I spoke about the Qadiyyan, the Baha'is, and the Sufis, but why have we not heard you speak about the Ahbash, which is a new phenomenon in the country?
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The questioner : You spoke, O our Shaykh, about the Qadiyyan, the Baha'is, and the Sufis, but we have not heard anything about the very new phenomenon in the country, which is the Ahbash?
The Shaykh : By Allah, the Ahbash appearing in the country is also new. When we were in Damascus, we met their well-known Shaykh, Abdullah al-Habashi, and we saw that he deviated from the Sunnah, but his deviation was like that of many Shaykhs. However, after my migration from Damascus to here, it reached us that the group, meaning, deviated greatly. I do not know if this deviation stems from the Shaykh himself, so that we do not wrong people, or if it stems from the Shaykh's followers without the Shaykh's involvement. I do not know anything about them directly; I know something directly about their Shaykh, but it is not something that contradicts the general atmosphere present in the Islamic world regarding distancing oneself from following the Book and the Sunnah, and regarding the fanaticism for one school of jurisprudence over the other schools.The Shaykh : Abdullah al-Habashi is one of those who has no knowledge of the authentic and weak hadith, and he speaks of good and bad religious innovation. As for what we hear today, that they permit free mixing between girls and boys, and that the woman takes her freedom in her clothing, and that it is not obligatory for her to wear the jilbab mentioned in the Noble Qur'an... from the Sunnah, this is something I did not know about the Shaykh himself, nor did I come across anything from his means by which he clarifies his opinion on these legal rulings. As for him in terms of creed, he is an Ash'ari, a follower of the later generations, deviating from the creed of the righteous Salaf, and there is no doubt about this. As for this new thing that arrived later in Lebanon, and then the infection spread, as I was informed, to this country.
The student : ... .
The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : ... .
The Shaykh : ... So, in truth, I have not looked into anything of their writings in this regard; it is only what reached us, and we ask Allah to protect us from the evil of all of them.
The student: Amen.
The Shaykh : By Allah, the Ahbash appearing in the country is also new. When we were in Damascus, we met their well-known Shaykh, Abdullah al-Habashi, and we saw that he deviated from the Sunnah, but his deviation was like that of many Shaykhs. However, after my migration from Damascus to here, it reached us that the group, meaning, deviated greatly. I do not know if this deviation stems from the Shaykh himself, so that we do not wrong people, or if it stems from the Shaykh's followers without the Shaykh's involvement. I do not know anything about them directly; I know something directly about their Shaykh, but it is not something that contradicts the general atmosphere present in the Islamic world regarding distancing oneself from following the Book and the Sunnah, and regarding the fanaticism for one school of jurisprudence over the other schools.The Shaykh : Abdullah al-Habashi is one of those who has no knowledge of the authentic and weak hadith, and he speaks of good and bad religious innovation. As for what we hear today, that they permit free mixing between girls and boys, and that the woman takes her freedom in her clothing, and that it is not obligatory for her to wear the jilbab mentioned in the Noble Qur'an... from the Sunnah, this is something I did not know about the Shaykh himself, nor did I come across anything from his means by which he clarifies his opinion on these legal rulings. As for him in terms of creed, he is an Ash'ari, a follower of the later generations, deviating from the creed of the righteous Salaf, and there is no doubt about this. As for this new thing that arrived later in Lebanon, and then the infection spread, as I was informed, to this country.
The student : ... .
The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : ... .
The Shaykh : ... So, in truth, I have not looked into anything of their writings in this regard; it is only what reached us, and we ask Allah to protect us from the evil of all of them.
The student: Amen.
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