What is your opinion regarding the severity reported about you in responding to those who disagree with you, even if they are from the people of the Sunnah?
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The questioner: O Shaykh, a question after your permission, regarding the severity, meaning, that may be reported about you in responding to someone, even if the person is from the people of the Sunnah.
The Shaykh: This is a sister of that.
The questioner: We want the evidence for it, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: The evidence is the answer, not what you see, not what you hear, heh heh, Glory be to Allah, where is the severity? Give an example so we can see.
The questioner: For example, O Shaykh, may Allah bless you, Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd, when I discussed with him "Tamam al-Mannah," meaning, even many people say Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd is a Salafi and that Shaykh is on the path.
The Shaykh: ... I do not believe that one who is fanatical about a school of jurisprudence is a Salafi, nor do I believe that the person who says there is nothing new in the rulings of prayer is a Salafi, nor do I believe that one who strains himself and falls into the denial of the rulings of the Shari'ah believes that denial is confined only to the divine attributes. This distinction arises from sectarian fanaticism, because there is no difference between denying the verses and hadiths of attributes and denying the verses and hadiths of rulings, on the grounds that this is contrary, or on the grounds that there is severity in this, or the like. So forgive me if I have fallen into some of the alleged, if not claimed, severity. It is only zeal for the Sunnah, for which the least I can say is that they do not become enthusiastic for it, if not that they do not encourage following it, nor do they help in spreading it. What was recently issued regarding the leveling of the rows and the straining in the figurative interpretation of close standing, you must be aware of it. Did you not see in it a denial of the rulings of the Shari'ah?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: Well, what is the position of the one who is enthusiastic for the Sunnah? Allah is the Helper. The important thing is, first:[Yusuf 12:53], second: I do not use severity unless there is someone who deserves severity for myself. And of course, you notice the exception, meaning, there may be someone who accuses me of what is not in me, so I use severity and avenge myself, and I find no objection in that from the legal perspective, because among the supplications of the Messenger, as you know, is: . But if there is no one who has attacked me and I have been harsh with him in speech, it is not vengeance for myself, but vengeance for the Sunnah of his Prophet. So have you found anything of vengeance for the self? Then it does not harm me if I am severe in some places out of enthusiasm for the Sunnah, which has become abandoned, if not fought against, by those we think are from the people of the Sunnah. In any case, I do not exonerate myself. Yes.
Al-Halabi: O our Shaykh, here in the introduction to "Al-Silsilah al-Da'ifah," Part One, the new edition, there is a beautiful word regarding this topic. I do not know if the brothers have looked at it.
The Shaykh: By Allah, we hear it.
Al-Halabi: O our Shaykh, after you responded to some people regarding some things mentioned in their speech about you, you said at the end of this introduction: "I must have a word to direct to every sincere one of my readers, whether he is beloved or hateful. I say: Many of them ask me about the reason for the severity."
The Shaykh : Yes, that is right.
Al-Halabi: "That sometimes appears in some of my writings in response to some writers against me. And in answer to that, I say: Let these readers know that, with the praise of Allah, I do not start with anyone who responds to me with a scholarly response in which there is no aggression. Rather, I am among those who are grateful to him. And if something of that severity is found in some place in my books, that returns to one of two states: The first: That it is a response to one who responded to me initially, and he went to extremes in it and wronged me with lies and fabrication, like Abu Ghuddah and al-A'zami, who hid behind the name Arshad al-Salafi, and so on. And such oppressors, in my belief, are not benefited by forgiveness and softness; rather, it may harm them and encourage them to continue in their rebellion and aggression, as the poet said: "If you honor the noble, you will possess him," "And if you honor the base, he will rebel," "And placing kindness in the place of the sword by nobility," "Is harmful like placing the sword in the place of kindness." Indeed, bearing the oppression of such people who put themselves forward to guide people and teach them may sometimes be beyond human capacity. And therefore, the Islamic Shari'ah took this capacity into consideration, and did not say, and praise be to Allah, as in the claimed Gospel today: "Whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other," and "Whoever asks you for your cloak, give him your robe." Rather, He, the Exalted, said:[Al-Baqarah 2:194], and He said: , and I remember, by the grace of Allah the Exalted, that the completion of this second verse is: فَمَنْ عَفَا وَأَصْلَحَ فَأَجْرُهُ عَلَى اللَّهِ إِنَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الظَّالِمِينَ 40 وَلَمَنِ انْتَصَرَ بَعْدَ ظُلْمِهِ فَأُولَئِكَ مَا عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ سَبِيلٍ So whoever forgives and makes reform, his reward is with Allah. Indeed, He does not love the wrongdoers. 40 And whoever takes revenge after he has been wronged, there is no blame upon them.."
The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest!
Al-Halabi:[Ash-Shuraa 42:42-43], but I believe that the praiseworthy forgiveness and the rewarded patience is only for one whom it is most likely that that will benefit the oppressor and not harm him, and will honor the patient and not humiliate him, as indicated by his practical conduct, (peace and blessings be upon him), with his enemies, and his saying, (peace and blessings be upon him): Mishkat al-Masabih 4509, and the least that is taken," then speech, what Allah wills, well, O our Shaykh.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you.
Al-Halabi: May Allah preserve you, O our Shaykh, and bless you.
The Shaykh: In any case, you look.
The questioner: Our professor, may Allah bless you, we mention... a session in which the common people asked you about academic theft and its limits.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: I do not know. If you see this session suitable for you to speak about this, give us the pearls and precious things...
