We know that the nations have pounced upon the Muslims, and the legal principle states

The questioner : We know that the nations have pounced upon the Muslims, and the legal principle states: What is not completed without

The Shaykh : without

The questioner : What is not completed without is obligatory. Is the study of religious innovation the matter required by this principle, or is there another path required of the Muslims, and what is it?

The Shaykh : Unfortunately, the questioner did not understand the danger of religious innovation. We have said that innovating in the religion is the innovator sharing with the Lord of the Worlds in the most specific of His attributes of lordship, which is the command. This is what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) denied in the previous polytheists when He said: This is from one aspect. From another aspect, we say to this questioner and those like him that confronting those who have pounced upon the Muslims is not done by keeping the old as it is, whether it is wrong or right, whether it is tawhid (the oneness of Allah) or shirk (associating partners with Allah). It is necessary, and perhaps the questioner was not present for our previous talk on how the Muslims can establish the state of Islam in their land, and that they cannot do so before they establish it in their hearts. From this establishment, which every individual must achieve in himself, comes the danger of this study that he heard. At that time, he will realize that the pouncing of the disbelievers and the many states in their misguidance and material power is not because the Muslims are truly Muslims, but because they turned away from their Shari'ah (Islamic sacred law) for two factors mentioned earlier: their misunderstanding of their religion and their poor application of what they understood.