And what is the intended isolation (spatial, temporal, or from people)?
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The questioner : May Allah bless you, is this isolation an intellectual isolation, or a spatial one? Does it not include everyone?
The Shaykh : It is a partisan isolation.
The questioner : I mean, excuse me, by that, if I have in this place, for example this room, callers to the gates of Hell, or a people who guide by other than the guidance of the Prophet, am I commanded to isolate myself from them? I mean, if I entered upon these people and enjoining good and forbidding evil, or should I isolate myself even from their place?
The Shaykh : You must not be a partisan for them, otherwise you must enjoin good and forbid evil.
The questioner : So mixing with them is possible?
The Shaykh : Yes, there is no objection.
The questioner : Well, the end of the hadithSunan Ibn Majah 3979Sahih (Darussalam) and the context of the end of the hadith points to spatial isolation, or what is your opinion?
The Shaykh : No, it is not spatial isolation, but rather isolation from clustering and partisanship. It is your time.Abu Layla : ? Do not move.
Abu Layla : No, absolutely not.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : The intended meaning, may Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : My brother, the intended meaning is that one does not cluster with the group as long as there is no Caliph pledged to by the group of Muslims.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : So he remains walking upon the Shari'ah.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And of the Shari'ah is that he enjoins good and forbids evil, but this does not contradict that if he sees people who have deviated, he advises them and reminds them, but that he does not cluster with them and does not walk with them in their system, in their methodology, and so on. This is the intended meaning of the hadith of Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him), otherwise the command at the end is to bite
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : It is an allusion to not joining them in a partisan and clustered manner, and that is all.
The questioner : I mean, it does not imply spatial isolation.
The Shaykh : No, do you not have anything, Abu 'Abd al-Rahman?
The Shaykh : It is a partisan isolation.
The questioner : I mean, excuse me, by that, if I have in this place, for example this room, callers to the gates of Hell, or a people who guide by other than the guidance of the Prophet, am I commanded to isolate myself from them? I mean, if I entered upon these people and enjoining good and forbidding evil, or should I isolate myself even from their place?
The Shaykh : You must not be a partisan for them, otherwise you must enjoin good and forbid evil.
The questioner : So mixing with them is possible?
The Shaykh : Yes, there is no objection.
The questioner : Well, the end of the hadith
even if you bite onto the trunk of a tree
ولو أن تعضّ بأصل شجرةThe Shaykh : No, it is not spatial isolation, but rather isolation from clustering and partisanship. It is your time.Abu Layla : ? Do not move.
Abu Layla : No, absolutely not.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : The intended meaning, may Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : My brother, the intended meaning is that one does not cluster with the group as long as there is no Caliph pledged to by the group of Muslims.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : So he remains walking upon the Shari'ah.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And of the Shari'ah is that he enjoins good and forbids evil, but this does not contradict that if he sees people who have deviated, he advises them and reminds them, but that he does not cluster with them and does not walk with them in their system, in their methodology, and so on. This is the intended meaning of the hadith of Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him), otherwise the command at the end is to bite
Even if you bite the trunk of a tree
ولو أن تعضّ على جذع شجرةThe questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : It is an allusion to not joining them in a partisan and clustered manner, and that is all.
The questioner : I mean, it does not imply spatial isolation.
The Shaykh : No, do you not have anything, Abu 'Abd al-Rahman?
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