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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The meaning of the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Every innovation is misguidance," and the response to those who divided innovations into good innovation and bad innovation

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The Shaykh : Whether in creed, in speech, or in action, due to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his companions):
every innovation is going astray, and every going astray is in the Fire كل بدعة ضلالة وكل ضلالة في النار
Sunan an-Nasa'i 1578Sahih (Darussalam)
And misguidance is not accepted, because Allah does not accept anything except what is true, and innovation is misguidance and falsehood.
Every innovation كل بدعة
There is no difference between innovation in creed, innovation in speech, and innovation in action, because the hadith is general:
Every innovation كل بدعة
without any specification, and the one who said it
Every innovation is misguidance. كل بدعة ضلالة
is whom? The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his companions), and we all agree that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his companions) is the most knowledgeable of people regarding the Shari'ah of Allah, is that not so? And we all agree that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his companions) is the most truthful of people in speech, is that not so? And we all agree that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his companions) is the most sincere of creation toward creation, we agree on this, and we all agree that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his companions) is the most eloquent of creation, the most eloquent of creation, his speech is the most eloquent speech of creation, and there is no dispute in that, Allah the Exalted gave him the keys of speech and condensed speech for him, and you will find two or three words from the speech of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) correspond to volumes, because he was given the summaries of speech (peace and blessings be upon him), and then his speech is clear, distinct, upon him is light.
So these are four things, first: that he is what? The most knowledgeable of creation regarding the Shari'ah of Allah.
Second: The most truthful of creation in what he says.
Third: The most sincere of creation toward creation.
Fourth: The most eloquent of creation.
So if these four things are gathered in his speech, and he said to us:
Every innovation is misguidance. كل بدعة ضلالة
Is it possible for anyone to break this general image and say: Some innovations are true, and some innovations are guidance? The answer: No, it is not possible, so whoever among people thinks that an innovation among innovations is good, he is mistaken, either in it being an innovation, or in it being good.
I hope you pay attention, and especially the students of knowledge.
Who is the one who said:
Every innovation is misguidance. كل بدعة ضلالة
? The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), so whoever thinks that something newly introduced in the religion is good, he is mistaken, either in it being an innovation or in it being good.
As for something gathering in it that it is an innovation and that it is good, this is impossible, impossible by the speech of whom? By the speech of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his companions)
Every innovation is misguidance. كل بدعة ضلالة
there is nothing in it, he did not exclude anything ever.
Source alathar.net

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