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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Does one who opposes the methodology of the Salaf among the contemporary parties join one of the perishing sects?

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The questioner : Clarify for us in the first answer, and you have clarified the matter that whoever does that has exited the circle of the Sunnah and the community and the circle of the saved sect to the circle of the perishing sects. Here, something arises in the mind. One might say: What are these people called? They have not adhered to the creed of the Khawarij, nor the Murji'ah, nor the Shi'ah, nor the Mu'tazilah, nor the Jahmiyyah. This question is a branch of a previous question: Have the seventy-two perishing sects of the early generations been fully counted and enumerated? Must people like these be classified within one of these sects, or is the matter of the seventy-two sects an open issue where, as new things emerge, they are added to the list until this number is reached?The Shaykh : As for whether they are attached to one of those sects, that is not a necessary condition. We consider that if a person exits Islam in practice regarding a specific detail, that does not make us declare him outside the circle of Islam absolutely. Rather, he has exited the ruling of Islam in that specific detail. Similarly, if we are speaking about the Salafi methodology and the Salafi call, and it is established that a person has exited the methodology of the righteous Salaf in a specific issue, we do not rule that he has exited the circle of the Salaf. Rather, we say that in this issue, he has undoubtedly opposed the Salaf. As we said earlier, he opposed Islam in an issue where he opposed Islam, but in both cases, we do not exclude him from the circle of Islam or the circle of the Salafis.
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