What is your advice for the youth who have become divided due to their affiliation with sects and groups?
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The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : May Allah reward you, O honorable Shaykh. We have several groups in the university, and each group tries to attract the largest number of new students. So, when a student goes to one group, a kind of hostility arises between him and the other groups, to the point that one of them passes by the others without greeting them, and they do not greet him either.
The Shaykh : I seek refuge in Allah.
The questioner : So what should a person do to be safe in his religion and to prevent hostility from arising between him and his Muslim brothers?
The Shaykh : First, we say that this division must be removed, and a believer should be a brother to his believing brother, not oppressing him, not lying to him, and not looking down on him. It is obligatory for the senior figures in the university, such as the professors, the principal, or the class monitors, to try to remove this division above all else. If that happens, that is good and excellent. If it does not happen, then he should isolate himself from all the groups; he should not be with these or with those. That is the way. However, if we suppose that there is, for example, a sect whose deviation is clear and a sect whose righteousness is clear, it is well known that a person chooses the latter over the former.
The questioner : May Allah reward you, O honorable Shaykh. We have several groups in the university, and each group tries to attract the largest number of new students. So, when a student goes to one group, a kind of hostility arises between him and the other groups, to the point that one of them passes by the others without greeting them, and they do not greet him either.
The Shaykh : I seek refuge in Allah.
The questioner : So what should a person do to be safe in his religion and to prevent hostility from arising between him and his Muslim brothers?
The Shaykh : First, we say that this division must be removed, and a believer should be a brother to his believing brother, not oppressing him, not lying to him, and not looking down on him. It is obligatory for the senior figures in the university, such as the professors, the principal, or the class monitors, to try to remove this division above all else. If that happens, that is good and excellent. If it does not happen, then he should isolate himself from all the groups; he should not be with these or with those. That is the way. However, if we suppose that there is, for example, a sect whose deviation is clear and a sect whose righteousness is clear, it is well known that a person chooses the latter over the former.