And what is the call of Shaykh Al-Albani?

The Shaykh : Do you have an idea about the Salafi call? You haven’t touched on it, have you?

The questioner : A simple idea.

The Shaykh : Well, what is this simple idea? Can we understand it from you? If it is correct, we will say to you, “Well done, you have hit the mark, and we are upon that.” And if it is wrong, we will clarify to you where the error lies. What do you think? Can we direct this question?

The questioner : Yes, what I have come to know is that the madhhab calls people to leave...

The Shaykh : First, there is no madhhab.

The questioner : The group of hadith or...

The Shaykh : Because you are now trying to speak about the Salafi call. The first thing you said was what you have come to know about the madhhab. There is no madhhab. We are now fighting against following a madhhab; because this is the religion we keep talking about, which is religion by following a madhhab.

The questioner : Setting aside the madhhab...

The Shaykh : Well, you set aside this word if you hear it—(laughs)The Shaykh : (may Allah have mercy on him)—and please, go ahead.

The questioner : You call people to leave the madhahib, or to follow them, leaving them entirely.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : And the work is for every person to know the Shari'ah ruling and act upon it and apply it, even if he is not a scholar or a student of knowledge. Of course, I have come to know this from you now that this talk is not correct...

The Shaykh : Well, I want to correct it.
Al-Halabi : May Allah reward you with good. Precise, Doctor, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : No problem, it is so; I do not want what you understood.

The questioner : That is what I was understanding, and now what I have understood is the opposite. The second thing that I was upset about is that the call is for unifying the madhahib and coming out with one opinion so that the Ummah does not become divided. And I believe that if there had been a possibility for unifying them, the Imams who were contemporaries would not have differed; because it was, meaning...

The Shaykh : This is our merchandise returned to us.

The questioner : We are more lenient now, and their difference was a difference for the sake of the religion, not for the sake of desires, like what happens with most of our scholars. I do not say all of them, most of them for personal desires, perhaps. Before, they were not; it was for the sake of the religion, and for the sake of preserving the religion. So if there had been a possibility for unifying them, they would have been unified from their days. I hope you clarify it. May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : This is our merchandise returned to us. We say in our writings and lectures that unifying the madhahib is impossible. We agree on this point. If you have an issue regarding it, raise it?

The questioner : This is what I read in the book.Eid Abbasi .

The Shaykh : I tell you, Subhan Allah...

The questioner : As long as it is like that, that is fine, I agree.

The Shaykh : I tell you, this is our call. Do you have an issue regarding it?

The questioner: No.

The Shaykh : But we are now at a point in the call. Do you see? We need to move forward one step. We are now, and praise be to Allah, in agreement that it is impossible to gather the Muslims on one madhhab. This is impossible. I am not going to say a word to you that might be a bit harsh, but with the breadth of your heart, you need to bear it.