What is the difference between "Al-Siruriyyah" and "Al-Salafiyyah"?
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The questioner : Well, Shaykh, the brothers in Riyadh are talking about "Al-Siruriyyah"?
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : The brothers in Riyadh are talking about the name "Al-Siruriyyah," "the Al-Siruriyyah sect."
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : What is the difference between them and "Al-Salafiyyah"?
The Shaykh : I do not know them.
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh : I do not know them.
The questioner : Well; Shaykh, do you know "Waleed ibn Uthman al-Rashudi"? Yes?
The Shaykh : He visited me once or more.
The questioner : What do you see of his methodology?
The Shaykh : He is a student who listens to me; I do not know his methodology.
The questioner : Do you not hear anything about him?
The Shaykh : Ask about what benefits you; may Allah guide you.
The questioner: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh: And upon you peace.
The Shaykh : I know the man himself, perhaps for thirty years. He is from "the Muslim Brotherhood," and I know him now from his magazine which he calls "Al-Sunnah," but it contains nothing of the Sunnah; rather, he is well-versed in political news, and a bitter enemy who stirs the heart against Hafez al-Asad, against the followers of Egypt and Fahd, and almost all the Arab rulers. So there are many individuals in Saudi Arabia who are called Siruriyyah, but what is their methodology? What is their plan? Among those who are called Siruriyyah are "Safar al-Hawali"—you must have heard of him—and "Salman al-Oudah."
The questioner : We have not heard of them.
The Shaykh : "Nasser al-'Umair." I have not met the first two, but I have read a lot of their writings, or listened to their tapes. In terms of 'aqidah, they are Salafis, without doubt. In terms of methodology, their methodology is not yet clear to me: are they with us, or do they differ from us? We say "purification and education"; that is all. Perhaps now the callers to reform can do this and carry it out.
The questioner : "Nasser al-'Umair" came here to me, visited me, and with him was his book "Fiqh al-Waqi'." I drew his attention to many points, and he accepted many of them with quick, good acceptance, and promised to reconsider other points. I did not find any badness in him during the period he stayed at my place and slept for days with this "Waleed" whom you mentioned; he asked me about him.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : The brothers in Riyadh are talking about the name "Al-Siruriyyah," "the Al-Siruriyyah sect."
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : What is the difference between them and "Al-Salafiyyah"?
The Shaykh : I do not know them.
The questioner : Yes?
The Shaykh : I do not know them.
The questioner : Well; Shaykh, do you know "Waleed ibn Uthman al-Rashudi"? Yes?
The Shaykh : He visited me once or more.
The questioner : What do you see of his methodology?
The Shaykh : He is a student who listens to me; I do not know his methodology.
The questioner : Do you not hear anything about him?
The Shaykh : Ask about what benefits you; may Allah guide you.
The questioner: Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh: And upon you peace.
The Shaykh : I know the man himself, perhaps for thirty years. He is from "the Muslim Brotherhood," and I know him now from his magazine which he calls "Al-Sunnah," but it contains nothing of the Sunnah; rather, he is well-versed in political news, and a bitter enemy who stirs the heart against Hafez al-Asad, against the followers of Egypt and Fahd, and almost all the Arab rulers. So there are many individuals in Saudi Arabia who are called Siruriyyah, but what is their methodology? What is their plan? Among those who are called Siruriyyah are "Safar al-Hawali"—you must have heard of him—and "Salman al-Oudah."
The questioner : We have not heard of them.
The Shaykh : "Nasser al-'Umair." I have not met the first two, but I have read a lot of their writings, or listened to their tapes. In terms of 'aqidah, they are Salafis, without doubt. In terms of methodology, their methodology is not yet clear to me: are they with us, or do they differ from us? We say "purification and education"; that is all. Perhaps now the callers to reform can do this and carry it out.
The questioner : "Nasser al-'Umair" came here to me, visited me, and with him was his book "Fiqh al-Waqi'." I drew his attention to many points, and he accepted many of them with quick, good acceptance, and promised to reconsider other points. I did not find any badness in him during the period he stayed at my place and slept for days with this "Waleed" whom you mentioned; he asked me about him.
The questioner : Yes.
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