What is the validity of your agreement with Shaykh Mubarak in the statement he wrote regarding the prohibition of partisanship and entering parliaments?

The questioner : I say that the Ikhwan, there, Shaykh Mubarak and the students of knowledge there, issued a statement clarifying the prohibition of partisanship, entering parliaments, and coordinating between Islamic parties and secular parties. They said that they sent you a copy of this statement and that you agreed with them that what they wrote is forbidden. So we do not know, meaning, the validity of this?

The Shaykh : The copy, my brother, was with them, and my signature was with them. What does the question mean?

The questioner : Even before I came, your signature was not with them; it was what they had written themselves. They said that they...

The Shaykh : They gave us, what is it called, a printed statement.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : And I agreed to it and put my signature on it.

The questioner : May Allah reward you.

The Shaykh : That is it.

The questioner : So this question, which is what we wanted to ask, has been answered through your signature on the statement.

The Shaykh: Yes.