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Advice does not necessitate that you keep company with them, and advice is to be given at fixed times. As for your keeping company with them with the argument that you are advising them, then if you were advising them there would be seen a change in their actions, and a difference in that which they were upon. So if you say, for example, that you advise them, but they don't listen to you or accept from you, then why do you keep company with them, and come and go with them? If they do not listen to you, then you do not come and go with them or sit with them. Rather, when we see that you come and go with them and keep company with them, we are aware that you are one of them.

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And many walk with the people of innovation with the argument that they are benefitting them? O my brother - they have not benefitted from the Scholars, so how will they benefit from you?!! They rejected the statements of Ibn Baaz (d. 1420H), and the statements of al-Albanee (d. 1420H), al-'Uthaimeen (d. 1421H) and others from the Imams of Islam, and will take from you?!! This is delusion and, ninety-nine out of a hundred times, you will end up from their followers.