What are the schools of the people of Islam in creed?
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The Shaykh : However, there are schools in creed, two schools, or rather three. But I said two because the two schools do not object to the third school, which is the true school. In creed, there are three schools: the School of the People of Hadith, the Maturidiyyah, and the Asha'irah. These two schools, the Maturidiyyah and the Asha'irah, are those who intend by the term "the people of the Sunnah and the community" both in the past and the present. But some of our Salafi brothers, among the callers to Allah, are now trying to apply this name, "the people of the Sunnah and the community," to the followers of the righteous Salaf. This will take them a long, very long time until they shift the common custom. For example, when the scholars of al-Azhar say "the people of the Sunnah and the community," they intend nothing but the Maturidiyyah and the Asha'irah. These people differ from the first school, the School of the Hadith and the school of the saved sect, in every way of difference, unlike the Khawarij and the Ibadis who exist today in Oman, in Algeria, in some Algerian regions, and in Morocco, and so on. One cannot belong to any of these parties except to one school, which represents the saved sect that the Messenger (peace be upon him) described as being upon what he (peace and blessings be upon him) and his noble Companions were upon. So this person you are referring to, he must know this hidden reality that the Messenger (peace be upon him) informed us about regarding the division indicated by the noble verse mentioned earlier, and which the Messenger (peace be upon him) detailed in his hadiths, especially in the hadith of the sects, which is his saying: Sunan Ibn Majah 3993Sahih (Darussalam) This poor man does not know the saved sect, and therefore he says: It is not permissible for you to say about yourself, "I am a Salafi," because you are certifying your own righteousness! If he does not call himself a Salafi, he says, "I am a Muslim," and he may say, "I am a believer," and both are certifying one's own righteousness, without doubt. Our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) says: [Al-Qalam 68:35-36] The Muslim distinguishes himself from the disbeliever by saying, "My religion is Islam." If he says, "My religion is Islam," what is the abbreviation of these two words? Muslim. So if he says, "My religion is Islam," it is as if he said, "I am a Muslim." Are you a Muslim geographically in certifying souls, or are you truly a Muslim? In the time of the Messenger (peace be upon him), there were Muslims who were hypocrites; you know this reality. They returned to hypocrisy in the clear text of the Noble Qur'an, but they used to say, "I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah," and they would pray with the Muslims and fast, but they did not believe with their hearts. So if Islam is not accompanied by faith in the heart with this Islam, his Islam does not benefit him at all. This is well known in the Noble Qur'an. Therefore, such a Muslim who advises with that false advice must know where he stands among these perishing sects, in which there is no saved sect except the one that is upon what the Messenger (peace be upon him) and his noble Companions were upon. Therefore, we will be with these people by saying, "The Book and the Sunnah, and upon the methodology of the righteous Salaf," and we ask Allah (Mighty and Majestic) to keep us alive upon that and to let us die upon that. Anything else?
and my nation will split into seventy-two, all of which will be in Hell apart from one
وستفترق أمتي على ثلاث وسبعين فرقة، كلها في النار إلا واحدة(35) Then will We treat the Muslims like the criminals? (36) What is [the matter] with you? How do you judge?
أَفَنَجْعَلُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ كَالْمُجْرِمِينَ * مَا لَكُمْ كَيْفَ تَحْكُمُونَ
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