteous, and [the veneration of] the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and so on. Of course, there are many people who may listen to them, and some of them are on pulpits, and most of them are like this; because those who are upon the truth have been removed from the pulpits and from da'wah (calling others to Islam), and they have been restricted. I think you know this, my Shaykh. And some of them... with them, either out of diplomacy or out of fear, we do not know. What should we do in this phase? How do we confront them? If we confront them face to face, this is not free from the fact that we will be exposed to many things that could lead to destruction. It is possible that they have cooperation with the state or with... meaning, Allah the Exalted knows best, or that they make those who oppose them or clarify the truth to them... in certain circles, that they are attacking him, attacking his honor, attacking his... meaning, they want to make him appear as not being sound, not being on the straight path, in order to diminish his status. We say—Allah the Exalted knows best—we are proceeding with teaching the correct Islamic knowledge, through which we clarify to people the soundness of the methodology. It is the youth or the people who distinguish between this and that...
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