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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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We request clarification of the path of the people of the Sunnah and the community in establishing the ruling of Allah, or what is called the sovereignty of Allah

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The Shaykh : We are with all those who call for establishing the ruling of Allah on earth, and for realizing what they call today: that the sovereignty belongs to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) alone, with no partner for Him. We are with them in this, but we differ from them completely in the path. Our path is long and extended, while their path is short but deviates from the straight path. This is what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) indicated in this beautiful and exquisite image, when he drew the straight path as a long, straight line, and drew the winding paths deviating from it as short paths, pointing to this reality: that the Satanic paths, which their callers claim lead them to realizing Islam and establishing its ruling on earth, are not among the paths that lead to good. This is because the path leading to good is a single path; I am permitted to say: with no partner for it. It is a single path because it is revelation from the sky, revelation from Allah upon the heart of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Therefore, it does not accept multiplicity like the One who reveals it, who is Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He). Among the wonders of how Muslims have deviated from the texts of the Book and the Sunnah, and especially this hadith, is that they collide with the hadith head-on. Despite its explicit statement that the path is one, they say: the paths leading to Allah are as numerous as the breaths of creation. If our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) has favored us and guided us to stand and walk on this straight path, then two things are obligatory upon us. The first thing: that we appreciate this blessing and that we perform its gratitude to our Lord (Blessed and Exalted is He). You know His saying (Mighty and Majestic):
If you are grateful, I will surely increase you لَئِنْ شَكَرْتُمْ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ
[Ibrahim 14:7]
. If we thank our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) for guiding us to this straight path, He will increase us in guidance and increase us in insight in walking on this path, and give us patience in the face of the hardships that confront us from the callers to these paths that deviate from the straight path. They make those strangers about whom He said:
So blessed are the strangers فطوبى للغرباء
. That is His saying (peace be upon him):
Islam began as something strange and will go back to being strange, so glad tidings to the strangers. إن الإسلام بدأ غريبًا ، وسيعود غريبًا ، فطوبى للغرباء
Sunan Ibn Majah 3987Hasan (Darussalam)
. Narrations have come regarding the interpretation of the strangers, and all of them apply to many of the callers to following the Book and the Sunnah, and that is from the favor of Allah. From those narrations: It was said: O Messenger of Allah, who are the strangers? He said:
They are a few righteous people among many people, and those who disobey them are more than those who obey them هم ناس قليلون صالحون ، بين ناس كثيرين ، مَن يعصيهم أكثر ممَّن يطيعهم
. This is the reality as you witness, and there is no refutation for it.
A few righteous people among many people, and those who disobey them are more than those who obey them أناس قليلون صالحون بين ناس كثيرين ، مَن يعصيهم أكثر ممَّن يطيعهم
. Therefore, they were strangers even among their relatives, even among their fathers and mothers. This is because religious kinship is the strongest bond and connection for relatives in religion compared to blood kinship. Therefore, these righteous strangers are strangers in terms of creed and in terms of following the Book and the Sunnah, even if they live among their relatives and their tribe. Nevertheless, they are strangers because they are righteous while those around them are wicked. This is one narration. The other narration is more exquisite, and it is more motivating for us to persevere on our path and to be patient in that. That is his saying (peace and blessings be upon him):
for they will set right the corruptions caused in my sunna by people after my death الغرباء هم الذين يصلحون ما أفسد الناس من سنَّتي من بعدي
Mishkat al-Masabih 170Isnād Da'īf Jiddan (Zubair `Aliza'i)
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for they will set right the corruptions caused in my sunna by people after my death الغرباء هم الذين يصلحون ما أفسد الناس من سنَّتي من بعدي
Mishkat al-Masabih 170Isnād Da'īf Jiddan (Zubair `Aliza'i)
. This description is the description of the callers to the Book and the Sunnah, and upon the methodology of the righteous Salaf. May Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) make us among them.
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