This is the second and final part of the refutation of Abu Usamah Khaleefah by the noble Shaykh, Shaykh Faleh al-Harbi.
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AU Statement: and very seldom do we find people dealing with the creation in a way that?s going to cause the da?wah to grow, cause people to embrace the da?wah?
Shaykh Faleh comes in??
Shaykh Faleh: wait one moment, he didn?t say by way of the Shariah or by way of the Sunnah or of the Prophets. Shaykh ul-Islaam ibn Taymiyyah was asked about a shaykh who would try and make the people to repent and leave off sin. But this shaykh didn?t have an effect upon them. So this shaykh innovated for them As-samaa' (that which resembles an-nasheed of the Ikwaan ul-Muslimeen today). So this had an effect upon them and made them take heed. They stopped taking the wealth of the people (unjustly) and committing highway robbery, they use to drink, so they stopped drinking, they didn?t use to pray so they began to pray, they didn?t use to pray in the masjids so they began to pray in the masjids. So what did Shaykh ul-Islaam ibn Taymiyyah say?
"Indeed this shaykh is ignorant or handicapped and this way of his is incorrect. He is ignorant of the Shariah, so why did he change from the Sunnah to Bida'h? Because he is ignorant or handicapped. Meaning: he doesn?t have the strength that enables him to carry the Sunnah and convey it and explain it to the people with its meaning. So it is said, any way of guidance that Allaah hasn?t made for his slaves, then indeed there is harm and corruption in it, even if it doesn?t appear to us to be harmful."
So this brother, may Allaah guide him, he doesn?t explain in this way, he doesn?t say for example; by the way of the Sunnah or by the way of the Shariah or following the way of the Salaf and adhering to the way of the Prophets. So he (AU) only says it?s a way, a way which he indicates unrestrictedly, you can't perceive it! Maybe he is directing to his way and the way of Abul Hassan Al-Ma'ribi and those who oppose the manhaj of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah, and don?t adhere to the book of Allaah nor that of His Messenger. So their way (AU, Abul Hasan), no doubt applies to what Shaykh ul-Islaam spoke about.
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AU Statement: ?now many people think that it (jarh wa ta?deel) is fashionable, they think that it is fashionable, so you?ll find a man he doesn?t know the ahkaam (rulings) the nun saakin in tajweed, which is an obligation for him to know, Allah ordered us in the Qur?an 'Read the book properly.' That?s an order in the Qur?an to know about the nun saakin, everyone has to know how to read the Qur?an properly?but all you?ll find from people is jarh wa ta?deel, criticizing and praising, criticizing those who don?t deserve to be criticized, or he criticizes them in a way that they don?t deserve to be criticized, and he praises those who don?t deserve to be praised.
Shaykh Faleh: This kalaam (words unclear) ? what's the relationship between him not knowing the nun saakinah and knowing tajweed and him knowing his deen, his manhaj, and his walaa and baraa, he knows the Sunnah and avoids bid'ah, he adheres to the Sunnah, and he seeks knowledge and he understands the deen. Whats the connection between this and that? Whats the contradiction between the two? Why did he come with it? Because of deception! This is to confuse the people. And then even if he doesn?t know the nun sakinah and he reads properly and he doesn?t make grammatical mistakes, then his recitation is correct. Tajweed, its meaning is to make good. The Quraan is read (unclear word) ?and tajweed is to make the recitation good. So if he reads the Quraan and he makes his recitation good and he doesn?t make grammatical mistakes, but he doesn?t know nun sakinah or the rulings for tanween, idghaam, ithhaar, ikhfaa and iqlaab then his recitation is still correct. And if he was to know all of this, but he is not on the Sunnah, he doesn?t have walaa or baraa, he doesn?t concern himself with his aqeedah or Eemaan!? This is from the most corrupt of sayings! (AU's above statement).
And who's saying is more deceptive upon the people than these corrupt generalities that you are learning from these people, and regretfully they are upon a deviant manhaj. It (these corrupt principles) is what is corrupting for the people and their religion. It's not what he just mentioned! That's what is putting the people to trial against the manhaj of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah. So in reality there is no contradiction or attachment that if he doesn?t know tajweed then he doesn?t know other things, or if he doesn?t know tajweed he doesn?t have aqeedah or walaa and baraa or manhaj, subhanallaah, how corrupt this kalaam is!!
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AU Statement: And the Sheikh (Rabee) just to let you all know he is a scholar no doubt, and every scholar gets it right and they get it wrong, we do not make taqleed to any scholar in the religion of Islaam, we make it haraam (forbidden) for people to make taqleed al-a?maa (blind following) and we spoke about the characteristics of the Jews, and from their characteristics is their taqleed al-a?maa, the blind following of their leaders.
Shaykh Faleh: This kalaam about the Jews and their characteristics then we are going to pass by it (skip it). He (AU) went further than (intangible words) ..he went too far, so he is astray or ignorant, he doesn?t know what he is saying. His speech in praising Shaykh Rabee is for the purpose of coming with what he said before, that is he doesn?t blind follow, and so that it isn?t understood that he is directly defaming Shaykh Rabee, but the reality is that he is saying Shaykh Rabee is in error, and that the Shaykh isn?t upon guidance. But the guidance he (AU) is upon, is his (AU's) blind following of his Shaykh (Abul Hasan). Then he considers that he doesn?t blind follow! This in reality is also deception and a danger. And like we explained before, that the scholar is asked by the non-scholar. This is the obligation and its obligatory upon him (for the non-scholars to ask the scholars) even if it's called taqleed or Ittiba', since Allaah Has established the proof with the scholars.
And as for the ignorant, then the proof isn?t from them or their ignorance or those like them ? they are the ones who corrupt the deen (unclear words)?so this kalaam is misleading and is watered down! And he (AU) says blind following. Yes! Blind following is nothing but asking someone just. He calls it blind following. Call it whatever you want, this is the deen, this is the legislation!
Translated by Abu Khaleel Hasan al-Amriki
This message was edited by fath.ul-majeed on 12-31-02 @ 9:11 PM