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Question: What is the truth regarding Salafiyyah?
Answer: as-Salafiyyah is following the Salaf. That is because a person is either a Salafi or he is a Khalafi. Salafee is an ascription to the Salaf with the meaning that one ascribes to them. Ascribing oneself to them is not by way of lineage or by oneŭs blood line or by sex or race or even color. On the contrary it is an ascription to what they were upon concerning the religion of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Whenever he mentioned the splitting of the Ummah he explained that there would be a successful group from amongst them which is the Jamaaŭah. Then he explained that it was obligatory for the Ummah to be upon the likes of what the Prophet and the Companions were upon.
The companions are our Salaf concerning the religion. They are the ones who understood the religion. They were the ones who bore witness to the revelation and they understood it. They understood its commentary and its application therefore they are our predecessors. Whoever follows them in regards to their religion from the aspects of creed, acts of worship, the permissible and the forbidden, and business transactions then he is a true Salafi. This means that he practices his religion, his devotion to it, his path to it, his belief in it, and its methodology as the Prophet (may the peace & blessings of Allah be upon) used to.
So as-Salafiyyah is following the example of the companions, to emulate them and to imitate them. Whatever the companions did one does. Whatever the companions left he leaves. Whatever the companions believed in he believes in it. Whatever they did not believe in and renounced he renounces, etc. If one is like this then he is a Salafi.
As for the one who opposes the companions then he is like the one Allah the Mighty & Majestic said about: {So they opposed those after them in opposition and wasted their prayerŭ}. Those who opposed are the Khalaf who were the ones that opposed their predecessors. They opposed them based on what they were upon concerning the religion and its methodology. So whoever opposes the companions then he is a Khalfi or a Khalafee. The one who acts in accordance with the companions is a Salafi irrespective of the time he lives, the place he is from, or his nationality.
I ask Allah to establish us and you and that he gather us and you under the party of the Noble Salaf who are the companions may Allah be pleased with them and they with Him.
Shaykh Falaah bin Ismaŭeel Mandakaar (hafithahullah)
Translated by Aboo ŭImraan al-Mekseekee-may Allah guide him
Arabic source: http://www.mandakar.com/FatawaDetails.asp?ID=240
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sajid_chauhan_81
09-12-2008 @ 11:44 PM
