A question about the Muslim's stance toward these Islamic sects?

The Shaykh : Please proceed.

The questioner : You need to... what Allah willed... the proliferation of groups, whether it be the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Tahrir, or the Salafis, and every group claims that it is the group upon the truth. And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says in His clear revelation: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful ... matters... that any group... with any person, and in a partnership they said... if it is true, or if the hadith is authentic, otherwise not, so I said... every group now is pleased with its own opinion, so the end of the hadith is that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) tells you: so leave it. And when you see every person of opinion pleased with his opinion, then stick to yourself and leave the common people. That is, he should isolate himself from these groups and... except by applying the Qur'an and the Sunnah, staying away from these groups, staying away from this thing.

The Shaykh : In my opinion, the answer to this question was presented in the previous speech when we mentioned that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) taught the Muslims everything and explained it to them clearly, when we mentioned the hadith of the seventy-three sects and mentioned that one sect among these sects is the saved sect.

The questioner : ... I will tell you, I... .

The Shaykh : Allow me, my brother, what did we say? We answered this question by bringing two famous sayings among the scholars. We said first: "And claims, unless you establish *** proofs for them, then their children are claimants" and we also said: "And every one claims a connection to Layla *** but Layla does not approve of that for them" Did you hear this speech or not? Are you repeating to me what I said just now? Therefore, I hope you pay attention to what we said just now. The claim: every person can claim, but the claim should be accompanied by evidence and proof. If you see a man who does not know how to pray and says, "I am from the saved sect," is it correct that he is from the saved sect? If you see a man who does not know what he should believe regarding Allah, the prophets, and the messengers? If you see a man, as we gave an example just now, who believes that a person can reach Allah without the path of Muhammad (peace be upon him), without the path of the Book and the Sunnah, and he says, "I am from the saved sect," the answer is obvious, is it not? No, he is not from the saved sect, but rather from the lost sect. Therefore, if you and others who hear and find on the face of the Islamic land today groups, and as we said just now, every one claims a connection to Layla, then you must take the evidence from every sect among these sects that testifies to the truth of its claim. It is not enough that you hear a claim and remain with the bewildered, bewildered, saying, "These say we are the saved sect, and these and these." You must seek, as Allah the Exalted said: So there is no salvation. We have affirmed this speech repeatedly and again and again. There is no salvation for the Muslim, not only for Muslims in general, but every person today must save himself before others. There is no salvation for him at all except by holding fast to the Book and the Sunnah. So now, when you point to some groups, do you hear from these groups that Allah said, the Messenger of Allah said, in every matter? In every big and small matter? Or do some of these groups tell you, "My brother, researching these matters is researching trifles, researching the husks, and we only want to research the kernels." Do you hear this speech from some Islamic groups or not? Good, is there husk in Islam? Islam is all kernel. And it is not permissible to describe it as such, because the word "husk" means belittling that which is called the husk. The Islam that came with him (may the prayers and blessings of Allah be upon him), from the recommended to the creed, all of this must be adopted by the Muslim completely, from its beginning to its end. And when we say this, we are not afraid, and it does not escape our attention that the Muslim cannot uphold Islam from its A to its Z, but he must acknowledge, first of all, in thought and creed, that everything that came with Islam is guidance and light, and that it is not permissible to divide Islam into kernel and husk, because this division contains a criticism of Islam in a way that these people who make Islam kernel and husk do not intend. And a second thing: even if we assume, and even if we concede for the sake of argument, that in Islam there is kernel and in Islam there is husk, we concede this for the sake of argument, but we say: if in Islam, with the kernel, there is this husk, then this husk has wisdom, and it is for the preservation of the kernel, as we see that in the world of creation in the fruits, fruits, and vegetables, and the like. All of them are from what Allah, Mighty and Majestic, made subservient for the children of man and honored the children of Adam with, and He made for all these benefits what? A husk. Without the husk, the kernel would have spoiled. So if we concede for the sake of argument that in Islam there is kernel and in Islam there is husk, we must know the kernel and we must know the husk, and we must believe in this and that, and we must believe that Allah did not neglect anything in the Book, and that everything that came with it is for our benefit, as he (may the prayers and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: So this which