The Shaykh’s argument that all innovations are misguidance, using the sermon of necessity, discussing it, and explaining its importance.

The Shaykh : ... And among what confirms this for you are the famous hadiths, with which we begin our lessons:
The best of speech is the speech of Allah, and the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). The worst of matters are their newly invented ones, and every newly invented matter is an innovation, and every innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Fire.
Among the wonders of matters we observe, which confirm to us the correctness of our methodology and the error of the methodology of others, is that you do not find a preacher among the preachers who maintains in his sermon this sermon, which is from the sermon of necessity that our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) always and forever maintained. Why? Because the simplest person would say to him: from your ascent to the pulpit to your exit from the prayer, it is all innovations and contrary to the guidance of the Messenger to whom you are calling. Therefore, Satan inspired them to be transgressors, not to be involved in yourselves. You rise to preach "The best of speech is the speech of Allah" and conclude with "Every misguidance is in the Fire," while you say "Innovation is good," and your Messenger says This is a contradiction. Therefore, He made their evil deeds attractive to them and erased from their Shari'ah this Sunnah which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was consistent in. Therefore, I have a complete material; as soon as I hear a preacher opening the sermon with this sermon, I say this is necessarily—I do not say he is a Salafi, but he has a Salafi tendency. Otherwise, it is not possible for anyone to say "Innovation is good" and come to preach to people and say This is from the hadiths indicating the opposite of what the later imitators, who are never mujtahids by their own admission, hold, namely that there is a good innovation. Then they dare, with their ignorance, rather their stupidity, and say: "My brother, this is a general text, but it is specified. 'Every innovation is misguidance and every misguidance is in the Fire'—they say it is specified."
First, we do not know in the words of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), which are from the concise words, such a generalization followed by a detail. This is the word "every," one of the most explicit words of generality and comprehensiveness: "Every innovation is misguidance." I always and forever say on this occasion, in the pattern of his saying (peace and blessings be upon him) And there are many general principles: So it is impossible for a person to come and say: "No, not everyone is from clay, except that his origin is from clay." So everyone who obeys the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) enters Paradise. These general principles do not accept detailing. They came with this general principle and nullified it, saying: "No, the beginning of the hadith is in its generality," while the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), as Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, the one who truly knows Allah, says—I do not know whether we should praise him when we describe him as the one who truly knows Allah, as others describe some of their great ones when they describe Ibn Taymiyyah as the one who truly knows Allah. We do not know whether we should blame him or praise him, but deeds are by intentions, and in truth he is one who knows the Book of Allah and the hadith of the Messenger of Allah. The Messenger of Allah says in every Friday sermon, let alone other sermons, he says in it establishing this rule. Then these people come with the simplest stupidity and say: "No, this is not general." And never does the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) say "Not every innovation is misguidance." Rather, he always confirms and confirms, repeating the general sentence in different occasions and circumstances. In terms of Arabic style, this is a confirmation that this speech, as you hear, does not accept interpretation, restriction, or specification at all.
So here he says This is a general principle. And there he says And "whoever" is also from the forms of generality and comprehensiveness. So the meaning of "whoever innovates" is: everyone who innovates in our religion what is not from it, it is rejected. The research in this is long, but I also remind you of a report from a noble Companion who was prominent among the Companions for his love of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and his love of following his Sunnah. He explained to us the first sentence, "Every innovation is misguidance," in a way that blocked the path for these innovators. They say "Every innovation is misguidance," so he comes and refutes them, as if Allah the Exalted revealed his insight. If we believed in the revelation that the Sufis and their followers speak of, we would say it was revealed to him, because people after them will say there is a good innovation and that the Messenger's saying "Every innovation is misguidance" is a general text that is specified. It was revealed to him at that time, so he answered them in advance, saying: "Every innovation is misguidance, even if people see it as good." Where do you go, you imitators? Did this man, one of the great Companions, err? Well, we accept it because we do not say in the infallibility of the Companions, but we do not reject the speech of one Companion, let alone if they are more, just because an imitator refutes him, even if he were a mujtahid, except with evidence. How, when there is one from the Companions, and he is Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman, who says: "Every act of worship that the Companions of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not worship with, do not worship with it." Count the acts of worship that people do today. Ask for them from the books of imitation, not from the books of the Sunnah. Ask for them from the books of imitation, and you will not find any mention of them.
Why? Because the same imitators, who are scholars by the sayings of their imams before they wrote down these innovations, and every day there is a new innovation, each with a new innovation. Why? Because the hole of innovations is never filled... and Satan is lying in wait, as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said in the authentic hadith when he drew for the people a straight line and said He drew the straight line and drew short lines on its two sides and said: "These lines are the paths of Satan, and on the head of each path is a Satan calling people to it."
So the devils of the jinn, let alone the devils of mankind, are still alive, acting on their instinct. Therefore, the happy one is the one who seeks protection and holds fast to the firm rope which has no break. What is it? The Book and the Sunnah. Perhaps in this amount, and although I feel, as I told you in... the topic of innovation in Islam needs several lectures. I hope in a future lesson, if Allah wills, I will follow up some of this with some, completing or at least finishing some of it... and addressing the doubts of the later people by which they cling to refute these pillars of evidence... regarding following in the religion.