The Shaykh’s warning about something very important, namely that religious innovations are not among minor matters, and his refutation of the classification of innovations into good and bad.

The Shaykh : I do not wish to be long in this, but I am reminding you of a very important matter that the majority of Muslims have always overlooked, even some of our brothers who walk with us on the straight path and in avoiding worshipping Allah (Mighty and Majestic) with any religious innovation. It may be hidden from them that any religious innovation with which a Muslim worships his Lord (Mighty and Majestic) is not among minor matters. From this, we believe that the classification of religious innovation into forbidden and disliked—meaning disliked by way of recommendation—has no basis in the Islamic Shari'ah. How can it be, when it clearly contradicts the hadith that you always hear: So there is no religious innovation whose practitioner does not deserve the Fire. If that classification were correct, the answer would be that not every religious innovation makes its practitioner deserve to enter the Fire. Why? Because that classification makes a forbidden religious innovation the one that qualifies its practitioner for the Fire, and a religious innovation disliked by way of recommendation the one that does not qualify its practitioner for the Fire, but rather the first thing is to leave it and turn away from it. And the secret—and here is the point of my previous indication that many do not notice...