The Shaykh’s explanation that the aforementioned texts also indicate two important matters, the first being their comprehensiveness for everyone to whom they reach until the Day of Resurrection.
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The Shaykh : O my dear brothers, these aforementioned texts from the Book and the Sunnah, just as they indicate with decisive clarity the obligation to follow the Sunnah absolutely in everything the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) brought, and that whoever does not refer to them for judgment and submit to them is not a believer, I wish to draw your attention to the fact that they indicate, through their generality and absoluteness, two other important matters as well.
The first is that they encompass everyone to whom the call reaches until the Day of Resurrection. This is explicit in the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-An'am 6:19] and His saying: [Saba 34:28]. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) explained this by his saying in the hadith: Sahih al-Bukhari 438, agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim, and his saying: , narrated by Imam Muslim in his Sahih, and by Ibn Mando and others, as I have extracted it in al-Ahadith al-Sahihah, number 157.
The first is that they encompass everyone to whom the call reaches until the Day of Resurrection. This is explicit in the saying of Allah the Exalted:
