Is there a necessary connection between the condemned partisanship and organized collective work in calling people to Allah?
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The questioner : Is there a necessary connection between the condemned partisanship and organized collective work in calling people to Allah?
The Shaykh : Organized collective work in calling people to Allah may be a party, or it may not be a party. Personally, and with me without a doubt are noble people, we do not see any objection to dividing the work among the individuals of the Muslims, and even among their groups. So every group performs its duty in the manner I mentioned earlier regarding the reformers. Just as we do not imagine hostility between those reformers, but rather the broad circle of Islam unites them, despite what may be lacking in each of these individuals, as I hinted at earlier, so I say the same about the groups that organize their affairs to carry out the call to Islam. If these groups do not have mutual hatred, turning away from one another, and hostility that reaches the point where an individual in one group takes a partisan stance against another group unjustly, then these groups must exist. However, it is necessary that they be bound by a principle and a unified methodology; this is absolutely necessary. For this reason, I sometimes state explicitly that I do not deny that there may be a group among the Muslims called the Muslim Brotherhood, or a group called the Tabligh group, or a group called the Liberation Party. I deny these groups as they are today, but I do not deny that such groups may exist if they agree with the call to the truth, which is following the Book and the Sunnah, with whom they are and wherever they are. When these groups—and let us call them now what they call themselves, these parties—when these parties do not align with the call to the truth, and rather they explicitly state in many countries that this call you are making is division and not unification, as if they mean that the goal of Islam is to bring together contradictions, as is the case with some of the existing groups today, which brings together the Sunni and the innovator, the Salafi and the later generation, and so on...
Abu Malik : Even between the Rafidi Shia.
The Shaykh : I intended to say this, and some of them may not be, as is said today, from the people of the Sunnah and the community.
The Shaykh : Organized collective work in calling people to Allah may be a party, or it may not be a party. Personally, and with me without a doubt are noble people, we do not see any objection to dividing the work among the individuals of the Muslims, and even among their groups. So every group performs its duty in the manner I mentioned earlier regarding the reformers. Just as we do not imagine hostility between those reformers, but rather the broad circle of Islam unites them, despite what may be lacking in each of these individuals, as I hinted at earlier, so I say the same about the groups that organize their affairs to carry out the call to Islam. If these groups do not have mutual hatred, turning away from one another, and hostility that reaches the point where an individual in one group takes a partisan stance against another group unjustly, then these groups must exist. However, it is necessary that they be bound by a principle and a unified methodology; this is absolutely necessary. For this reason, I sometimes state explicitly that I do not deny that there may be a group among the Muslims called the Muslim Brotherhood, or a group called the Tabligh group, or a group called the Liberation Party. I deny these groups as they are today, but I do not deny that such groups may exist if they agree with the call to the truth, which is following the Book and the Sunnah, with whom they are and wherever they are. When these groups—and let us call them now what they call themselves, these parties—when these parties do not align with the call to the truth, and rather they explicitly state in many countries that this call you are making is division and not unification, as if they mean that the goal of Islam is to bring together contradictions, as is the case with some of the existing groups today, which brings together the Sunni and the innovator, the Salafi and the later generation, and so on...
Abu Malik : Even between the Rafidi Shia.
The Shaykh : I intended to say this, and some of them may not be, as is said today, from the people of the Sunnah and the community.
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