A Response to 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Khaliq.
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The questioner : We read in the pages of the magazine al-Furqan, which is published by the Islamic Heritage Revival Society in the State of Kuwait, and which speaks on behalf of the Salafi movement,
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : And they, as I know and have heard from them, and as you know, love you for the sake of Allah. In fact, you are their teacher
The Shaykh : May Allah reward them with good.
The questioner : And their Shaykh. They say this with great depth and certainty. But when we read the articles that our brother in Allah the Exalted and Majestic—before he became my brother-in-law, he is my brother in Allah the Exalted and Majestic, and I love him for the sake of Allah because he is a man who loves the Qur'an and has many issues on which he differs with some of his Shaykhs—and as they say, as you know, disagreement does not spoil the relationship,
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Perhaps this matter, these articles, reached you. These articles are titled "A Dialogue with Our Teacher and Shaykh"The Shaykh : Al-Albani. And I calledThe Shaykh : 'Abd al-Rahman on the phone from Jeddah. At the same time, after speaking with my Shaykh and teacherThe Shaykh : Muhammad Shuqara Abu Malik, I said to Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Khaliq: If a response to what you published in this dialogue in the magazine al-Furqan reaches you, if a response to it comes fromThe Shaykh : Muhammad Shuqara, are you prepared to publish it on the same pages of al-Furqan? He said: That would be desirable. It is left to him, so why would we not give freedom? Others, non-Muslims, give freedom in that regard. Then he said: But if a response comes to the memorandum that went out from me in the hands of some of the brothers and reached the hand of the brother Abu Malik, and I had written this memorandum not for publication, then if a response to it comes, we do not publish it. We do not publish this response to the memorandum in the magazine al-Furqan, because I did not write it for publication.
And this memorandum may have reached you, and you know more about it than I do, and Abu Malik knows it. If it has not reached you, Abu Malik will convey it to you. We love you for the sake of Allah.
Then we convey to you, with complete frankness, the supplications of your brother scholars in Saudi Arabia, by name, whom I met, and the generosity of the fatherThe Shaykh : Ibn Baz, who did not hesitate in many of his lectures when asked about the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)Al-Mustadrak lil-Hakim 48:335 I hope that this is from the category of the immediate glad tidings for the believer. We do not declare you pure before Allah, but we consider you to be among them. His EminenceThe Shaykh : Ibn Baz tells you that you are among the renewers of the religion in reviving the Sunnah of his Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and he loves you for the sake of Allah.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward him with good. And we ask Allah the Exalted and Majestic not to hold us accountable for what they say, and to make us better than what they imagine, and to forgive us what they do not know.
The questioner : The question now is from some of the brothers among the people of knowledge in the Kingdom who are waiting for your response to whatThe Shaykh : 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Khaliq wrote in his dialogue titled "A Dialogue with"The Shaykh : Al-Albani. Your response to this. Should we wait for your response? Because, as Islam taught us in terms of etiquette, we do not take a ruling or an opinion until we have heard the opinion of the other party who is connected to this subject?
The Shaykh : My answer to this question is that, in reality, I read the dialogue, and I did not find in myself any motivation to respond to our brother 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Khaliq, because the issue he addressed regarding my person is not a fundamental disagreement.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : And they, as I know and have heard from them, and as you know, love you for the sake of Allah. In fact, you are their teacher
The Shaykh : May Allah reward them with good.
The questioner : And their Shaykh. They say this with great depth and certainty. But when we read the articles that our brother in Allah the Exalted and Majestic—before he became my brother-in-law, he is my brother in Allah the Exalted and Majestic, and I love him for the sake of Allah because he is a man who loves the Qur'an and has many issues on which he differs with some of his Shaykhs—and as they say, as you know, disagreement does not spoil the relationship,
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Perhaps this matter, these articles, reached you. These articles are titled "A Dialogue with Our Teacher and Shaykh"The Shaykh : Al-Albani. And I calledThe Shaykh : 'Abd al-Rahman on the phone from Jeddah. At the same time, after speaking with my Shaykh and teacherThe Shaykh : Muhammad Shuqara Abu Malik, I said to Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Khaliq: If a response to what you published in this dialogue in the magazine al-Furqan reaches you, if a response to it comes fromThe Shaykh : Muhammad Shuqara, are you prepared to publish it on the same pages of al-Furqan? He said: That would be desirable. It is left to him, so why would we not give freedom? Others, non-Muslims, give freedom in that regard. Then he said: But if a response comes to the memorandum that went out from me in the hands of some of the brothers and reached the hand of the brother Abu Malik, and I had written this memorandum not for publication, then if a response to it comes, we do not publish it. We do not publish this response to the memorandum in the magazine al-Furqan, because I did not write it for publication.
And this memorandum may have reached you, and you know more about it than I do, and Abu Malik knows it. If it has not reached you, Abu Malik will convey it to you. We love you for the sake of Allah.
Then we convey to you, with complete frankness, the supplications of your brother scholars in Saudi Arabia, by name, whom I met, and the generosity of the fatherThe Shaykh : Ibn Baz, who did not hesitate in many of his lectures when asked about the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)
Indeed, Allah the Exalted sends, at the head of every hundred years, one who renews its religion.
إن الله تعالى يبعث على رأس كل مائة سنة من يجدد دينهاThe Shaykh : May Allah reward him with good. And we ask Allah the Exalted and Majestic not to hold us accountable for what they say, and to make us better than what they imagine, and to forgive us what they do not know.
The questioner : The question now is from some of the brothers among the people of knowledge in the Kingdom who are waiting for your response to whatThe Shaykh : 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Khaliq wrote in his dialogue titled "A Dialogue with"The Shaykh : Al-Albani. Your response to this. Should we wait for your response? Because, as Islam taught us in terms of etiquette, we do not take a ruling or an opinion until we have heard the opinion of the other party who is connected to this subject?
The Shaykh : My answer to this question is that, in reality, I read the dialogue, and I did not find in myself any motivation to respond to our brother 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Khaliq, because the issue he addressed regarding my person is not a fundamental disagreement.
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