Do you see joining the ranks of the existing parties, given the errors among them, in light of the known agreement and sharing in certain matters?
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The questioner : Another question, which may be an extension of the first: What is your opinion regarding the existing Islamic parties? Do you see standing with them in the correct shared issues between us and them, despite the presence of deviations in two matters on their part? The first is a deviation in their methodologies, and the second is that they do not support those who support them, if they do not belong to their organizations. Does this standing with them in shared matters divert the call to Salafiyyah from its course, which is based on education and purification, or purification and education?
The Shaykh : As I said, the answer to this has been given previously. We do not join a coalition that contains disobedience and neglects the detailed engagement in calling to the Book and the Sunnah. However, we cooperate with them within the limits of the truth they possess. But we do not form parties or coalitions with them. These coalitions today do not escape from partisanship, and this is observed frequently and very frequently. In some coalitions or parties, we find that they select individuals in some countries without knowing their history or their history of connection to the Salafi call, nor knowing their conduct in life, their uprightness, and their diligence in worship as it came in the Book and the Sunnah. They are content with these individuals merely agreeing with them on the coalition, and then there is nothing after that except cooperation on this obscure basis, in which the cooperators do not know that it is obligatory for them to purify themselves first of all from everything that contradicts the Shari'ah. This is a very prominent sign when some parties turn to selecting those who agree with their coalition, even if there is no adherence to the Shari'ah of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) or to Islamic morals. So, if we remain as we are, calling, studying, and learning, and our inner state and our speech say:[Taha 20:114] and we do not trouble ourselves with such coalitions that will divert the one who previously called to the Book and the Sunnah, diverting him from this call due to engagement in political aspects and the individuals' eagerness to reach positions and centers, as happened in previous parties, much to our regret. Yes.
The Shaykh : As I said, the answer to this has been given previously. We do not join a coalition that contains disobedience and neglects the detailed engagement in calling to the Book and the Sunnah. However, we cooperate with them within the limits of the truth they possess. But we do not form parties or coalitions with them. These coalitions today do not escape from partisanship, and this is observed frequently and very frequently. In some coalitions or parties, we find that they select individuals in some countries without knowing their history or their history of connection to the Salafi call, nor knowing their conduct in life, their uprightness, and their diligence in worship as it came in the Book and the Sunnah. They are content with these individuals merely agreeing with them on the coalition, and then there is nothing after that except cooperation on this obscure basis, in which the cooperators do not know that it is obligatory for them to purify themselves first of all from everything that contradicts the Shari'ah. This is a very prominent sign when some parties turn to selecting those who agree with their coalition, even if there is no adherence to the Shari'ah of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) or to Islamic morals. So, if we remain as we are, calling, studying, and learning, and our inner state and our speech say:
My Lord, increase me in knowledge."
ربّ زدني علما
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