What is the ruling on organized, collective activist work based on the methodology of the Salaf and based on planning?

The Shaykh : And beware of it, please go ahead.

The questioner : What is your opinion regarding collective activist work, if it is based on the organized methodology of the righteous Salaf and is based on planning?

The Shaykh : We do not believe in the type of organization known today; because this organization means something that prevents Muslims from fulfilling their religious duty. No Muslim doubts that "organization" is a general term. We can broaden it to include, for example, secret work, and we can narrow it to include organizing lessons of all kinds of lessons that Muslims benefit from, such as a lesson in tafsir one day, a lesson in hadith another day, a lesson in fiqh another day, a lesson in sermons another day, and a lesson in language, grammar, and morphology, and so on, which helps Muslims to understand their religion. This is undoubtedly an organization. And I do not think that this type of organization is what is intended when "organization" is mentioned in a question like the previous one. Rather, what is intended is something much, much broader than that. Among these things are partisanship and forming groups against other groups, where each group has a methodology and a system, and each group has a leader who must be obeyed and whose orders must be carried out. This is not of Islam at all, ever. Because it is from nothing. We are living in division, so when we want to establish a new party, that means we have added a new cause for widening the circle of division and disagreement among Muslims. Therefore, we do not support this type of organization at all. I draw attention to something that some people may not notice, especially if they are good in heart and intention.