The Shaykh advises the student to refrain from deriving rulings regarding people and from pursuing their mistakes (Discussion)

The Shaykh : ... from the word "apparently."
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : But when you say "apparently so," do we have an apparent and a hidden reality, or do we judge by the apparent and Allah takes care of the hidden?
The student : We judge by the apparent.

The Shaykh: All right.
The student : But what I mean by the apparent.

The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The student : May Allah preserve you, I mean I followed the man's situation, and we ask Allah to guide us and him to good...

The Shaykh : What I told you seems to me, I told you just now: that you are pursuing [mistakes].
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : Words or tapes of this man.
The student : That he.

The Shaykh : ... with him, so I asked you: is he with us on the Book and the Sunnah, or what? You said "apparently."
The student : By the apparent, I mean, may Allah bless you, that he is, if Allah wills, a Salafi in his belief and he professes it to Allah.

The Shaykh : No, no, you do not say it that way.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : You do not say it that way.
The student : What do we say, O Shaykh?

The Shaykh : Because I did not ask you about his belief.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : I asked: is he with us on the Book and the Sunnah and the methodology of the righteous predecessors, or not? You said "apparently," and you frightened me with these words and increased my fear when you said "his belief."
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : This is what I fear, may Allah bless you.
The student : The point, to be completely frank, is that there is a blurring between the creed and the Sunnah and the methodology. In fact, when these personalities are highlighted, and other personalities are hidden, their realities are concealed. No doubt that, at the very least, we doubt even the style, so we say: we consider him to be on the right path. But there are errors that show he is biased toward a faction.

The Shaykh : Biased.
The student : Toward a faction.

The Shaykh : Toward a faction.
The student : Yes, this is what we can.

The Shaykh : Okay, what is the faction?
The student : For example, the prominent personalities in the Islamic world, which we mean by the activists. And I do not accuse this person directly, nor do I say... the least we can say is that he is influenced by these men.

The Shaykh : Okay, the prominent personalities.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : Like what?
The student : Like, for example, the Afghan personalities. I mean, when the Kunar fitnah occurred, no one spoke, then the fitnah subsided and.

The Shaykh : O Abu Yusuf... the advice: leave off deriving rulings, and the texts are sufficient for you.
The student : The texts, we say, may Allah bless you, meaning.

The Shaykh: Did you understand me?
The student : Yes, yes.

The Shaykh : Meaning that he spoke here and did not speak there, this is deriving a ruling.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : And it is not permissible for you to expand in deriving rulings.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : To pursue the mistakes of these people.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : What they say is sufficient for you.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : You just mentioned, may Allah bless you.
The student : And may He reward you.

The Shaykh : That he speaks well of al-Turabi.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : So this is sufficient.

The Shaykh : As for deriving a ruling, you might be correct.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : You might be wrong.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : So he did not speak.
The student : May Allah reward you with good, and we accepted it, and we accepted this advice.

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.
The student : What happened is that this man praised al-Turabi and highlighted him, saying that he is an accepted fundamentalist personality, for example, considered by the West, with the testimony of the West, that he is a fundamentalist. This is what I want to reach.

The Shaykh: All right.
The student : And I will let you hear it, with the permission of Allah.

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : This is what I want.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : Something else.
The student : And others, O my Shaykh.

The Shaykh : And what is your opinion now, what do we do with the...
The student : Allah is the Helper, may Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : Please, go ahead. Yes.