Is it true that the deviation of some callers to Allah from the correct methodology in calling to Allah is the cause of the oppression and restriction that the Muslim community is suffering from?
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The questioner : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah
And after that:
Praise be to Allah who has prepared for us the opportunity to meet the honorable Shaykh (may Allah preserve him).
The honorable Shaykh, some students of knowledge say: The restriction and oppression that the call to Allah is suffering from in the Islamic world is due to the callers' deviation from the sound methodology in the call, which is the methodology of the Prophets in calling to Allah. How accurate is this statement? I hope you will elaborate, your eminence?
The Shaykh : I cannot judge countries that are far from me. Their harassment of the callers may be based on the actions of some of the callers, or their harassment of the callers may be due to their hatred of the call itself. We do not know, and people differ.
But we say in general: It is incumbent upon the callers to employ wisdom in conveying the truth to creation. The intention is not to complain or to vindicate oneself, nor to look down on the one being called. The intention is reform. So take the path closest to reform. It may be in the interest not to speak about a person in front of me who is engaged in a wrong, and to postpone this to another time when there is room for conversation. It may also be in the interest not to forbid him by speech, but to call him by action, by writing, to invite him to my home, to honor him with hospitality, to give him a tangible or monetary gift, because Allah the Exalted has made a share of the zakah for those whose hearts are to be reconciled.
And the restriction that occurs in some countries on the callers, or on some of them, in my view, has two causes:
The first matter: That the state hates the truth, does not want the truth at all, and wants people to have their own religion and for it to have its own, each on their own path, and each doing what they please, provided that security is maintained and there is no chaos. This is, in reality, secularism that has no connection to the path of the Salaf. And some rulers may not hate the call to the truth, and may even support it and call to it, but they hate a specific methodology of some of the callers.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah
And after that:
Praise be to Allah who has prepared for us the opportunity to meet the honorable Shaykh (may Allah preserve him).
The honorable Shaykh, some students of knowledge say: The restriction and oppression that the call to Allah is suffering from in the Islamic world is due to the callers' deviation from the sound methodology in the call, which is the methodology of the Prophets in calling to Allah. How accurate is this statement? I hope you will elaborate, your eminence?
The Shaykh : I cannot judge countries that are far from me. Their harassment of the callers may be based on the actions of some of the callers, or their harassment of the callers may be due to their hatred of the call itself. We do not know, and people differ.
But we say in general: It is incumbent upon the callers to employ wisdom in conveying the truth to creation. The intention is not to complain or to vindicate oneself, nor to look down on the one being called. The intention is reform. So take the path closest to reform. It may be in the interest not to speak about a person in front of me who is engaged in a wrong, and to postpone this to another time when there is room for conversation. It may also be in the interest not to forbid him by speech, but to call him by action, by writing, to invite him to my home, to honor him with hospitality, to give him a tangible or monetary gift, because Allah the Exalted has made a share of the zakah for those whose hearts are to be reconciled.
And the restriction that occurs in some countries on the callers, or on some of them, in my view, has two causes:
The first matter: That the state hates the truth, does not want the truth at all, and wants people to have their own religion and for it to have its own, each on their own path, and each doing what they please, provided that security is maintained and there is no chaos. This is, in reality, secularism that has no connection to the path of the Salaf. And some rulers may not hate the call to the truth, and may even support it and call to it, but they hate a specific methodology of some of the callers.