The Shaykh: No, I do not see it in such a session, but it will be in a session specifically for the original.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh: And you as well, if Allah wills.
The Shaykh: This is a sister of that.
The questioner: We want the evidence for it, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh: The evidence is the answer, not what you see, not what you hear, heh heh, Glory be to Allah, where is the severity? Give an example so we can see.
The questioner: For example, O Shaykh, may Allah bless you, Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd, when I discussed with him "Tamam al-Mannah," meaning, even many people say Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd is a Salafi and that Shaykh is on the path.
The Shaykh: ... I do not believe that one who is fanatical about a school of jurisprudence is a Salafi, nor do I believe that the person who says there is nothing new in the rulings of prayer is a Salafi, nor do I believe that one who strains himself and falls into the denial of the rulings of the Shari'ah believes that denial is confined only to the divine attributes. This distinction arises from sectarian fanaticism, because there is no difference between denying the verses and hadiths of attributes and denying the verses and hadiths of rulings, on the grounds that this is contrary, or on the grounds that there is severity in this, or the like. So forgive me if I have fallen into some of the alleged, if not claimed, severity. It is only zeal for the Sunnah, for which the least I can say is that they do not become enthusiastic for it, if not that they do not encourage following it, nor do they help in spreading it. What was recently issued regarding the leveling of the rows and the straining in the figurative interpretation of close standing, you must be aware of it. Did you not see in it a denial of the rulings of the Shari'ah?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: Well, what is the position of the one who is enthusiastic for the Sunnah? Allah is the Helper. The important thing is, first:
And I do not acquit myself. Indeed, the soul is a persistent enjoiner of evil, except those upon which my Lord has mercy
وَمَا أُبَرِّئُ نَفْسِي إِنَّ النَّفْسَ لَأَمَّارَةٌ بِالسُّوءِ إِلَّا مَا رَحِمَ رَبِّيAnd show me my vengeance in whoever wronged me.
وأرني ثأري فيمَن ظلمنيAl-Halabi: O our Shaykh, here in the introduction to "Al-Silsilah al-Da'ifah," Part One, the new edition, there is a beautiful word regarding this topic. I do not know if the brothers have looked at it.
The Shaykh: By Allah, we hear it.
Al-Halabi: O our Shaykh, after you responded to some people regarding some things mentioned in their speech about you, you said at the end of this introduction: "I must have a word to direct to every sincere one of my readers, whether he is beloved or hateful. I say: Many of them ask me about the reason for the severity."
The Shaykh : Yes, that is right.
Al-Halabi: "That sometimes appears in some of my writings in response to some writers against me. And in answer to that, I say: Let these readers know that, with the praise of Allah, I do not start with anyone who responds to me with a scholarly response in which there is no aggression. Rather, I am among those who are grateful to him. And if something of that severity is found in some place in my books, that returns to one of two states: The first: That it is a response to one who responded to me initially, and he went to extremes in it and wronged me with lies and fabrication, like Abu Ghuddah and al-A'zami, who hid behind the name Arshad al-Salafi, and so on. And such oppressors, in my belief, are not benefited by forgiveness and softness; rather, it may harm them and encourage them to continue in their rebellion and aggression, as the poet said: "If you honor the noble, you will possess him," "And if you honor the base, he will rebel," "And placing kindness in the place of the sword by nobility," "Is harmful like placing the sword in the place of kindness." Indeed, bearing the oppression of such people who put themselves forward to guide people and teach them may sometimes be beyond human capacity. And therefore, the Islamic Shari'ah took this capacity into consideration, and did not say, and praise be to Allah, as in the claimed Gospel today: "Whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other," and "Whoever asks you for your cloak, give him your robe." Rather, He, the Exalted, said:
So whoever has assaulted you, then assault him in the same way that he has assaulted you
فَمَنِ اعْتَدَى عَلَيْكُمْ فَاعْتَدُوا عَلَيْهِ بِمِثْلِ مَا اعْتَدَى عَلَيْكُمْAnd the recompense for an evil is an evil like it
وَجَزَاءُ سَيِّئَةٍ سَيِّئَةٌ مِثْلُهَاThe Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest!
Al-Halabi:
(42) The cause is only against the ones who wrong the people and tyrannize upon the earth without right. Those will have a painful punishment. (43) And whoever is patient and forgives - indeed, that is of the matters [requiring] determination.
إِنَّمَا السَّبِيلُ عَلَى الَّذِينَ يَظْلِمُونَ النَّاسَ وَيَبْغُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ أُولَئِكَ لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ * وَلَمَنْ صَبَرَ وَغَفَرَ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ لَمِنْ عَزْمِ الْأُمُورِThe one who receives the severest punishment on the day of resurrection will be he who kills a prophet, or who is killed by a prophet
أشدُّ الناس عذابًا يوم القيامة رجل قتل نبيًّا أو قتلَه نبيٌّThe Shaykh : May Allah reward you.
Al-Halabi: May Allah preserve you, O our Shaykh, and bless you.
The Shaykh: In any case, you look.
The questioner: Our professor, may Allah bless you, we mention... a session in which the common people asked you about academic theft and its limits.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner: I do not know. If you see this session suitable for you to speak about this, give us the pearls and precious things...
The Shaykh: No, I do not see it in such a session, but it will be in a session specifically for the original.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh: And you as well, if Allah wills.
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