I don’t have issue with people making refutations or exposing what they believe in as the truth; but please always keep refutations honest. Always be truthful and sincere in your expositions. Knowledge is amaanah and you shall account for it.
There’s no benefit in attacking people just because of the hate you posses towards them, just because you consider them your religious adversaries. We v said it many times that the religion doesn’t belong to anyone’s father’s. It is Allah’s religion and He alone can claim the ownership. So kill this we vs them ego, for the sake of your qiyaamah. Be sincere and truthful in your dawah.
I came across a paragraph in the book of Sheikh Al-Qaradaawi (أمتنا بين قرنين) shared by a leading scholar of the Amukoko Salafiyyah fraternity. He indirectly claimed Sh. Al-Qaradaawi was referring to the likes of Salman Awdah, Safar Hawali, Aa’id al-Qarni as the neo-Salafis who rose in the year 1990. Meaning the 1990 Neo-Salafis are the Ikhwanis (Safar Hawali, Salman Awdah, Aa’id Qarni) as said by the leading scholar of the Ikhwanis (Sh. Al-Qaradaawi).
This brother was mischievous in his presentation of fact and lacks sincerity of knowledge. He read Al-Qaradaawi right; but because he wanted to reply another Nigeria caller they are fighting each other, he chose to drag Sheikh Al-Qaradaawi into their 1990 Salafiyyah combat.
Setting The History Straight
In the same book of Al-Qaradaawi quoted (أمتنا بين قرنين), Sheikh Al-Qaradaawi was talking about the Islamic movements that rose in this century, those which rose in each Islamic countries. Then he was talking about the Saudi Arabia.
In that same page quoted by the Amukoko preacher, Page 79 (as attached), before the paragraph the Amukoko preacher extracted out for his own mischievous plan, Sheikh Al-Qaradaawi mentioned at first the Al-Jaamiyyoon and Madakhilah who rose in Madeenah, championed by Sh. Rabee’ Al-Madkhali. And Al-Qaradaawi described them as extremist group with uncouth manners because they wage war towards every past scholars – like Imam Nawawi, Ibn Hajar, and contemporary scholars like Al-Qaradaawi himself, Al-Ghazali, et al – who doesn’t subscribe to their stances.
Al-Qaradaawi said:
“فمنهم( الجاميون) في المدينة المنورة – ربيع المدخلي و من انضم اليه – و هم يعلنونها حربا علي كل من سواهم من السابقين و اللاحقين و المعاصرين, و لم يسلم منهم أحد حتي مثل الإمام النووي و الحافظ ابن حجر و غيرهما ناهيك بالمعاصرين من أمثال حسن البنا و سيد قطب و المودودي و الغزالي و فهمي هويدي و محمد عمارة و يوسف القرضاوي و غيرهم علي غير منهج الإمامين ابن تيمية و ابن القيم…”
Meaning:
“And among them are (The “Jaamiyyun) in Medina – Rabi’u Al-Madkhali and those who aligned with him – and they have waged war towards everyone who oppose them, from the past, the later, and the contemporaries. And no one is safe from their uncouth behaviors, even the likes of Imam Nawawi, Ibn Hajar and others, not to mention the contemporaries like Hassan Al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Mawdudi, Ghazali, Fahmi Huwaidi, Muhammad Amara, Yusuf Al-Qaradaawi and others in contradiction to the methodology of the two Imams Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Al-Qayyim…”
Why did the Amukoko preacher hid the paragraph before the one he quoted? And also the ones after it whereby Sheikh Al-Qaradaawi also established the factions which broke out from the teachings of Sh. Ibn Baz, Al-Uthaymin and Al-albaani. It is because he wants to present his mischievous refutation, forgetting that the one who lives in glass house shouldn’t throw stones. You don’t read a book without understanding its context.
Al-Qaradawi defining the likes of Salman Awdah never described them with religious extremism, or declaring war towards any past or contemporary scholars. Rather he identified them with Islamic politics and activism against the American ingress into the Saudi land.
The faction of Salman Audah broke through to stop the extremism of the Rabiu’ Al-Madkhali and students of Sheikh Jaamiy who preach extremism. Al-Qaradaawi wasn’t referring to the faction of Salman Audah as the 1990 because they weren’t even the first faction to break through during that era. And that’s why Sheikh Al-Qaradaawi mentioned the Madakhilah (students and followers of Sheikh Rabiu’ Al-Madkhali) before the faction of Sheikh Salman Al-Awdah which he considered the right group on the path of the real Salaf.
This is the same Amukoko preacher that does rely on Ali Ashmawi secularist book on Ikhwan Muslimoon; he once claimed Ali Ashmawi was a secretary to Imam Hassan Al-Banaa, in which I corrected him immediately because Ali Ashmawi did not even meet Al-Banaa alive.
So using Al-Qaradaawi’s book as a reference to the Ikhwanis being the Neo-Salafis, it is in the same book Al-Qaradaawi described the followers of Madkkhali extremists who wage war towards past and contemporary scholars, as we all witness in our societies today.
Dear Amukoko preacher, always make refutation honest, next time.
Do you ask about Salafiyyah 1990? By the way I do not believe they exist. Maybe my next article will deal with that in shaa Allah.