Is it true that you look upon the call of the Muslim Brotherhood with hostility, and that you frequently engage in disparaging and criticizing the founder of the group, Hasan al-Banna (may Allah have mercy on him)?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : The first question, if you would be so kind, is it true that you look upon the call of the Muslim Brotherhood with hostility? And that you constantly engage in disparaging and criticizing the founder of this group, Hasan al-Banna (may Allah have mercy on him), and the scholar Sayyid Qutb (may Allah have mercy on him)? If you would be so kind?
The Shaykh : All praise is due to Allah; we praise Him, seek His help, and seek His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the evils of our own souls and from the badness of our deeds. Whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide, and whomsoever He leaves to misguide, none can guide. And I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah alone, with no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger. As for what follows, I praise Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, that we are callers to unity and not callers to division.
The Shaykh : All praise is due to Allah; we praise Him, seek His help, and seek His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the evils of our own souls and from the badness of our deeds. Whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide, and whomsoever He leaves to misguide, none can guide. And I bear witness that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah alone, with no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger. As for what follows, I praise Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, that we are callers to unity and not callers to division.