The Shaykh’s opening with the Khutbat al-Hajah, an explanation of its virtue, the danger of religious innovation in the religion of Allah, and the meaning of the saying of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) therein

The Shaykh : ... and we seek refuge in Allah from the evils of our own souls and from the badness of our deeds. Whoever Allah guides, no one can misguide, and whoever He misguides, no one can guide. And I bear witness that there is no god but Allah alone, with no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger. , As for what follows, the best of speech is the speech of Allah, and the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). The worst of matters are their newly invented ones, and every newly invented matter is a religious innovation, every religious innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Fire. And after that:
My word in this night is to speak about some of the established texts in the Sunnah and some of the reports narrated from the earliest of this Ummah, which some people, who have no knowledge of the Book of Allah or the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), nor of what our righteous predecessors (may Allah be pleased with them all) were upon, consider to be...
They consider those texts to be doubts that arise in their minds regarding some of the texts in the Book and the Sunnah that are decisive in their indication that every religious innovation is misguidance. This is the general principle that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) established in more than one hadith. This Khutbah that we have presented before this word is sufficient for us in that matter, following the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who taught his Companions to present it before their sermons, teachings, and admonitions. The scholars of jurisprudence named it the Khutbat al-Hajah. In it is that blessed phrase, namely his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to repeat this general principle to the people on various occasions, the most important of which was the Friday sermon. He (peace and blessings be upon him) would open the Friday sermon and others with this Khutbah, which you know is called the Khutbat al-Hajah. He (peace and blessings be upon him) would repeat it and deliver it before his sermons (peace be upon him). And yet, it was a reminder from him to his Ummah: those who began with his speech and listened to his hadiths following his example, and then those who came after him (peace and blessings be upon him) and did not hear his speech directly, but it was transmitted by the later generations from the earlier ones through the authentic chains of narration known to the Imams of the Sunnah. He (peace and blessings be upon him) used to repeat in his sermons, as we mentioned, this phrase , which in its indications and its comprehensive scope for every religious innovation that occurred after the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and his (peace and blessings be upon him) description of it as misguidance . Then the hadiths came one after another, supporting one another and taking hold of one another, all revolving around this general principle .