To what extent has the Salafi call reached in terms of purification and education?
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The questioner : A response to the words of His EminenceThe Shaykh : I spoke and said: purification and education. The question is: to what extent has the Salafi call reached in terms of purification and education?
The Shaykh : The Salafi call is in the stage of purification.
The questioner : And education?
The Shaykh : And education is related to the individual Salafis who repent. As for collective education, its effects will appear when the call spreads and all these groups adopt it. At that time, its effects will manifest. As for now, its effects are in individuals, not in groups, because the groups do not adopt the Salafi call. Where does this noise you are hearing come from? From which group did it originate? Did it originate from those who adopt the Book and the Sunnah? The matter is not so. Rather, it originated from a group that does not profess the Book and the Sunnah, but rather fights the call of the Book and the Sunnah through quarreling and stirring up problems, even with voices like these. If they had any understanding of jurisprudence, even traditional jurisprudence, raising voices in mosques is not permissible. It is not permissible to raise voices in the middle of a mosque, so what about when these voices fill the area outside the mosque, fill the houses, fill the private or public lessons? Therefore, do not rush matters. Do not ask, "What is the effect of the Salafi call?" The effect of the Salafi call, from the scientific aspect, has now encompassed the entire world. But its educational effects do not appear until those groups that are concerned with establishing the Muslim state adopt it. And I return to say that there is wisdom in the advice of one of the Islamic callers who follows this caller but does not follow him in applying that advice. It is what he said: "Establish the state of Islam in your hearts, and it will be established for you on your land." One who lacks a thing, my brothers, cannot give it. Suppose now a modest house. In this house, there is a master, who is the husband, and a mistress, who is the wife, and there are children, who are the sons. Is it possible for this master and that mistress to manage the affairs of that house as Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) intended, if they do not know what Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) intended? The answer is no. This is a small, modest house. Now enlarge this example a bit: from a house to a neighborhood, from a neighborhood to a village, from a village to a city, from a city to a region, from a region to a great and very great state. Is it possible to manage it by people who do not know Islam and do not understand it correctly? The answer is obviously no. Therefore, knowledge of a thing comes before acting upon it, because action cannot be performed except after knowing how to perform it. And we do not know how to establish Islam except through the way of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Therefore, we say that the effects of the Salafi call are felt by the researcher with the touch of the hand. We give you examples. I am now almost eighty years old, and I have witnessed many lands, preachers, and teachers. For more than thirty years, you did not hear a preacher or an imam say, "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said so and so, narrated by al-Bukhari," or "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said so and so, narrated by Muslim," or "narrated by so-and-so," and so on. Some of them, whose culture is higher and more elevated, would say, "It is authentic from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said so and so." The books you used to see before, whether a book of tafsir, a book of hadith, or a book of fiqh, you did not see in these past thirty years anyone saying in a hadith, "narrated by so-and-so and so-and-so." These are very obvious matters for anyone who follows Islamic activity, or as they call it today, the Islamic awakening. You did not see before anyone who cared about the Islamic appearance, or who cared about frequenting mosques. We would enter the mosque and see only the elderly and the old men. Now, praise be to Allah, you find the mosques full of young people, and even small children. So this call has borne its fruit and its produce without doubt. But the matter still requires tremendous, coordinated efforts from all Islamic callers, if they were to follow the path of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) as I mentioned earlier. And that requires knowledge of the Sunnah, and they are heedless of the Sunnah and ignorant of it.
Someone else, my brother
The Shaykh : The Salafi call is in the stage of purification.
The questioner : And education?
The Shaykh : And education is related to the individual Salafis who repent. As for collective education, its effects will appear when the call spreads and all these groups adopt it. At that time, its effects will manifest. As for now, its effects are in individuals, not in groups, because the groups do not adopt the Salafi call. Where does this noise you are hearing come from? From which group did it originate? Did it originate from those who adopt the Book and the Sunnah? The matter is not so. Rather, it originated from a group that does not profess the Book and the Sunnah, but rather fights the call of the Book and the Sunnah through quarreling and stirring up problems, even with voices like these. If they had any understanding of jurisprudence, even traditional jurisprudence, raising voices in mosques is not permissible. It is not permissible to raise voices in the middle of a mosque, so what about when these voices fill the area outside the mosque, fill the houses, fill the private or public lessons? Therefore, do not rush matters. Do not ask, "What is the effect of the Salafi call?" The effect of the Salafi call, from the scientific aspect, has now encompassed the entire world. But its educational effects do not appear until those groups that are concerned with establishing the Muslim state adopt it. And I return to say that there is wisdom in the advice of one of the Islamic callers who follows this caller but does not follow him in applying that advice. It is what he said: "Establish the state of Islam in your hearts, and it will be established for you on your land." One who lacks a thing, my brothers, cannot give it. Suppose now a modest house. In this house, there is a master, who is the husband, and a mistress, who is the wife, and there are children, who are the sons. Is it possible for this master and that mistress to manage the affairs of that house as Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) intended, if they do not know what Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) intended? The answer is no. This is a small, modest house. Now enlarge this example a bit: from a house to a neighborhood, from a neighborhood to a village, from a village to a city, from a city to a region, from a region to a great and very great state. Is it possible to manage it by people who do not know Islam and do not understand it correctly? The answer is obviously no. Therefore, knowledge of a thing comes before acting upon it, because action cannot be performed except after knowing how to perform it. And we do not know how to establish Islam except through the way of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Therefore, we say that the effects of the Salafi call are felt by the researcher with the touch of the hand. We give you examples. I am now almost eighty years old, and I have witnessed many lands, preachers, and teachers. For more than thirty years, you did not hear a preacher or an imam say, "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said so and so, narrated by al-Bukhari," or "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said so and so, narrated by Muslim," or "narrated by so-and-so," and so on. Some of them, whose culture is higher and more elevated, would say, "It is authentic from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said so and so." The books you used to see before, whether a book of tafsir, a book of hadith, or a book of fiqh, you did not see in these past thirty years anyone saying in a hadith, "narrated by so-and-so and so-and-so." These are very obvious matters for anyone who follows Islamic activity, or as they call it today, the Islamic awakening. You did not see before anyone who cared about the Islamic appearance, or who cared about frequenting mosques. We would enter the mosque and see only the elderly and the old men. Now, praise be to Allah, you find the mosques full of young people, and even small children. So this call has borne its fruit and its produce without doubt. But the matter still requires tremendous, coordinated efforts from all Islamic callers, if they were to follow the path of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) as I mentioned earlier. And that requires knowledge of the Sunnah, and they are heedless of the Sunnah and ignorant of it.
Someone else, my brother
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