His other question states: In Islamic lands where shirk (associating partners with Allah) prevails and the people of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) are few, to the extent that they are called Wahhabis because of their rarity, meaning the rarity of the people of tawhid.
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The questioner : His other question states: In Islamic lands where shirk (associating partners with Allah) prevails and the people of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) are few, to the extent that they are called Wahhabis because of their rarity, meaning the rarity of the people of tawhid among them.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Is their slaughter valid, given that they mention the name of Allah over it and do not acknowledge their shirk, just as is the case with those who worship graves?
The Shaykh : The slaughter of the mushrikin (those who associate partners with Allah) is not lawful, even if they mention Allah the Exalted, because they are mushrikin. This is indicated by the implication of the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Ma'idah 5:5] The implication of this is that the food of non-Muslims other than the People of the Book is not lawful for us, and by their food is meant their slaughter. The claim of those who assert that "those who were given the Scripture" is a title whose implication is not considered, and who tried thereby to say that the slaughter of the mushrikin is lawful, is an erroneous claim. This is because "those who were given the Scripture" is a relative noun with its clause, and a relative noun with its clause is in the position of a connection, meaning in the position of the doer or the name of the doer. So His saying: [Al-Baqarah 2:101]
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And the implication of a description is a considered matter among the specialists in the principles of jurisprudence. Accordingly, these people who worship graves and call upon the dead are mushrikin (those who associate partners with Allah), and their slaughter is not lawful.
As for calling the people of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) among them Wahhabis, this name was actually coined to distort the call to tawhid. Otherwise, Wahhabism is not an independent school of thought outside the schools of the Muslims. Rather, all the books of these scholars, from treatises to large and small works, all indicate that these people took their methodology from the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and that they did not deviate from what the established scholars of the Hanbali school, such as Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Qayyim, and others, were upon.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : However, because this call became strong by the grace of Allah the Sublime and Exalted, and by what He facilitated for it through the kings of the House of Saud, who carried it out in the best manner, when this call became strong, politics entered into it. The scholars of the state, not the scholars of the religion, began to distort this call, claiming it is a Wahhabi call that deviates from what the Muslims were upon from the famous schools of thought. They intend thereby to deter people from it. They are no different from the Quraysh when they said about the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "This is a lying sorcerer."
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Otherwise, whoever looks at this call with knowledge and fairness will realize that it is the reality of the Hanbali school and that of the other people of the Sunnah and the community, and that it does not go beyond what the Muslims of the Salaf (the earliest generations) of this Ummah (the Muslim community) were upon. Yes.
The questioner : His second question in this meeting, which he asks about and which has passed us by, states:
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : Is their slaughter valid, given that they mention the name of Allah over it and do not acknowledge their shirk, just as is the case with those who worship graves?
The Shaykh : The slaughter of the mushrikin (those who associate partners with Allah) is not lawful, even if they mention Allah the Exalted, because they are mushrikin. This is indicated by the implication of the saying of Allah the Exalted:
and the food of those who were given the Scripture is lawful for you
وَطَعَامُ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ حِلٌّ لَكُمْthose who had been given the Scripture
الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَThe questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And the implication of a description is a considered matter among the specialists in the principles of jurisprudence. Accordingly, these people who worship graves and call upon the dead are mushrikin (those who associate partners with Allah), and their slaughter is not lawful.
As for calling the people of tawhid (the oneness of Allah) among them Wahhabis, this name was actually coined to distort the call to tawhid. Otherwise, Wahhabism is not an independent school of thought outside the schools of the Muslims. Rather, all the books of these scholars, from treatises to large and small works, all indicate that these people took their methodology from the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and that they did not deviate from what the established scholars of the Hanbali school, such as Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Qayyim, and others, were upon.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : However, because this call became strong by the grace of Allah the Sublime and Exalted, and by what He facilitated for it through the kings of the House of Saud, who carried it out in the best manner, when this call became strong, politics entered into it. The scholars of the state, not the scholars of the religion, began to distort this call, claiming it is a Wahhabi call that deviates from what the Muslims were upon from the famous schools of thought. They intend thereby to deter people from it. They are no different from the Quraysh when they said about the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "This is a lying sorcerer."
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Otherwise, whoever looks at this call with knowledge and fairness will realize that it is the reality of the Hanbali school and that of the other people of the Sunnah and the community, and that it does not go beyond what the Muslims of the Salaf (the earliest generations) of this Ummah (the Muslim community) were upon. Yes.
The questioner : His second question in this meeting, which he asks about and which has passed us by, states: