He was asked about those who say, “Our creed is Salafi, but our call is Ikhwan.”

The questioner : Some people say, “Our methodology is Salafi and our creed is Salafi, but our way is Ikhwan.” What is your opinion of this statement?

The Shaykh : We hope that they are sincere in their claim that their call is Salafi. Have you seen that they worship and believe in accordance with what the righteous Salaf did? If it is merely a word that one says, they have now realized that the call of the truth is the Salafi call, so they have latched onto this phenomenon and are hiding behind it. It is absolutely impossible to reconcile the Salafi call with the Ikhwan call. One must lean toward one of them in truth, to the exclusion of the other. As we have said in many gatherings, the call of the Muslim Brotherhood is based on masses, then culture, then no culture. Write that down, because this reality represents the actual situation!

The questioner: Allahu Akbar.

The Shaykh : And even if you hear it, it is the reality. Yes.

The questioner : O Shaykh, but masses.

The Shaykh : Masses, then no culture. Welcome, Abu Abd al-Rahman.

The questioner : Welcome, Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Hmm, and it is.

The questioner : May Allah reward you.

The Shaykh : For those who imitated in it, it is.

The questioner : ... Our Shaykh, hmm.

The Shaykh : Haha, the earth is inhabited, you see.

The questioner : This is ... O Shaykh Nasser.

The Shaykh : What prevented you from getting what you wanted?

The questioner : Because I do not know where.

The Shaykh : And Umar, when that man and a Bedouin said to him, “Do you flee from the decree of Allah?” he said: Yes, we flee from the decree of Allah to the decree of Allah. Because the decree of Allah is hidden from us. Then you find the Muslim Brotherhood, and nearly a century has passed for them with no culture at all. If this is the case, we can state it clearly in a phrase that does not involve deception of the people: their call is Salafi, but according to the methodology of the Ikhwan. We hope that they are!

The questioner : ... They themselves are different, Shaykh. You find some of them are Sufis, and you find some of them are Ash'aris?

The Shaykh : We did not say that today. This morning, may Allah reward you, we said that the Muslim Brotherhood in Oman is different from the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria!

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : These and those are different from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Then our brother Abu Badr mentioned that all of these are different from the Muslim Brotherhood in ... in Saudi Arabia. They are truly changing their colors!

The questioner : We think, for example, of Iraq.

The Shaykh : Every vessel, plus there are Muslim Brotherhood members in Iraq. Yes, but that was in the past.

The questioner : Shaykh, do you remember the difference between the Muslim Brotherhood in Damascus and the Muslim Brotherhood in Aleppo?

The Shaykh : Aleppo, correct. The Muslim Brotherhood in Damascus study the jurisprudence of the Sunnah. The Muslim Brotherhood in Damascus study the jurisprudence of the Sunnah and use *Tamam al-Mannah* to aid in the jurisprudence of the Sunnah. The Muslim Brotherhood in Aleppo and Deir al-Zor prohibit the teaching of this book in their series and say that the author is one of the disciples of Hassan al-Banna.The Shaykh : They say that Sayyid Sabiq is a Wahhabi. These are Ikhwan and these are Ikhwan; they have no intellectual methodology at all. We seek help from Allah.

The questioner : Our Shaykh, likewise in Kuwait. Our Shaykh, the Muslim Brotherhood has several sections: what about the Palestinians, what about the Kuwaitis, what about the Egyptians from the Muslim Brotherhood? We used to hear a lot.

The questioner : The other: Shaykh Mubarak, in his book ... he said, “The bankrupt Ikhwan.”