The Shaykh’s discourse on purification and education, their necessity, and examples thereof.

The Shaykh : This detailed answer to this question and its like is about purification and education: purifying Islam from what has entered it, from what was not in it during the brightest and purest era, as Malik said: "The latter part of this Ummah will not be rectified except by what the first part was upon", the first Salaf, which includes the three generations about which the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke well in the authentic, indeed mass-transmitted hadith when he said: People narrate this hadith with the wording "the best of generations," but this has no basis in these authentic hadiths, even though the meaning is close; however, the narration with the wording I say that purification and education based on this purification are necessary. You all know a matter shared in knowledge by the scholar and the ignorant: there are many, very many hadiths scattered in the books, and we hear them on the tongues of preachers, orators, and teachers, which have no basis among the hadith scholars, and they fall under the prohibition of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in many hadiths against speaking of something whose authenticity we do not know from him (peace and blessings be upon him), such as his saying: The first liar is the one who fabricated and placed it... and the second liar is the one who spreads it, whether by narrating, preaching, or advising; this is the second liar. This is a widespread matter among Muslims today. How can Muslims be in this state, which is one of the ways they have diverged from what the righteous Salaf were upon? False hadiths have entered among the authentic hadiths, so truth has mixed with falsehood, and the tangled with the straight. Therefore, Muslims today do not live upon purified Islam. It is necessary to purify Islam first from such weak and fabricated hadiths. Then, who among you is unaware of the abundance of Isra'iliyyat (Jewish and Christian narratives) spread in the books of tafsir? A few hours ago, a question came to me about what is mentioned in some books of tafsir regarding the saying of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) concerning Yusuf and the wife of al-Aziz: Very ugly things are mentioned here and attributed to the sinless Prophet Yusuf (peace be upon him), whom Allah (Mighty and Majestic) protected and praised well in the same story. It is attributed to him what is not permissible to attribute to an ordinary Muslim, that he intended to... lift the garment. Imagine that his father Ya'qub (peace be upon him) bit his finger and then turned away from the wife of al-Aziz. There are things and things, including that he saw the wife of al-Aziz, when she attempted him, rush to an idol she worshipped besides Allah and throw a veil over it. He asked her why she did this? She said, "So that He would not see us." Then Yusuf (peace be upon him) remembered Allah, they claim, and he returned from what he had intended. All this is scattered in books of tafsir, and many of the masses read it as if it came as facts in books of tafsir. Add to that the story of the devil who stole the ring of Sulayman, which is mentioned in the tafsir of al-Razi, for example, and its like. These books must also be purified from such Isra'iliyyat. In addition, they must be purified from the interpretations that came from the later generations of some mufassirun, contrary to the interpretation of the righteous Salaf, which was narrated with chains in the reliable books of tafsir, such as the tafsir of Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, the hafiz, historian, and hadith scholar, who is among the imams of the Salaf in all these sciences, and also Imam Ibn Kathir al-Dimashqi in his famous tafsir, where he narrates in the interpretation of verses the reports that came from the righteous Salaf from the Companions and the Tabi'un. It is also necessary to purify books of tafsir from Isra'iliyyat and weak interpretations that contradict what our righteous Salaf were upon. All this falls under the category of purification. Then what do we say about what I mentioned earlier, that a type of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) was turned, due to ignorance, into a type of shirk (associating partners with Allah) and worship of other than Allah? Who among you does not know that there are graves in the lands of Muslims around which people circumambulate, just as the servants of Allah circumambulate the Holy House or the Noble Ka'bah? Who among you does not know that there are graves visited for vows made to them besides Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He), and visited for slaughter made to them besides Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He)? And the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: In confirmation of his (peace be upon him) statement, this is in response to the saying of Allah (the Exalted) in the Qur'an addressing him: meaning my sacrifice is for Allah, no partner has He What do we count? This is not a place for counting; the reference suffices for much of the expression. It is necessary to purify Islam and return it to what the first Salaf were upon, and with the phrase reported in the previous hadith, to what the community was upon, where the Messenger (peace be upon him) made holding to what the community was upon the means of safety so that we are not among the seventy-two sects, which... the saved sect. This is something related to purification. Then, this purification must be accompanied by education. From the softness of our nails, we must direct our children to this purified Islam, educate them upon it, and then the believers will rejoice in the victory of Allah. I am certain, decisively, that it is impossible for Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to honor the Muslims unless they return to their religion, as you heard in the authentic hadith, and as you also heard from the saying of Imam Malik: "The latter part of this Ummah will not be rectified except by what the first part was rectified by"