What is your opinion of the one who says that the Salafi call is a closed call, not open, and that it knows nothing except their saying, “Sunnah and bid'ah” only?

The questioner : What is your opinion of the one who says that the Salafi call is a closed call, not open, and that it knows nothing except their saying, “Sunnah and bid'ah” only, to the point that one of them said that the Salafi, when he makes dhikr, only says “Sunnah and bid'ah” without having any connection to reality?

The Shaykh : I think this question is understood from the previous answer, and the previous answer refutes it fundamentally and reveals that those who say such things are one of two people: either he is ignorant, or he is willfully ignorant of the reality of the Salafi call. As they say, the sweeter of the two is bitter. And we said earlier, without knowing what later question would come, that we call upon all Islamic groups to understand Islam correctly, in light of the Book and the Sunnah, and according to the methodology of the righteous Salaf. Do we say to them, “This is bid'ah and this is Sunnah,” or do we say to them, “Return to the understanding of the testimony of the word La ilaha illa Allah in light of the Book and the Sunnah”? This is a question whose invalidity is completely clear.