Is there a necessary connection between the condemned partisanship and organized collective work?
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The questioner : Is there a necessary connection between the condemned partisanship and organized collective work in the calling to Allah?
The Shaykh : Organized collective work in the calling to Allah may be a party, or it may not be a party. Personally, and with me are undoubtedly noble people, we see no objection to dividing the work among the individuals of the Muslims, and even among their groups. So each group performs its obligation in the manner I mentioned earlier regarding the reformers. Just as we do not imagine hostility between those reformers, but rather the broad circle of Islam unites them, despite what may be in each of these individuals of deficiency, as I hinted at earlier, so I say regarding the groups that organize their affairs to carry out the calling to Islam. If these groups do not have mutual hatred, turning away from one another, and hostility that reaches the point where an individual in one group takes a partisan stance against the other group with falsehood, these groups must exist. However, they must be bound by a principle and a unified methodology. This is absolutely necessary. For this reason, I sometimes state explicitly that I do not deny that there may be a group among the Muslims called the Muslim Brotherhood, or a group called the Tabligh, or a group called the Party of Liberation. I deny these groups today, but I do not deny that such groups may exist if they agree with the call of truth, which is following the Book and the Sunnah, with whom they were and wherever they were. Since these groups—let us call them now as they call themselves, these parties—
The Shaykh : Organized collective work in the calling to Allah may be a party, or it may not be a party. Personally, and with me are undoubtedly noble people, we see no objection to dividing the work among the individuals of the Muslims, and even among their groups. So each group performs its obligation in the manner I mentioned earlier regarding the reformers. Just as we do not imagine hostility between those reformers, but rather the broad circle of Islam unites them, despite what may be in each of these individuals of deficiency, as I hinted at earlier, so I say regarding the groups that organize their affairs to carry out the calling to Islam. If these groups do not have mutual hatred, turning away from one another, and hostility that reaches the point where an individual in one group takes a partisan stance against the other group with falsehood, these groups must exist. However, they must be bound by a principle and a unified methodology. This is absolutely necessary. For this reason, I sometimes state explicitly that I do not deny that there may be a group among the Muslims called the Muslim Brotherhood, or a group called the Tabligh, or a group called the Party of Liberation. I deny these groups today, but I do not deny that such groups may exist if they agree with the call of truth, which is following the Book and the Sunnah, with whom they were and wherever they were. Since these groups—let us call them now as they call themselves, these parties—
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