Discussion of the Ahbash group in Lebanon and others, and clarification of their defective beliefs.

The Shaykh : They may meet in misleading the people of the Sunnah.

The questioner : I was told that al-Ghamari has a strong relationship with the Ahbash group?

The Shaykh : Strange.

The questioner : Yes, al-Ghamari is less evil than al-Kawthari, and yet he walks with him.

The Shaykh : What unites them is religious innovation.

The questioner : Yes, Sufism, the doctrine of the Jahmiyyah, and hostility toward the people of the Sunnah.

Another questioner : As for the Ahbash, O Shaykh, what unites them is also the actions of the Jewish Masons; there is Masonry among them. It is established that al-Habashi forbade fighting the Jews when they entered Lebanon, on the pretext that they could not resist the Jews. In the area where he resided, Burj Abi Haidar, it was never struck, and his men carried weapons, while others could not even carry a knife. They said that this was a karamah (a miracle granted to a righteous person) among the karamahs of...The Shaykh .

The Shaykh : What Allah willed.

The questioner : So we said, what Allah willed, a karamah of loyalty to the disbelievers.

The Shaykh : Is this speech recorded, Professor? Is it printed, or transmitted, or how?

The questioner : With their men, they are very careful not to reveal such facts. And Allah, even when the fatwa came down, it was distributed in leaflets, but I do not have one of them.

The Shaykh : In leaflets?

The questioner : Yes. Add to that that they permit uncovering and mixing, they permit it, and dancing, on the pretext that all of this is from minor sins, and a woman going down to the sea in a bikini is from minor sins.

Another questioner : Meaning that committing minor sins is considered lawful with them?

The questioner : It is lawful with them from the minor sins, and zina (unlawful sexual intercourse) with a disbeliever woman is permissible to spite her religion. They, O Shaykh, are callers to uncovering and callers to tabarruj (a woman's display of her adornment); they are pigs.

The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.

The questioner : As for their servitude.

Another questioner : To Iran.

The questioner : Other than Iran, to its sister Syria, it is very clear; all of them are from intelligence.

The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.

The questioner : When they killed a caller from the callers of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) among us, a caller of tawhid from the callers of 'aqidah (creed), may Allah fight them. Perhaps you have seen his book; he was a young man, 21 years old, Usamah al-Qassas. He wrote a book on the exaltation of Allah above His creation. I think it reached you?

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : But he is an active man, what Allah willed.

Another questioner : Killed?

The questioner : Killed. They killed him, but through the Syrian intelligence. Meaning, a man who corrupts the earth; if highway robbers kill, they are corrupters in the earth, but this one cuts off religion and cuts off 'aqidah and causes fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) among the Muslims. Add to that that it is established with certainty that he has a sorcerer.

The Shaykh : He has one?

The questioner : He has a Turkish sorcerer, and the evidence for that is that the one who walks in their path, O Shaykh, turns upside down; I do not know, he is bewitched, terrified, meaning it becomes strange. We need a fatwa to reassure the hearts, perhaps Allah will relieve them from this tyrant.

Another questioner : Do they pray behind him?

The questioner : If they declare the scholars disbelievers, we are even more so.

The Shaykh : Unfortunately, this is what the Shafi'is in Syria say: paper currency, in its various denominations, does not require zakah (the obligatory alms). "Your food was eaten by the righteous, the angels prayed for you, and the fasting ones broke their fast with you."