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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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You know the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to Hudhayfah and his command to him to stick to the congregation of the Muslims and their imam, and today the congregations have multiplied until the matter became confused.

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The questioner : You know the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to Hudhayfah and his command to him to stick to the congregation of the Muslims and their imam, and today the congregations have multiplied until the matter became confused for the student of knowledge. Which congregation is the one intended in our time? We ask for clarification of the name of the congregation that calls to the Book and the Sunnah in reality, so that one may be with their congregation?

The Shaykh : This question seems to be a repetition of what we discussed yesterday, but the reality is that I am more convinced by the recurrence of these questions that there is a severe disagreement in the air. This disagreement is what ... the questions and necessitates their repetition and the repetition of the answer to them.
We mentioned yesterday that the saved sect is one single sect, and we also mentioned its sign by the text of the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), and that it is the one that is upon what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) was upon, and ... now, and I mention a hadith, which is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange, so glad tidings to the strangers. إن الإسلام بدأ غريبا وسيعود غريبا فطوبى للغرباء
Sunan Ibn Majah 3987Hasan (Darussalam)
They said, O Messenger of Allah, who are these strangers? He said:
they will set right the corruptions caused in my sunna by people after my death هم الذين يصلحون ما أفسد الناس من سنتي من بعدي
Mishkat al-Masabih 170Isnād Da'īf Jiddan (Zubair `Aliza'i)
So the questioner must look at these many congregations that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) foretold about in the hadith of Hudhayfah. So which is the congregation that calls to adhering to the Book and the Sunnah in speech and action? I say in speech and action because we explained to you yesterday that all the sects, however far they are from the Book and the Sunnah, say, "We call to the Book and the Sunnah." Therefore, we are not satisfied with mere speech, because speech that contradicts action is also one of the characteristics of the hypocrites. And Allah the Mighty and Majestic says in the Noble Qur'an:
(2) O you who have believed, why do you say what you do not do? (3) Great is hatred in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not do. يا أيها الذين آمنوا لم تقولون ما لا تفعلون كبر مقتا عند الله أن تقولوا ما لا تفعلون
[As-Saf 61:2-3]
So all the congregations, in terms of their speech, all of them say, "The Book and the Sunnah are our principle and our slogan, and our call is based on that." But did action accompany this call, this speech? I think that if you remember this fact, it will become clear to you that not all the congregations are there, and they are not upon the Book and the Sunnah except in terms of speech. Many of them, you do not need to mix with them to see their distance from the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), but rather their distance from the correct creed that came in the Book and the Sunnah. In fact, if you look at them, their appearance indicates that they are not of the Book and the Sunnah in any way. Many of them take the Islamic appearances lightly and do not give them any weight at all. This is from the Book and the Sunnah, and we all know that it is from the Sunnah the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
Trim the mustache and let the beard grow, and differ from the Jews and the Christians احفوا الشارب وأعفوا اللحة وخالفوا اليهود والنصارى
And from his hadiths (peace be upon him) that even many of those who adhere to the Sunnah have abandoned is his saying (peace be upon him):
The Jews and the Christians do not dye (their hair), so differ from them. إن اليهود والنصارى لا يصبغون شعورهم فخالفوهم
Sunan Ibn Majah 3621Sahih (Darussalam)


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