What is your opinion of the Tablighi Jama'ah? They have errors in creed, such as claiming that the polytheists did not affirm the oneness of lordship, and permitting prayer in a mosque that contains a grave?
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The questioner : It has spread among us in Riyadh.
The Shaykh : Ah?
The questioner : I say it has spread among us in Riyadh, the Da'wah and Tabligh group, and we have found great errors with them, including in tawhid (the oneness of Allah). What is your opinion?
The Shaykh : What did you find?
The questioner : One of them spoke in front of me and said: Some people claim that the polytheists of Quraysh affirmed the oneness of lordship, and this is an error. What is your opinion, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Is that all?
The questioner : In some matters, but some of them say, and he himself says, that it is permissible to pray in a mosque that has a grave, and he cited the Prophet's Mosque as evidence.
The Shaykh : My opinion of the Tablighi Jama'ah is that they are a group with a great impact, and Allah has benefited through them. How many disbelievers or open sinners have been guided by them? This is a good deed that must never be denied. Then, they are quiet, very quiet; they do not speak about anyone. In fact, because of their extreme scrupulousness—which we may praise them for or not—they do not speak about matters of knowledge and jurisprudence for fear of making a mistake. If someone asks them for a ruling, they say: "Ask the scholars." But they have great ignorance; they have much ignorance, because most of them are common people, most of them are common people. If the students of knowledge went out with them and looked at the religious innovations or what is suspected to be innovation among them and guided them, there would be much good in that. And how many open sinners, open sinners, open sinners, these people contacted and became among the best of Allah's servants.
But what I advise is that they should not go outside the Saudi Arabian country, because the complex where they gather—I am told that its leaders are people of great religious innovation.
As for the statement of the one you agreed with, that the polytheists do not affirm the oneness of lordship, this is sufficient to call out his ignorance, and that he reads the Qur'an and does not know its meaning. For Quraysh affirm lordship. Allah Mighty and Majestic says:[Al-Mu'minun 23:86] The answer? سَيَقُولُونَ لِلَّهِ قُلْ مَنْ بِيَدِهِ مَلَكُوتُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَهُوَ يُجِيرُ وَلا يُجَارُ عَلَيْهِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ * سَيَقُولُونَ لِلَّه ،
قُلْ لِمَنِ الْأَرْضُ وَمَنْ فِيهَا إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ * سَيَقُولُونَ لِلَّهِ ، فهم مُقِرُّون.
ويقول عزَّ وجلَّ: قُلْ مَنْ يَرْزُقُكُمْ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ أَمَّنْ يَمْلِكُ السَّمْعَ وَالْأَبْصَارَ وَمَنْ يُخْرِجُ الْحَيَّ مِنَ الْمَيِّتِ وَيُخْرِجُ الْمَيِّتَ مِنَ الْحَيِّ وَمَنْ يُدَبِّرُ الْأَمْرَ فَسَيَقُولُونَ اللَّهُ ، وهذا واضح صريح.
وأما استدلاله بجواز الصلاة في مسجدٍ بُنِي على قبر بالمسجد النبوي ففيه قبر النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم هذا أيضاً من جهله، هذا من جهله، لأن قبر النبي صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم لم يُحْدَث في مسجد، ولم يُبْنَ عليه مسجد، هل دفن الرسول في مسجده؟ أين دفن؟ في بيت عائشة، وهل بني المسجد على قبره؟ لا، لكن لَمَّا احتاج الناس إلى توسعته ورأوا أن أنسب مكان يُوَسَّع منه هي الجهة الشرقية وَسَّعُوهُ، وبقي القبر في مقصورته في مكانه في بيت مستقل، فليس هو في المسجد، ولم يُبْنَ المسجد عليه، وهذا واضح. نعم
السائل : ...
الشيخ : نحن نمنع من التعقيب على الأسئلة، لأننا لو عقبنا جاء جار ومجرور ومضاف ومضاف إليه ونعت ومنعوت. نعم They will say: "Allah." Say: "Who has the dominion of all things in His hand, and He protects [whom He wills] and no one can protect against Him, if you know?" They will say: "Allah." Say: "Whose is the earth and whoever is in it, if you know?" They will say: "Allah." So they are affirming. And Allah Mighty and Majestic says: "Say: 'Who provides for you from the heaven and the earth? Or who has control of hearing and sight? And who brings out the living from the dead and brings out the dead from the living? And who directs the affair?' They will say: 'Allah.'" And this is clear and explicit. As for his citing as evidence the permissibility of praying in a mosque built over a grave, using the Prophet's Mosque, where the grave of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is, this is also from his ignorance, this is from his ignorance, because the grave of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) was not established in a mosque, and a mosque was not built over it. Was the Messenger buried in his mosque? Where was he buried? In the house of A'ishah. And was the mosque built over his grave? No. But when the people needed to expand it and saw that the most suitable place to expand from was the eastern side, they expanded it, and the grave remained in its enclosure in its place in a separate building, so it is not in the mosque, and the mosque was not built over it, and this is clear. Yes. The questioner: ... The Shaykh: We prevent commenting on the questions, because if we commented, there would be a genitive, a genitive case, a possessive, a possessed, a description, and a described. Yes.
