Do the deviations of the Muslim Brotherhood take them outside the circle of the people of the Sunnah and the community?
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The questioner : Likewise, my Shaykh, regarding the issue of political parties, I have also heard your answer on that in detail and clarity. There are some students of knowledge who say, for example, regarding the Muslim Brotherhood, that this group’s methodology is outside the Sunnah and the community, meaning that the methodology is from the misguided sects, whereas each individual is judged by what he deserves. I have heard from your words that their methodology also contains elements of the misguided sects and elements of the creed of the people of the Sunnah and the community, so in their methodology they are within the methodologies of the people of the Sunnah and the community despite their deviations, and as for each individual, each is judged by what he deserves. This is it.
The Shaykh : It is so, it is so, without a doubt.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : But I want to draw attention to something else as well: their deviation from knowledge in a specific subject or in a specific methodology does not mean judging them as deviant in all their methodologies.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : I mean, for example, you know well that most of the Muslim scholars, the Muslim scholars who follow a school of jurisprudence, most of them do not concern themselves with critiquing hadiths and distinguishing the authentic from the weak. This contradicts the methodology of the people of hadith.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : This contradicts the methodology of the people of the Sunnah; it contradicts explicit and authentic hadiths. So we are content with criticizing them and objecting to them from this angle, but that does not justify us in taking them out of the community.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : The community that testifies to the Book and the Sunnah and the methodology of the righteous predecessors. If one of them were to say, "No, not the methodology of the righteous predecessors," he would have exited the community. But the anomaly and deviation in some details, and this example is one of them, does not take them out of the circle.
The questioner : May Allah will it, may Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : And may He bless you.
The questioner : May Allah grant us and him well-being. I ask Allah to treat him with His gentleness, mercy, and well-being.
Abu Layla : The Shaykh : (May Allah preserve him) He went through days when he was spitting blood. When I consulted the doctor, Dr. Taysir Shadid, at our brother Khudraj’s farm—may Allah preserve him—praise be to Allah...
The Shaykh : They still, I mean, they thinkThe Shaykh : as they knew him as a young man, and they, I mean, they harm him without intending to.
The questioner : I ask Allah to reward you with good.
Abu Layla : And that I am always sincere. Whenever someone in this country or another country asks about you, and some brothers call from outside this country, I say, what Allah willed.The Shaykh : The older he gets, the more youthful he becomes. By Allah, my Shaykh, we always see youth in you, my Shaykh.
The questioner : By Allah, it is the freshness of the people of hadith that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned: Praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh : The news that reached us today... another news or other news, you know that they published that I died more than once.
The questioner : This has reached us, my Shaykh, more than once, yes.
The Shaykh : But the strange thing is a magazine published in Cyprus, something strange, they published the grave contrary to the Sunnah.
The questioner : They depicted the grave contrary to the Sunnah.
The Shaykh : New news that he said about a man, this man said, "A trustworthy man told me that our Salafi brothers in Iraq, recently, prayed the funeral prayer for Al-Albani as an absent person."
The questioner : They do not know the sayingThe Shaykh : of Al-Albani in this, incidentally. How do you view the prayer for the absent person in this form? In the issue, my Shaykh, praise be to Allah?
The questioner : The disputed issues among the youth. Your words, and I ask Allah to reward you with much good and to benefit Islam and the Muslims through you.
The Shaykh : It is so, it is so, without a doubt.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : But I want to draw attention to something else as well: their deviation from knowledge in a specific subject or in a specific methodology does not mean judging them as deviant in all their methodologies.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : I mean, for example, you know well that most of the Muslim scholars, the Muslim scholars who follow a school of jurisprudence, most of them do not concern themselves with critiquing hadiths and distinguishing the authentic from the weak. This contradicts the methodology of the people of hadith.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : This contradicts the methodology of the people of the Sunnah; it contradicts explicit and authentic hadiths. So we are content with criticizing them and objecting to them from this angle, but that does not justify us in taking them out of the community.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : The community that testifies to the Book and the Sunnah and the methodology of the righteous predecessors. If one of them were to say, "No, not the methodology of the righteous predecessors," he would have exited the community. But the anomaly and deviation in some details, and this example is one of them, does not take them out of the circle.
The questioner : May Allah will it, may Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : And may He bless you.
The questioner : May Allah grant us and him well-being. I ask Allah to treat him with His gentleness, mercy, and well-being.
Abu Layla : The Shaykh : (May Allah preserve him) He went through days when he was spitting blood. When I consulted the doctor, Dr. Taysir Shadid, at our brother Khudraj’s farm—may Allah preserve him—praise be to Allah...
The Shaykh : They still, I mean, they thinkThe Shaykh : as they knew him as a young man, and they, I mean, they harm him without intending to.
The questioner : I ask Allah to reward you with good.
Abu Layla : And that I am always sincere. Whenever someone in this country or another country asks about you, and some brothers call from outside this country, I say, what Allah willed.The Shaykh : The older he gets, the more youthful he becomes. By Allah, my Shaykh, we always see youth in you, my Shaykh.
The questioner : By Allah, it is the freshness of the people of hadith that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned:
May Allah bestow favor upon a man who hears my statement, understands it, and conveys it as he heard it.
نضر الله امرء سمع مقالتي فوعاها واداها كما سمعهاThe Shaykh : The news that reached us today... another news or other news, you know that they published that I died more than once.
The questioner : This has reached us, my Shaykh, more than once, yes.
The Shaykh : But the strange thing is a magazine published in Cyprus, something strange, they published the grave contrary to the Sunnah.
The questioner : They depicted the grave contrary to the Sunnah.
The Shaykh : New news that he said about a man, this man said, "A trustworthy man told me that our Salafi brothers in Iraq, recently, prayed the funeral prayer for Al-Albani as an absent person."
The questioner : They do not know the sayingThe Shaykh : of Al-Albani in this, incidentally. How do you view the prayer for the absent person in this form? In the issue, my Shaykh, praise be to Allah?
The questioner : The disputed issues among the youth. Your words, and I ask Allah to reward you with much good and to benefit Islam and the Muslims through you.
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