Indeed,
from the distinguishing characteristics of the Salafi methodology and from the
affairs that distinguishes its callers is the importance given to purification
and cultivation. And from the greatest pillars of this purification is warning
against innovation and innovators.
The
Muslim nation has not split and become weak, nor have many people improperly
understood the religion, nor has their creed changed, except due to innovation
and those who call it – and this is something that no reasonable person denies.
For
this reason, the scholars, from the earliest times, have given importance to
warning against innovation and callers to innovation. So, these are important
principles that all of the scholars of the Sunnah, past and present,
highlighted.
Even
with this being said, the people of the Sunnah concerning this issue (i.e.
issuing warnings), and every other issue, are moderate. The people of the
Sunnah are between the extremely harsh Haddādiyyah and between the callers to
watering-down the religion, the Mumayyi’ah.
The
extremely harsh Haddādiyyah, [ you find that] the scholars are not safe from
their tongues. They speak ill of scholars such as Shaykh al-Albānī and [Shaykh]
Ibn al-‘Uthaymīn. And their followers, [until this day], are still speaking ill
of the scholars of the Sunnah. This is done in their books and on their
websites. And we ask Allāh for help.
And
as for those callers who water down the religion, they do not differentiate
between a person of the Sunnah and a person of innovation, what is important to
them is conglomeration under the party of so and so, or joining the group of
such and such.
As
for the people of the Sunnah, they are between these two extremes.1
Translated
by:
Abu Ādam Finch
6th of Dhul-Ḥijjah, 1435 AH
Footnotes:
1. Taken From: “Creed and
Methodology Principles and Benefits from al-Imām Aḥmad’s Usūl as-Sunnah” by Ḥasan
al-Irāqī (Read by Shaykh ‘Ubayd al-Jābirī), pg.
32.
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Source:
http://www.tawheedfirst.com/the-importance-of-purifying-the-religion/
