The Shaykh’s remarks on contemporary political parties.

Another questioner: There are two strange things in this... This hadith is important for the callers to Allah, and it contains a great and important clarification for the callers and those parties and groups that do not set before their eyes the calling to the Book and the Sunnah...

The Shaykh : Yes, indeed.

The questioner: And they claim that they want to establish the rule of Allah on earth.

The Shaykh: And if we want to be more precise in our expression, we do not say: those who do not set before their eyes the calling to the Book and the Sunnah; rather, they set before their eyes the calling to the Book and the elimination of the Sunnah.

The questioner: Meaning the correct Sunnah, of course.

The Shaykh: No, it is not correct either, stay withThe Shaykh : so you are guided, the elimination of the Sunnah.

The questioner: The elimination of the Sunnah means burdening us with what we cannot bear.

The Shaykh: I am not burdening you, I am only burdening myself, but I say the meaning of the hadith: It is not only in creed, jurisprudence, and knowledge, but in every matter of life, including setting out to establish the rule of Allah on earth. Just as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) began, we must begin. And the truth is that the efforts made to stand against these types of people, whom you mentioned, whether they are deviant Muslims or non-Muslims, there is no way for us to stand before them except with the knowledge that Allah revealed to the heart of Muhammad (peace be upon him), as you indicated in the details of your speech, because power and state are with them today. So we are not able to do anything except as the Exalted said: .
When will you take care of yourselves? When each of us performs his obligation in calling to his religion, to those around him, and then expands the circle as much as possible. Some of them cannot expand it and do not take it out of their homes, and some, as is not hidden from you. As for victory, it will not come through our organization and our definition, but it will be from the grace of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) upon us, because He is the One who will prepare for the Muslims the circumstance that enables them to move from being oppressed on earth to becoming masters, as was the case with the first of the Muslims. Therefore, I see it as a mistake to forget ourselves by reforming ourselves and focusing on those closest to us in the path of general da'wah, which others focus on to the point that it makes them forget themselves. We must work in what we are able to do, and after this work will follow some agreement, unity, and strength that we cannot now imagine, because of what surrounds us, we Muslims in the entire Islamic world, with enemies, some of whom are apparent and some are hidden. And the matter is as the Exalted said: So we must work in what we are able to do, and Allah does not burden a soul except with what it can bear, because establishing organizations and blocs has been tried by groups of Muslims or factions among them, and they did not succeed nor prosper, so they did not benefit from it, neither internally nor externally. And whoever sees the lesson in others, let him take heed.

The questioner: ... When they boycotted them and wrote the document and isolated them as a group, they were not individuals but a unit.

The Shaykh: You are looking at the result, but my intention is for us to talk about the introduction. Did they come into being like this?

The questioner : No, of course not.

The Shaykh: So how long did it take them to reach this point, noting the difference between their circumstances and ours? How long did it take them to reach the Pledge of Aqabah, for example?

The questioner: ... Three years.

The Shaykh: In any case, the important thing is that we note that every goal that a person or group wants to reach, it must have preliminaries. So you are now reminding us of the Messenger and his Companions.