What is your opinion of those who say: The Shaykh Nasser attacks the Islamists and remains silent about the oppressive rulers; therefore, he is either dealing with them or is pleased with them?
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The questioner: I mean, regarding the question that follows, I would like to hear your opinion about those who deal with the existing regimes from among those attributed to knowledge or scholars, and some people say—meaning—they hover around the idea thatThe Shaykh : Nasser attacks the Islamists and is silent about the rulers; so, meaning, they might say he is dealing with them or is pleased with them, those who corrupt the earth and those who... and so on? And what is your opinion—also—meaning, now or in history, about those who carried the call of the Salaf and were of this type? Let us speak theoretically, meaning, without...
The Shaykh : There is no objection.
The questioner: Is this the question?
The Shaykh: Okay; let us address this question, meaning, in the past, and what remains of the answer to this question is sufficient, meaning; because these are sensitive points, I think.
The questioner: Not yet.
The Shaykh: Is there more?
The questioner: Yes, there is.
Another questioner: O Shaykh, shall we move to the house?
The Shaykh: Do you want us to answer you on this question and then move to the house?
The questioner: As you wish.
The Shaykh: Okay, my brother, regarding this question—also—it is attached to the previous answers. One of the wonders of matters is that the masses of people today call for closing the door of ijtihad (independent legal reasoning), yet they engage in ijtihad by derivation without the texts being in their hands, and if the texts were in their hands, they would not have done well in their ijtihad; so this is all derivation from the fact that they did not hear the voice of Al-Albani in what they imagine to be his support for the disbeliever rulers. I am a man of da'wah (calling others to Islam) and a man of knowledge, not a man of politics, frankly. So I do not raise my voice as others do and then stay in place. I work within my capacity; nevertheless, what I do travels throughout the entire Muslim world, and you, by the grace of Allah and then by your grace, are among the most knowledgeable people about that. So if we were to say to them—for example—I was imprisoned twice, they might be surprised; why was he imprisoned? This man supports the rulers. And if they knew that the reason for my imprisonment in one of the two imprisonments was a word I said—even my Lord knows, not people—that I support these rulers, they fabricated a word or a sermon or a lecture I delivered in the Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi Mosque in the camp.
Do you know the camp where Ali used to live?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: There is a mosque there called the Salah al-Din Mosque. No, by Allah, the Salah al-Din Mosque, I used to teach there, thenThe Shaykh : Kiftaro and his group prevented us from teaching, but there is the 'Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni Mosque.
So they fabricated that I delivered a lecture and encouraged people to jihad (struggle in the path of Allah) in the path of Allah. So the intelligence services summoned me, as is their known method, with a note. I attended, and there he was reading a long, wide paper: "You preached on such-and-such day and such-and-such date, and you said such-and-such and such-and-such." He reads sentence by sentence and asks me, "What is your opinion?" I say to him: "A lie." Like that, until he finished. And I was saying: "A lie, a lie, a lie, a lie." And then I remembered something. I said to him: "What is the date of the alleged sermon?" He gave me a Gregorian date. I said: "Convert it to the Arabic calendar." He converted it to the Arabic calendar. I said to him: "On this date, I was in Hama, staying at so-and-so's house, and you can know this through your own means and resources." And then I actually learned that they had asked, and their lie was revealed. So they sent and said to me: "What is your opinion of the rulers of today?" I said to him: "I do not know them." Of course, this goes on. They said to me: "What is your opinion of the ruling system? Do you support it?" I said: "No." He said: "Why?" I said to him: "Because it contradicts Islam." Immediately, in a Land Rover, they called it a head to prison, in the Citadel prison for about a month, in the Hasakah prison...
The Shaykh : There is no objection.
The questioner: Is this the question?
The Shaykh: Okay; let us address this question, meaning, in the past, and what remains of the answer to this question is sufficient, meaning; because these are sensitive points, I think.
The questioner: Not yet.
The Shaykh: Is there more?
The questioner: Yes, there is.
Another questioner: O Shaykh, shall we move to the house?
The Shaykh: Do you want us to answer you on this question and then move to the house?
The questioner: As you wish.
The Shaykh: Okay, my brother, regarding this question—also—it is attached to the previous answers. One of the wonders of matters is that the masses of people today call for closing the door of ijtihad (independent legal reasoning), yet they engage in ijtihad by derivation without the texts being in their hands, and if the texts were in their hands, they would not have done well in their ijtihad; so this is all derivation from the fact that they did not hear the voice of Al-Albani in what they imagine to be his support for the disbeliever rulers. I am a man of da'wah (calling others to Islam) and a man of knowledge, not a man of politics, frankly. So I do not raise my voice as others do and then stay in place. I work within my capacity; nevertheless, what I do travels throughout the entire Muslim world, and you, by the grace of Allah and then by your grace, are among the most knowledgeable people about that. So if we were to say to them—for example—I was imprisoned twice, they might be surprised; why was he imprisoned? This man supports the rulers. And if they knew that the reason for my imprisonment in one of the two imprisonments was a word I said—even my Lord knows, not people—that I support these rulers, they fabricated a word or a sermon or a lecture I delivered in the Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi Mosque in the camp.
Do you know the camp where Ali used to live?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: There is a mosque there called the Salah al-Din Mosque. No, by Allah, the Salah al-Din Mosque, I used to teach there, thenThe Shaykh : Kiftaro and his group prevented us from teaching, but there is the 'Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni Mosque.
So they fabricated that I delivered a lecture and encouraged people to jihad (struggle in the path of Allah) in the path of Allah. So the intelligence services summoned me, as is their known method, with a note. I attended, and there he was reading a long, wide paper: "You preached on such-and-such day and such-and-such date, and you said such-and-such and such-and-such." He reads sentence by sentence and asks me, "What is your opinion?" I say to him: "A lie." Like that, until he finished. And I was saying: "A lie, a lie, a lie, a lie." And then I remembered something. I said to him: "What is the date of the alleged sermon?" He gave me a Gregorian date. I said: "Convert it to the Arabic calendar." He converted it to the Arabic calendar. I said to him: "On this date, I was in Hama, staying at so-and-so's house, and you can know this through your own means and resources." And then I actually learned that they had asked, and their lie was revealed. So they sent and said to me: "What is your opinion of the rulers of today?" I said to him: "I do not know them." Of course, this goes on. They said to me: "What is your opinion of the ruling system? Do you support it?" I said: "No." He said: "Why?" I said to him: "Because it contradicts Islam." Immediately, in a Land Rover, they called it a head to prison, in the Citadel prison for about a month, in the Hasakah prison...
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