The Ruling on Calling the Salafi Methodology the Methodology of Ruin
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What is the ruling on one who calls the Salafi methodology the methodology of ruin, may Allah protect us from that?
The ruling is that he is the one who is ruined. Do not be surprised, my brother, that people of good are given bad titles. Did you not know that the prophets were described as sorcerers and madmen? Say yes or no?The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Yes?! The correct: Yes.
Allah the Exalted said: [Surah al-Dhariyat: 52] Did this title harm the prophets?Answer: No.
The outcome is theirs, praise be to Allah. Do not be surprised that people of evil give people of good bad titles. Did you not know that those who deny the attributes of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, describe those who affirm them as anthropomorphists, as traditionalists, and as upstarts? It does not harm, yes.
If it were assumed that a Salafi had a deviation from the Salaf in his methodology, then we say: This is ruin, but we do not attribute it to the school of thought; because among our brothers who are on the Salafi school, or rather who desire the Salafi school, there are some who deviate from the Salaf in their actions, and they harm Islam and the people of Islam more than they benefit them. And perhaps this speaker saw a person who was repulsive in his actions and methodology among the Salafis and said: That the Salaf is ruin.
We do not know in reality,But if he intended the Salaf in truth, then we say: You are the one who is ruined, not the Salafi school of thought.
The ruling is that he is the one who is ruined. Do not be surprised, my brother, that people of good are given bad titles. Did you not know that the prophets were described as sorcerers and madmen? Say yes or no?The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: Yes?! The correct: Yes.
Allah the Exalted said:
Similarly, there came not to those before them any messenger except that they said, "A magician or a madman."
كَذَلِكَ مَا أَتَى الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ مِنْ رَسُولٍ إِلَّا قَالُوا سَاحِرٌ أَوْ مَجْنُونٌThe outcome is theirs, praise be to Allah. Do not be surprised that people of evil give people of good bad titles. Did you not know that those who deny the attributes of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, describe those who affirm them as anthropomorphists, as traditionalists, and as upstarts? It does not harm, yes.
If it were assumed that a Salafi had a deviation from the Salaf in his methodology, then we say: This is ruin, but we do not attribute it to the school of thought; because among our brothers who are on the Salafi school, or rather who desire the Salafi school, there are some who deviate from the Salaf in their actions, and they harm Islam and the people of Islam more than they benefit them. And perhaps this speaker saw a person who was repulsive in his actions and methodology among the Salafis and said: That the Salaf is ruin.
We do not know in reality,But if he intended the Salaf in truth, then we say: You are the one who is ruined, not the Salafi school of thought.