What is your opinion regarding these Islamic groups?
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The questioner : We ask Allah to accept from him.
The students: Amen.
The Shaykh : May Allah grant success in that, if Allah wills.
The questioner : So, Shaykh, this topic of the examination of hearts has occupied me greatly when I saw it in the reality of the callers and the students of knowledge. In my opinion, the matter mostly returns to issues we touched upon recently, such as the love of fame and the love of reputation. These are matters of the heart, and we see their effects as they manifest.
The Shaykh : Yes, I do.
The questioner : Therefore, those who separate the belief of the heart and the action of the heart from the outward action are liars and misguided. They say, "There is faith in the heart, but you find no trace of it in the outward appearance." This is not correct. What is in the heart manifests itself.
The Shaykh : The outward appearance is the title of the inward reality.
The questioner : Yes, it is the title of the inward reality. So I say this issue exists now, and I consider it one of the most observed matters in the awakening.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Yes, you find hearts charged, you find souls containing what they contain, and you may find in the soul of another what he has not seen, but it was reported to him about it, and he did not verify it, so his heart became filled with it against him. And he may draw near to Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, by hating him!
The Shaykh : Unfortunately.
The questioner : Yes, and this is one of the things I have benefited from through the years that have passed. A person in the period of youth may go through various states, but let us note what I mentioned in one of the letters: the age of forty, which Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, mentioned and sent the messengers regarding it, among them the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh : Yes, I do.
The questioner : That it has a wisdom and a meaning. I feel that I have now reached, or am on the edge of, or have entered, the age of forty, and that there is a difference a person feels from what he sees of the years that have passed. He praises Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, that pitfalls have passed him by and Allah saved him from them!
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah.
The questioner : From impulsiveness, from enthusiasm, from things that, when clarified, one finds are not a reality, or are not at least as they were said to be!
The Shaykh : Correct.
The questioner : They are not as they were said to be. So I do not know, Shaykh, what is your comment on this issue?
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you. For about twenty years, we have said that all these groups and these parties that revolve around Islam and ruling by what Allah has revealed cannot achieve their goal unless they achieve two issues, which I refer to by two words: purification and education. And I say in the course of explaining that the purification has shown its features since decades ago, but we do not find a trace of the education. And therefore, I judge that all Islamic movements that revolve around establishing the ruling by what Allah has revealed on Muslim land cannot reach their goal, even with the Afghan jihad, and even if the jihad takes place in Algeria, the goal that all Islamic groups seek cannot be realized as long as they do not realize these two issues: purification and education. We are on the path of purification for twenty or thirty years, but we do not see a trace regarding the issue of education, because we have not found it there. We have found many scholars, and praise be to Allah, who work in the first field, which is purification: calling to the oneness of Allah, and calling to following the Book and the Sunnah, and purifying the authentic from the weak, and so on, and returning in Islamic jurisprudence to these two sources, and to the methodology of the Salaf. This is established. But we have not found one who calls and gathers people for this education, which is the fruit of the first call, which is purification. The land is barren in this regard, as far as I know. And often some of our brothers say, "Why do you not turn to this aspect?" I say, I am for all men, and I am not qualified to be a guide and a mentor, and so on. And my hope is that I find one who has combined purification and education in himself to perform the duty of educating others. And we ask Allah to extend to His believing servants the realization of this second issue, which is education in the purified Islam...
The students: Amen.
The Shaykh : May Allah grant success in that, if Allah wills.
The questioner : So, Shaykh, this topic of the examination of hearts has occupied me greatly when I saw it in the reality of the callers and the students of knowledge. In my opinion, the matter mostly returns to issues we touched upon recently, such as the love of fame and the love of reputation. These are matters of the heart, and we see their effects as they manifest.
The Shaykh : Yes, I do.
The questioner : Therefore, those who separate the belief of the heart and the action of the heart from the outward action are liars and misguided. They say, "There is faith in the heart, but you find no trace of it in the outward appearance." This is not correct. What is in the heart manifests itself.
The Shaykh : The outward appearance is the title of the inward reality.
The questioner : Yes, it is the title of the inward reality. So I say this issue exists now, and I consider it one of the most observed matters in the awakening.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Yes, you find hearts charged, you find souls containing what they contain, and you may find in the soul of another what he has not seen, but it was reported to him about it, and he did not verify it, so his heart became filled with it against him. And he may draw near to Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, by hating him!
The Shaykh : Unfortunately.
The questioner : Yes, and this is one of the things I have benefited from through the years that have passed. A person in the period of youth may go through various states, but let us note what I mentioned in one of the letters: the age of forty, which Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, mentioned and sent the messengers regarding it, among them the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
The Shaykh : Yes, I do.
The questioner : That it has a wisdom and a meaning. I feel that I have now reached, or am on the edge of, or have entered, the age of forty, and that there is a difference a person feels from what he sees of the years that have passed. He praises Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, that pitfalls have passed him by and Allah saved him from them!
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah.
The questioner : From impulsiveness, from enthusiasm, from things that, when clarified, one finds are not a reality, or are not at least as they were said to be!
The Shaykh : Correct.
The questioner : They are not as they were said to be. So I do not know, Shaykh, what is your comment on this issue?
The Shaykh : May Allah bless you. For about twenty years, we have said that all these groups and these parties that revolve around Islam and ruling by what Allah has revealed cannot achieve their goal unless they achieve two issues, which I refer to by two words: purification and education. And I say in the course of explaining that the purification has shown its features since decades ago, but we do not find a trace of the education. And therefore, I judge that all Islamic movements that revolve around establishing the ruling by what Allah has revealed on Muslim land cannot reach their goal, even with the Afghan jihad, and even if the jihad takes place in Algeria, the goal that all Islamic groups seek cannot be realized as long as they do not realize these two issues: purification and education. We are on the path of purification for twenty or thirty years, but we do not see a trace regarding the issue of education, because we have not found it there. We have found many scholars, and praise be to Allah, who work in the first field, which is purification: calling to the oneness of Allah, and calling to following the Book and the Sunnah, and purifying the authentic from the weak, and so on, and returning in Islamic jurisprudence to these two sources, and to the methodology of the Salaf. This is established. But we have not found one who calls and gathers people for this education, which is the fruit of the first call, which is purification. The land is barren in this regard, as far as I know. And often some of our brothers say, "Why do you not turn to this aspect?" I say, I am for all men, and I am not qualified to be a guide and a mentor, and so on. And my hope is that I find one who has combined purification and education in himself to perform the duty of educating others. And we ask Allah to extend to His believing servants the realization of this second issue, which is education in the purified Islam...