The Shaykh : Ah?
The questioner : I say it has spread among us in Riyadh, the Da'wah and Tabligh group, and we have found great errors with them, including in tawhid (the oneness of Allah). What is your opinion?
The Shaykh : What did you find?
The questioner : One of them spoke in front of me and said: Some people claim that the polytheists of Quraysh affirmed the oneness of lordship, and this is an error. What is your opinion, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Is that all?
The questioner : In some matters, but some of them say, and he himself says, that it is permissible to pray in a mosque that has a grave, and he cited the Prophet's Mosque as evidence.
The Shaykh : My opinion of the Tablighi Jama'ah is that they are a group with a great impact, and Allah has benefited through them. How many disbelievers or open sinners have been guided by them? This is a good deed that must never be denied. Then, they are quiet, very quiet; they do not speak about anyone. In fact, because of their extreme scrupulousness—which we may praise them for or not—they do not speak about matters of knowledge and jurisprudence for fear of making a mistake. If someone asks them for a ruling, they say: "Ask the scholars." But they have great ignorance; they have much ignorance, because most of them are common people, most of them are common people. If the students of knowledge went out with them and looked at the religious innovations or what is suspected to be innovation among them and guided them, there would be much good in that. And how many open sinners, open sinners, open sinners, these people contacted and became among the best of Allah's servants.
But what I advise is that they should not go outside the Saudi Arabian country, because the complex where they gather—I am told that its leaders are people of great religious innovation.
As for the statement of the one you agreed with, that the polytheists do not affirm the oneness of lordship, this is sufficient to call out his ignorance, and that he reads the Qur'an and does not know its meaning. For Quraysh affirm lordship. Allah Mighty and Majestic says:
Say, "Who is Lord of the seven heavens and Lord of the Great Throne?"
قُلْ مَنْ رَبُّ السَّمَاوَاتِ السَّبْعِ وَرَبُّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِقُلْ لِمَنِ الْأَرْضُ وَمَنْ فِيهَا إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ * سَيَقُولُونَ لِلَّهِ ، فهم مُقِرُّون.
ويقول عزَّ وجلَّ: قُلْ مَنْ يَرْزُقُكُمْ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ أَمَّنْ يَمْلِكُ السَّمْعَ وَالْأَبْصَارَ وَمَنْ يُخْرِجُ الْحَيَّ مِنَ الْمَيِّتِ وَيُخْرِجُ الْمَيِّتَ مِنَ الْحَيِّ وَمَنْ يُدَبِّرُ الْأَمْرَ فَسَيَقُولُونَ اللَّهُ ، وهذا واضح صريح.
وأما استدلاله بجواز الصلاة في مسجدٍ بُنِي على قبر بالمسجد النبوي ففيه قبر النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم هذا أيضاً من جهله، هذا من جهله، لأن قبر النبي صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم لم يُحْدَث في مسجد، ولم يُبْنَ عليه مسجد، هل دفن الرسول في مسجده؟ أين دفن؟ في بيت عائشة، وهل بني المسجد على قبره؟ لا، لكن لَمَّا احتاج الناس إلى توسعته ورأوا أن أنسب مكان يُوَسَّع منه هي الجهة الشرقية وَسَّعُوهُ، وبقي القبر في مقصورته في مكانه في بيت مستقل، فليس هو في المسجد، ولم يُبْنَ المسجد عليه، وهذا واضح. نعم
السائل : ...
الشيخ : نحن نمنع من التعقيب على الأسئلة، لأننا لو عقبنا جاء جار ومجرور ومضاف ومضاف إليه ونعت ومنعوت. نعم They will say: "Allah." Say: "Who has the dominion of all things in His hand, and He protects [whom He wills] and no one can protect against Him, if you know?" They will say: "Allah." Say: "Whose is the earth and whoever is in it, if you know?" They will say: "Allah." So they are affirming. And Allah Mighty and Majestic says: "Say: 'Who provides for you from the heaven and the earth? Or who has control of hearing and sight? And who brings out the living from the dead and brings out the dead from the living? And who directs the affair?' They will say: 'Allah.'" And this is clear and explicit. As for his citing as evidence the permissibility of praying in a mosque built over a grave, using the Prophet's Mosque, where the grave of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is, this is also from his ignorance, this is from his ignorance, because the grave of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) was not established in a mosque, and a mosque was not built over it. Was the Messenger buried in his mosque? Where was he buried? In the house of A'ishah. And was the mosque built over his grave? No. But when the people needed to expand it and saw that the most suitable place to expand from was the eastern side, they expanded it, and the grave remained in its enclosure in its place in a separate building, so it is not in the mosque, and the mosque was not built over it, and this is clear. Yes. The questioner: ... The Shaykh: We prevent commenting on the questions, because if we commented, there would be a genitive, a genitive case, a possessive, a possessed, a description, and a described. Yes.