Speaking about the shortcomings of some shaykhs in their understanding of the reality of the Islamic world

The student: That is, he observes that there is excess and deficiency, perhaps among those who studied and were raised by the shaykhs here. They work on details and only on the branches of Islamic jurisprudence, while being completely oblivious to the events happening around them, to their reality, and to the daily problems of the Ummah and the people. But these young men are not like those. It is not that their subject is not now; rather, they have turned in this direction and understood the reality of the matter from now on. In fact, you feel that they have been monitoring and looking at the reality of the Ummah, and looking at how the ship of life is moving in our reality and the reality of the rulers, and their distance from the Shari'ah of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He), even in their own lands. Therefore, you find them resorting to lectures that contain a type of exclusion and monitoring of things that encompass the reality they live in. For that reason, the attack on them from many shaykhs there has now become intense, because they do not want this line of thought and the alerting of people to their affairs, their conditions, and their reality, so that Muslims move from this sleep, this humiliation, and this degradation in which they are, to taking over the leadership of the world and the responsibility of carrying the banner of Islam.
Another student: The problem is more important than this. The problem is that these shaykhs and scholars who are on the rigid jurisprudential line, we say, have begun to feel that, as it is said, the rug...
Another student: ...is being pulled from under their feet. Yes.
Another student: So when we mention this situation, many people, when they lose their leadership, feel that they do not want this to turn into a rejection of good and a desire for it. They also have that.
Another student: From what Nasser al-'Umar spoke about, I remember in... that he says that people are working on issues while they are ignorant of great things happening around them. So he goes to him and says to him that shirk is spreading in Saudi Arabia, and among university students there is atheism and disbelief... There is something greater. He said, what did he say? Do you not know that they are smoking shisha? They are smoking shisha. So he considered smoking and shisha more dangerous than these who fall into atheism. So in a doctrinal matter, even in creed, they are oblivious to what is happening around them. They abhor shisha and smoking, and he does not know that the youth have fallen into atheism.
Another student: They are messing with something at the expense of other things.
Another student: Yes.
Another student: At the expense of many things.
Another student: No, he...
Another student: ...
Another student: ...on the shaykhs...

The Shaykh : ... .
The student: From here... the topic of the jurisprudence of reality and the jurisprudence of reality.
Another student: An attack with no justification, by Allah.
Another student: Yes.
Another student: I read in...
Another student: An attack with no reason, and our brother Ali was in Medina and fell under pressureThe Shaykh : from Rabia and the group, these people.
Another student : Yes, exactly.
Another student: And in his words there is some harshness toward others, so...
Another student: ...
Another student: By Allah, O Shaykh, I, the brother Ali, is now coming. I advised him, but he refuses, because Rabia called him in front of me. I advised brother Ali several times. The last time, especially after the book, I told him it was not supposed to be that, because it is an attack on these young men, a frenzied attack without the slightest justification.
Another student: When I read brother Ali's letter, I felt that he fell under the influence of the shaykhs of Medina.
Another student: They portrayed to him, meaning...
Another student: Of course, this is his work, which is not in accordance with the truth, no problem. But perhaps everyone feels something, but this feeling may be in accordance with the truth or not. This is not in accordance with the truth, and you may feel as you wish.
Another student: No problem, I, in any case, in some of the words are harsh... he kept going on about it all the time, O Shaykh.
Another student: My brother, this is your opinion.
The student : ... Correct.
Another student: And this, of course, perhaps this is our opinion too, but it came at a time when he was rejecting this opinion and adopting that other opinion.
The student: Yes, yes, I understood you completely.
Another student: No, also in a very important aspect, he, considering that those shaykhs there are the ones who say about themselves that they are the bearers of the banner of the Salafi da'wah, and they do not consider others as bearing the Salafi da'wah, so some people may understand that the meaning of that includes those who are in other lands, that it includes them in this speech regarding the topic of reality.

The Shaykh : What speech?
The student: Regarding what was mentioned above regarding the reality, meaning...
Another student: The shaykhs...
Another student: That is, the one who spoke in the letter on the jurisprudence of reality and the speech regarding what was... more than related to the da'wah, for example, in other than their lands, because there is indeed a lot of complaint there from the ignorance of students of knowledge in understanding the reality they live in.
Another student: You know, like our brothers there, if you tell them that, like those who claim or attribute themselves to the Ashraf, right? They consider the honor or the attribution to, for example, the Hashimites or al-Hasan and al-Husayn or such, that this attribution is exclusive to them, a blood, ethnic, and religious attribution.
Another student: Some of them speak.
Another student: This despite the distance that many of them may have from the religion itself, and they do not see for others the weight of this right that...
Another student: No, perhaps Allah has preferred you over us, look, it happened.
Another student: Our brothers there also, meaning...The Shaykh : Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him) was found in those lands, and they believed that this right is not for anyone else at all, and that no one should compete with them, not by their rank, not by their head, not by their mind, and not by their speech.
Another student: ...
Another student: And what, O our Shaykh?

The Shaykh : And it is so.
The student: One of them told me.

The Shaykh: You remind me, you remind me of a word by one of the professors or teachers who were in the Islamic University in the secondary section, his name is...The Shaykh : Abdullah, I forgot, Abdullah, what was it? It was his habit that I would turn from the university from my car and pass by the administration, in case some of the professors were waiting for the return of the university car for the professors. They were... taking it to Medina, so I used to perform this duty of cooperation, meaning I would pass by the administration, and some of them would get in, and sometimes even...The Shaykh : Ibn Baz, the important thing is this...The Shaykh : Abdullah got in my car and did not speak... I say here, the point is, I say, we used to think that tawhid (the oneness of Allah) was not known except in our lands, that there are no scholars who know tawhid like our scholars, and if the matter is wrong.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh: ...meaning, so this is a calamity, meaning a calamity, and this is proof that their information about the Islamic reality is not correct and sound; its scope is very narrow.