What is the response to those who say that Shaykh Al-Albani opens his books by attacking scholars and refuting them harshly, such as his refutation of al-Sabouni and Abu Ghuddah?
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The questioner: ... in an inquiry
The Shaykh: How do you prefer? Please, no problem.
The questioner: We naturally read the introductions to the books that follow you and benefit from them. Sometimes the envious ones who are against the Salafi da'wah say that your Shaykh always curses scholars in the introductions to his books, attacks them, and disparages them, and so on. So we tell them that they started with the evil, and the reward for evil is like it. They say, "To the extent possible, as much as the violence and harshness." What do we say to these people?
The Shaykh: We tell them, "Have you read the words of those people about Al-Albani?" They have not read them.
The questioner : Of course not.
The Shaykh: Yes, but we tell them this, and then you know that Al-Albani is short with them — the students laugh — Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, how unjust are people, how very unjust. Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) gives a simple and beautiful example. He says, "If you see two people, one chasing the other, running after him, wanting to catch him, and the one being chased is wearing a turban that is not his, while the chaser is not wearing a turban, such that the appearance suggests to the onlooker that the one being chased stole the turban from the head of the chaser, he says, 'Do not judge that this one being chased is the thief of the turban from this man.'"
The questioner : Allahu Akbar.
The Shaykh: Even though the appearance suggests this; why? He tells you there is a possibility that this turban is the right of this man being chased. That other man snatched it from him, so he was able, in one way or another, to take it and run with it — he laughs.The Shaykh : (may Allah have mercy on him).
The questioner: A word from Imam Ali
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner: In a word, I think it is attributed to Imam Ali, he says: "If someone comes to you holding his eye in his hand and says that so-and-so gouged out my eye, do not rule in his favor until you see the other one; perhaps he has two gouged-out eyes."
The Shaykh: How do you prefer? Please, no problem.
The questioner: We naturally read the introductions to the books that follow you and benefit from them. Sometimes the envious ones who are against the Salafi da'wah say that your Shaykh always curses scholars in the introductions to his books, attacks them, and disparages them, and so on. So we tell them that they started with the evil, and the reward for evil is like it. They say, "To the extent possible, as much as the violence and harshness." What do we say to these people?
The Shaykh: We tell them, "Have you read the words of those people about Al-Albani?" They have not read them.
The questioner : Of course not.
The Shaykh: Yes, but we tell them this, and then you know that Al-Albani is short with them — the students laugh — Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, how unjust are people, how very unjust. Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) gives a simple and beautiful example. He says, "If you see two people, one chasing the other, running after him, wanting to catch him, and the one being chased is wearing a turban that is not his, while the chaser is not wearing a turban, such that the appearance suggests to the onlooker that the one being chased stole the turban from the head of the chaser, he says, 'Do not judge that this one being chased is the thief of the turban from this man.'"
The questioner : Allahu Akbar.
The Shaykh: Even though the appearance suggests this; why? He tells you there is a possibility that this turban is the right of this man being chased. That other man snatched it from him, so he was able, in one way or another, to take it and run with it — he laughs.The Shaykh : (may Allah have mercy on him).
The questioner: A word from Imam Ali
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner: In a word, I think it is attributed to Imam Ali, he says: "If someone comes to you holding his eye in his hand and says that so-and-so gouged out my eye, do not rule in his favor until you see the other one; perhaps he has two gouged-out eyes."
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