Participation in the discussion on clarifying the methodology of the Tabligh Jama'ah
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I wanted to ask, but do you allow me to just make a note regarding these questions that have been raised?O Shaykh: Over the past ten years or so, by following what has been gathered in the United States and elsewhere, we have found much of what you mentioned regarding the issue of extremism and such things, and there are some matters involving certain visits and so on.
This is good, and praise be to Allah, and it is a good thing, and it is among the characteristics of Islam, but the thing they have taken as if they are the exclusive specialists in it for themselves, that is one point.
As for what happens in Pakistan and elsewhere in the annual gatherings, approximately two million common people attend this gathering, coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India.
and so on. And if some scholars from Najd or some preachers from Najd are present, you hear the word of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) raised on the microphones at full volume, but the nearby mosque has a grave, and there is a grave in the mosque next to it, and a grave there, and so on, and you do not hear any forbidding of evil at all around this, and they come to the lands of the world, and especially America for example, and we used to advise them and say: O brothers! The practices of shirk (associating partners with Allah) exist there, so why do you not go to them? This is one thing.
And also the issue of education, as you mentioned: They cannot listen to two words: the word of tawhid (the oneness of Allah), and the word of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah or Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab. We have seen this very often, and some of the brothers from the Saudis were present, along with some of the noble brothers from Qatar, and they cannot speak about anything from the books of the Sunnah and tawhid (the oneness of Allah) in the lessons, except in things specifically designated for them that are given to them. This is what I am conveying to you,Meaning: in trust to your excellence, so that you may be aware of what I have seen, and I am, if Allah wills, accountable to Allah for what I say, and may Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh: Yes, this is correct regarding some of the regions there, but as for the group here in the Kingdom, they do not approve of this at all.
This is good, and praise be to Allah, and it is a good thing, and it is among the characteristics of Islam, but the thing they have taken as if they are the exclusive specialists in it for themselves, that is one point.
As for what happens in Pakistan and elsewhere in the annual gatherings, approximately two million common people attend this gathering, coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India.
and so on. And if some scholars from Najd or some preachers from Najd are present, you hear the word of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) raised on the microphones at full volume, but the nearby mosque has a grave, and there is a grave in the mosque next to it, and a grave there, and so on, and you do not hear any forbidding of evil at all around this, and they come to the lands of the world, and especially America for example, and we used to advise them and say: O brothers! The practices of shirk (associating partners with Allah) exist there, so why do you not go to them? This is one thing.
And also the issue of education, as you mentioned: They cannot listen to two words: the word of tawhid (the oneness of Allah), and the word of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah or Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab. We have seen this very often, and some of the brothers from the Saudis were present, along with some of the noble brothers from Qatar, and they cannot speak about anything from the books of the Sunnah and tawhid (the oneness of Allah) in the lessons, except in things specifically designated for them that are given to them. This is what I am conveying to you,Meaning: in trust to your excellence, so that you may be aware of what I have seen, and I am, if Allah wills, accountable to Allah for what I say, and may Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh: Yes, this is correct regarding some of the regions there, but as for the group here in the Kingdom, they do not approve of this at all.