The ignorance of the people of innovation in their labeling of the people of the Sunnah as Wahhabis.

The Shaykh : So, every Muslim who wants to uplift the Muslims must, above all else, understand the correct tawhid (the oneness of Allah). Then we do not care what they say; they call us Wahhabis, they call us, for example, reactionaries; that is not what matters to us. Our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, taught us manners through our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when He said: So we know from the Qur'an and the Sunnah that when the Messenger (peace be upon him) was sent to the disbelievers, they said he was a sorcerer, a poet, and a liar. So whatever is said about us, who were found in this era and whom Allah has blessed with holding fast to the correct Islam, whatever words are said about us are far less severe than what was said about the Messenger (peace be upon him) in two respects: first, his person is higher and more noble than every created being in the sight of Allah, Mighty and Majestic; and second, what was said about him was that he was a liar and a sorcerer. What is said about us is that we are Wahhabis. What does Wahhabi mean? May Allah have mercy on the one who said:
"If following Ahmad is being a Wahhabi, *** Then I affirm that I am a Wahhabi."
Then, out of the ignorance of these people, they label us with the title of Wahhabis as a disparagement, but in reality, linguistically and in fact, it turns into praise for us. Because a Wahhabi is one who is attributed to Allah, for Allah is al-Wahhab (the Giver). If it were said that so-and-so is a wali (close friend of Allah), that would be praise, not disparagement; that is praise. But Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has veiled their hearts, so they do not feel what they are saying. They claim that the word Wahhabi is an attribution to the Najdi who came with the call to tawhid (the oneness of Allah) and the destruction of the graves built upon it, contrary to the Muhammadan Sunnah. They claim his name was 'Abd al-Wahhab, but the truth is his name was Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, as you all know. But if they were to realize that if they attributed us to Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, it would be a "Muhammadi" (attributed to Muhammad), which is a commendation, they did not know that they had fallen into a greater commendation than the first, because they attributed us to al-Wahhab, which is Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He. Therefore, that poet said in the present era, by analogy to the saying of Imam al-Shafi'i, I think this is what he said:
"If loving the family of Muhammad... what?"
"If loving the family of Muhammad is rejection (Rafidhi), *** Let the two weighty ones (thaqalayn) bear witness that I am a Rafidi."
"If loving the family of Muhammad is rejection (Rafidhi), *** Let the two weighty ones (thaqalayn) bear witness that I am a Rafidi."
On this same measure, that learned, intelligent man said:
"If following Ahmad is being a Wahhabi, *** Then I affirm that I am a Wahhabi."
So, it is not befitting for any Muslim whom Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has guided to following the truth to be affected by what may be said about him. If Allah said to His Prophet: Then what is said to us is nothing but what was said to the righteous ones before us. They are our role models, as you mentioned at the beginning of your question. The important thing is that tawhid (the oneness of Allah) is the foundation of Islam. But I must repeat what I said earlier: it is not befitting for the Muslims whom Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has guided to the sound methodology to stop at tawhid only in study and creed. Rather, they must concern themselves with studying Islam from all its aspects, and by that, their lives will be rectified when they apply action to knowledge, as He, Mighty and Majestic, said: .