some call the husk is from what came with the Messenger (peace be upon him). I am mentioning to you now an authentic hadith by which we can argue, for the sake of argument, to the division of these people, and it is the hadith of that Bedouin who came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said, "Inform me about what Allah has made obligatory upon me." So he told him: five prayers in every day and night, and he mentioned to him only the fasting of Ramadan and the like of the known obligations from the five pillars. So what was the stance of this Bedouin? He asked and said, "Is there upon me, O Messenger of Allah, anything other than them?" He said: He said: "By Allah, O Messenger of Allah, I will not add to them nor subtract from them", I will not add to them nor subtract from them, meaning the obligations were sufficient for him and he did not want to do voluntary acts. So when the Messenger (peace be upon him) knew from him his sincerity and truthfulness in his eagerness and his consistency in what Allah made obligatory upon him, he said: .
So then, in Islam, instead of saying kernel and husks, we say there are obligations and there are voluntary acts. But these voluntary acts were not legislated in vain, correct? That man said, "I will not add to them nor subtract from them," because he was new to Islam. But the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) taught us and taught us well when he said: In another hadith: So this voluntary act which some call the husk, this has importance, because this hadith clarifies to us with a clear explanation that if the Muslim's obligations are deficient when he is reckoned, the first thing he will be reckoned for on the Day of Resurrection, our Lord will bestow upon His servant and order the angels to look to see if he has any voluntary acts. If they find them, they complete with this voluntary act the deficiency that occurred in the obligations of Allah, Mighty and Majestic.
The Shaykh : Therefore, it is not permissible for us to focus on some aspects of Islam while neglecting others. I will give you a practical example from our lives right now. There are many Islamic groups that do not care about growing their beards, do not care about imitating the disbelievers by wearing pants, jackets, and ties. What is this? These are superficial matters. We need to focus on the essence. They do not care about not lengthening the garment below the ankles, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said with this severe warning. They put all these types of matters into the category of what? Superficialities. This reminds me that one of the dangers of this call is the claim that Islam is essence and superficiality. Who will appoint himself to explain to people which of these issues, which number in the thousands, are part of the essence? "So be careful with them," and these may be even more, thousands upon thousands, multiplied over and over, that are part of the superficialities, so do not focus on them. Where is this person? Has he been created? He has not been created and will not be created. These are the ones who throw this word among people and make Islam essence and superficiality, leaving the youth confused because they cannot distinguish between what is essence and what is superficiality. After accepting this terminology, they cannot do so. So it was obligatory for those who innovated this harsh division of essence and shell to say, "Such and such and such and such are from the essence, so hold fast to them," and "Such and such and such and such are from the superficialities, so do not focus on them." But they will not be able to enumerate them. So, may Allah reward you. When you say "they all claim this," that is a correct statement, but we demand evidence. You see that you always care to know what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was upon regarding creed, morals, and worship. How did he pray? How did he perform Hajj? How did he fast? How did he teach women, men, and children, etc.? His state indicates his condition and suffices his condition for his statement that he is from the saved sect, because he held fast to the evidence that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) established in the hadith of the sects. The evidence of the saved sect is the Jama'ah, meaning that which the Prophet and his noble Companions were upon. Thus, the person is walking with insight. And if you take this rule and this criterion and try to apply it to the groups you are referring to, you will find that only a few, and very few, of them describe themselves as such. We have now spoken in general terms and given some examples related to the lives of people today who do not care about imitating the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). We find that some youth, if they grow their beards, they are beards in a style other than the style of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). They are in the style of a leader of theirs who once had a short beard, so they imitate him. And this leader, despite being a Muslim, had a tie, which is part of the attire of the English that they introduced in many Islamic countries. So they also dress in his attire. But the first master, the master of all people, the master of people on the Day of Resurrection, is Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). Where are those who imitate him? They do not exist except among these people who always call people to follow the Book and the Sunnah. Their methodology is: "Allah said, the Messenger of Allah said," and nothing else. Perhaps this is an answer to what you asked.