What is your personal view of these Islamic groups that have emerged in the Islamic world today?

The questioner : What is your personal view regarding the unification of these Islamic groups, given that we have heard many views and opinions on this subject?

The Shaykh : Yes, I have said this repeatedly. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, commanded the Messenger (peace be upon him) to call non-Muslims to a common word. What is the beginning of the verse, O 'Imad? , If this is the ruling of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, regarding the Messenger’s call to non-Muslims, is it not even more necessary that Muslims call one another to a common word? This is what the Qur'an explicitly states regarding Muslims.
Therefore, it is impossible to eliminate the existing disagreement among Islamic groups unless they unify their principle. Unifying the principle is undoubtedly based on this noble verse: There is no doubt that this answer is a general one that allows for much detail, and very much detail. However, if our people refuse to agree with us even on this common word, they are certainly the furthest from agreeing with us on the details that are built upon this common word. For example, from this detail: Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) is the model for all Muslims. If we assume that a group among them refuses to follow the Messenger (peace be upon him) in his method of calling, that means they have not met us on the previous verse, which we declared to be the common word among Muslims. Here begins the severe disagreement among Islamic groups. We know that some groups call Muslims to political party blocs and call Muslims, despite their fundamental or secondary differences, to join them as they are. They do not care to teach them or educate them in the correct Islam; rather, they only educate them in political party blocs. Undoubtedly, these people have contradicted not only the call of the Messenger (peace be upon him) but the call of all the messengers, from the day Allah, Mighty and Majestic, sent Adam (peace be upon him) to the last of the prophets, our Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him and his family). The concern of these messengers was to say to their people, in their actions and their words, "Worship Allah and avoid the taghut." This is the word of truth: "Worship Allah and avoid the taghut." You do not hear this from some of the parties today, because they have leaned entirely toward the political side. They claim that if the Muslim nation is educated from this small angle, the state of Islam will be established on earth. They are most wrong, because they have contradicted the call of Islam brought by the Messenger (peace be upon him). It is not hidden from anyone that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) remained in his people in Mecca for thirteen years, calling them to what? To worship Allah and to avoid the taghut. So how are we today, seeing Muslims in all lands of the world praying and fasting, but after they have believed in the truth of "La ilaha illa Allah," which is explained, even partially, by this verse to which the prophets called their people to worship Allah and avoid the taghut? The call to tawhid (the oneness of Allah) is a fundamental matter in the Islamic call, which all parties have neglected. We can say this without any exception, because it is not enough for us to call people as we call disbelievers, saying to them, "Say 'La ilaha illa Allah,' or else there will be fighting between us and them." But if these people say "La ilaha illa Allah," is our duty with them finished, or does the duty of education and teaching remain? O Christian, who used to believe before you submitted to Islam under compulsion, because you faced either death or submission to Islam, you used to believe in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Do you know what "La ilaha illa Allah" means? We must explain to him that this contradicts what he was upon before. Today, Muslims, except for those whom Allah has protected—and they are few—resemble in this regard many of those nations who are not Muslims, in that they have not understood the word "La ilaha illa Allah." Many of these Islamic groups, who do not pay the attention that the Messenger (peace be upon him) began with and established for that long, or rather short, period of thirteen years, say, "Until when are we occupied with tawhid? Until when?" We say, "Glory be to Allah, the Messenger of Allah was occupied in Mecca, and Mecca is a village; however many its people were, they were not in the millions at that time. But today, the Islamic world numbers in the millions, nine hundred million or more. So these people need years and long years to understand what 'La ilaha illa Allah' means." And it is strange and wondrous that we read the Qur'an and claim to reflect upon it, but these who claim to reflect upon it, when the matter comes to tawhid, they flee from it and do not stand by it. It is not that some of these people are like Noah (peace be upon him), about whom the Qur'an, and praise be to Allah, and not the authentic hadith, because it would become a subject of doubt and suspicion among these people that it is an ahad hadith by which a creed is not established. The Qur'an explicitly states that Noah (peace be upon him) remained among his people for a thousand years except fifty years.
We ask them: Did he remain among them legislating laws and explaining the obligations, duties, and recommended practices, as Islam came with an elaboration without parallel in all religions? Or did he remain among them calling them to worship Allah alone, having no partner? A very strange matter. We remain for twenty or thirty years, and our people find it excessive, saying, "Until when are you working on this call? Move a little, be activists." We are not activists, but at the same time, we are not among the stagnant. But what have these activists offered to Muslims with their call? Nothing at all. It is only movement in the military system, which we express in Syria as "stay in your place". It is movement, but a futile movement with no progress. It is almost half a century since one of these parties has offered anything to the Muslims. You take the largest among them to the smallest, and he does not care for the Sunnah, nor for tawhid. And some other parties, it is almost a century since they have passed, and what? Nothing in that except complete ignorance of the creeds that must be known generally among Muslims, and the creeds that must be fought generally among Muslims. And so, one of the consequences of that complete ignorance of the correct Islamic creeds and the deviant creeds from the correct ones was that a despicable, obscure person, with no fame or name except for one sudden rise, as Muslims were afflicted with some rulers who were obscure and we knew nothing about them, suddenly became, what did he become? The head of a state. And there is a person who emerged as a sign of Allah, they claimed. He calls to Islam and to the unification of Muslims, so some of those people rushed to him, knowing that he is a head in the Shi'ah, and among the Shi'ah are creeds that shake the pillars of Islam entirely. They almost, or did, and I do not know, because I cannot say something I have not known with certainty, they almost pledged allegiance to him. How did they pledge allegiance to him?

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : Ah, some of them pledged allegiance to him. How can you pledge allegiance to a man whose writings explicitly state that this Qur'an by which we profess our faith to Allah, in which he declared that the Qur'an in our hands is not a complete Qur'an, but only a part of the Qur'an that Allah revealed to the heart of Muhammad, and that what was revealed to the heart is the Mus'haf of Fatimah? And where is the Mus'haf of Fatimah? It was lost along with the distorted Torah and Gospel, the Mus'haf, and so on. If these people cared about the correct creed, they would also know the value of the Shi'ah and other Islamic sects, namely that they are the furthest from Islam. Suppose the Shi'ah won and established Islam; what would be the state of the Muslims? They would be forced to profess the religion of the Shi'ah. Therefore, it is incumbent upon us to first call Muslims to understand tawhid (the oneness of Allah) based on the Book and the Sunnah. This is something that no Islamic party, absolutely none, does, knowing that partisanship is prohibited in Islam. Rather, it is incumbent upon all of us to be one block, with one principle: the Book of Allah and the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah. I say this repeatedly and again and again. And not only this, but also according to the methodology of the Salaf (the earliest generations). This word is what unites the Muslims, and it is what will restore to them their past glory. There is no way to this glory except through this path

The questioner : Those are the party of Allah. This is everyone who cites it...

The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah. Those are your allies, your allies.
The party of Allah are those who hold fast to the Book of Allah and the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). The party of Allah is one and never multiplies.

The questioner : سؤال

The Shaykh : Please go ahead.