Is it true that it is said that boycotting the innovator in this time is not possible? And is it possible to boycott the innovator in an environment where most of its people are from the people of the Sunnah?
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The questioner : But for example, if you find an environment where the majority of the people in this environment are from the people of the Sunnah, and then you find, I mean, some upstarts who innovate in the religion of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), does the ruling apply here or not?
The Shaykh : If you find in this group the same people
The questioner : Yes, in this same environment where, I mean, the truth prevails
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : And falsehood and innovations have appeared, and the innovations have become manifest
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : In this case, I do not know what you say
The Shaykh : It is obligatory here to employ wisdom
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : This dominant, strong group: if they boycott the deviant group from the community, does the previous statement apply? Does that benefit the group holding fast to the truth, or does it harm them? This is from their side. Then, does it benefit the boycotters and the boycotted from the victorious group, or does it harm them? The answer to this has been given previously in that regard.
The questioner : Now, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : I mean, it is not befitting for us to take such matters with enthusiasm and emotion, but rather with deliberation, patience, and wisdom. If, for example, here one of these people deviates and opposes the group, "Ah, out of zeal for Allah, we will boycott him." No. Be gentle with him, advise him, guide him, and so on. Accompany him for a period. If you first become hopeless regarding him, and then secondly you fear that his influence will spread to Zayd and Bakr, then at that time he is boycotted, if the prevailing opinion is that boycotting is the cure, as it is said, "The last resort of medicine is cauterization."
The questioner : He is, our Shaykh, has such a question
The Shaykh : Generally speaking, I do not advise today the use of the treatment of boycotting at all, because it harms more than it benefits. The greatest evidence is the fitnah currently occurring in the Hijaz. They are all united by the call of tawhid (the oneness of Allah), which is the call of the Book and the Sunnah. But because some of them have a special activity, either in politics or in some ideas that were not known before from any of the scholars of knowledge, and it may be wrong and it may be right, we do not accept anything we hear that is new, especially if it is a matter that appears to us to be strange at first glance. We immediately fight it. This is a mistake, my brother. This is a mistake. I mean, you want a friend with no fault and a pipe that emits no smoke. We wish the Muslim brothers would be with us, only on tawhid, only on tawhid, so that we would be with them. They are not satisfied with us even on the creed, and they say that raising differences splits the ranks, splits the gathering, and so on. These Muslim brothers, from whom a group split, or from whom they split, Allah knows best. These are with us on the whole line in the Book and the Sunnah and the methodology of the Salaf (the earliest generations) the righteous. But they brought something new, truly some of it is wrong and some of it is right. So why do we now spread among ourselves division, partisanship, and fanaticism? While we were one block, we became two blocks. We became two blocks, they became three, they became Sufriyyin, they became Saruriyyin, and so on. Allah is the Greatest. And nothing divided them that is worthy of division. There is no disagreement in the great matters in which we cannot imagine that the Salafis would differ. We all know that the Companions differed on some issues, but the methodology was one. And therefore, if you imagine that a group from the people of the Sunnah and the community and from the victorious group, individuals deviate from them, we take them with gentleness and softness, my brother, and we try to keep them with the group, and we do not boycott them and we do not abandon them, except if we fear from them a fear, and this does not appear immediately. I mean, as soon as one person expresses a deviant opinion and strays from the group, it is not befitting to immediately boycott him and abandon him, but rather we wait, so that perhaps Allah (Mighty and Majestic) will guide his heart, or it becomes clear to us that separating him is better. Anyone else?
The Shaykh : If you find in this group the same people
The questioner : Yes, in this same environment where, I mean, the truth prevails
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : And falsehood and innovations have appeared, and the innovations have become manifest
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : In this case, I do not know what you say
The Shaykh : It is obligatory here to employ wisdom
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : This dominant, strong group: if they boycott the deviant group from the community, does the previous statement apply? Does that benefit the group holding fast to the truth, or does it harm them? This is from their side. Then, does it benefit the boycotters and the boycotted from the victorious group, or does it harm them? The answer to this has been given previously in that regard.
The questioner : Now, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : I mean, it is not befitting for us to take such matters with enthusiasm and emotion, but rather with deliberation, patience, and wisdom. If, for example, here one of these people deviates and opposes the group, "Ah, out of zeal for Allah, we will boycott him." No. Be gentle with him, advise him, guide him, and so on. Accompany him for a period. If you first become hopeless regarding him, and then secondly you fear that his influence will spread to Zayd and Bakr, then at that time he is boycotted, if the prevailing opinion is that boycotting is the cure, as it is said, "The last resort of medicine is cauterization."
The questioner : He is, our Shaykh, has such a question
The Shaykh : Generally speaking, I do not advise today the use of the treatment of boycotting at all, because it harms more than it benefits. The greatest evidence is the fitnah currently occurring in the Hijaz. They are all united by the call of tawhid (the oneness of Allah), which is the call of the Book and the Sunnah. But because some of them have a special activity, either in politics or in some ideas that were not known before from any of the scholars of knowledge, and it may be wrong and it may be right, we do not accept anything we hear that is new, especially if it is a matter that appears to us to be strange at first glance. We immediately fight it. This is a mistake, my brother. This is a mistake. I mean, you want a friend with no fault and a pipe that emits no smoke. We wish the Muslim brothers would be with us, only on tawhid, only on tawhid, so that we would be with them. They are not satisfied with us even on the creed, and they say that raising differences splits the ranks, splits the gathering, and so on. These Muslim brothers, from whom a group split, or from whom they split, Allah knows best. These are with us on the whole line in the Book and the Sunnah and the methodology of the Salaf (the earliest generations) the righteous. But they brought something new, truly some of it is wrong and some of it is right. So why do we now spread among ourselves division, partisanship, and fanaticism? While we were one block, we became two blocks. We became two blocks, they became three, they became Sufriyyin, they became Saruriyyin, and so on. Allah is the Greatest. And nothing divided them that is worthy of division. There is no disagreement in the great matters in which we cannot imagine that the Salafis would differ. We all know that the Companions differed on some issues, but the methodology was one. And therefore, if you imagine that a group from the people of the Sunnah and the community and from the victorious group, individuals deviate from them, we take them with gentleness and softness, my brother, and we try to keep them with the group, and we do not boycott them and we do not abandon them, except if we fear from them a fear, and this does not appear immediately. I mean, as soon as one person expresses a deviant opinion and strays from the group, it is not befitting to immediately boycott him and abandon him, but rather we wait, so that perhaps Allah (Mighty and Majestic) will guide his heart, or it becomes clear to us that separating him is better. Anyone else?
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