What should one do when accused of being Wahhabi for calling people to the oneness of Allah?

Question:
Our brother also asks the Shaykh and says: There is a group of people who, when we call them to Allah and to abandoning the association of partners with Allah, accuse us of being Wahhabis. How should we face them, if you please?

Answer:
They are taught that Wahhabism is not a school of jurisprudence here. Wahhabism is obedience to Allah and His Messenger. Wahhabism calls to what Allah and His Messenger said. The Shaykh Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (may Allah have mercy on him), to whom Wahhabism is attributed, was a man who rose in the second half of the twelfth century calling people to what Allah and His Messenger said. He called people to the creed of the righteous Salaf, to following the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and walking in the path of his Companions in words and deeds.
He was Hanbali in his school of jurisprudence, but Allah guided him to call people to reforming the creed and abandoning the association of partners with Allah , and abandoning the religious innovations and superstitions that the Sufis or the people of kalam engaged in. He called to the creed of the righteous Salaf in practice and in belief, and he forbade the religious innovations of the people of kalam and of some of the Sufis who strayed from the right path into religious innovations. He does not have a school of jurisprudence that contradicts the school of the people of the Sunnah and the community; rather, he calls only to the school of the people of the Sunnah and the community.
So if you call someone to the oneness of Allah and forbid him from associating partners with Allah, and they say, "Wahhabi," then say, "Yes, I am a Wahhabi, and I am a Muhammadi. I call you to obey Allah and His Shari'ah. I call you to the oneness of Allah."
So if the one who calls to the oneness of Allah is a Wahhabi, then I am a Wahhabi. And if the one who calls to the oneness of Allah is a Nasibi, then I am a Nasibi. And if the one who calls to the oneness of Allah is a Shi'i, then I am a Shi'i. The important thing is calling to what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions were upon. Labeling people with names that make them averse to the call has no value.
It is obligatory for the believer to fear Allah and to be upright in the command of Allah, even if people say to him what they say, even if they say, "Hypocrite," even if they say, "Wahhabi," even if they say, "Shi'i," or even if they say such and such. If he knows that he is calling to the oneness of Allah and to obeying Allah and His Messenger as Allah and His Messenger said, then the troublemakers and those who drive people away with the labels they invent for him do not harm him. Just as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) was called by the disbelievers a "Sabian," and they called him "crazy," and they called him "a poet," and they called him "a soothsayer," and they called him "a sorcerer." That did not harm him. He continued in his call to Allah, taught people the oneness of Allah, and did not care about their saying to him, "You are a sorcerer" or "a soothsayer" or the like.
So this is how the followers of the truth are. It does not harm them if they are called "Wahhabi," or if they are called such and such, or if they are called "strict," or "one who drives people away," or "extremist," or "deep in thought," or such and such. They label them until people are driven away from them. This does not harm them. He must be patient and he must clarify the truth to people, and that he has nothing that contradicts the pure Shari'ah of Allah that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) brought.
So the Wahhabis are this. The Wahhabis are callers to the oneness of Allah and to obeying Allah and His Messenger. They do not have a new school of jurisprudence; rather, they are callers to the oneness of Allah and to following His Messenger Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). In jurisprudence, they are mostly on the school of the Hanbalis, except if they find something in the Hanbali school that contradicts the stronger position of the scholars, due to the existence of evidence that supports what the others said, they take the evidence. Yes.