Saturday 30 June 2018

EXPLANATIONS OF WHAT MUSLIMS SHOULD ADHERE TO







With this topic I wish to advise all the Muslims, especially those that are deceived by beautiful, false speech and methodologies in calling to Islam WHICH ARE FAR FROM THE TRUTH, THAT THEY WAKE U FROM THEIR SLEEP AND SLUMBER, and that they should call those hizbees to truth. Truly, the wise person is he who strives for the truth seeking what is right whichever path they tread and adhere to the correct manhaj without inclining to vain desires and sin.
The supporter of the Sunnah, Imam Asbahaanee said, may Allaah have mercy on him;
‘…we do not see anyone inclining to desires or innovation in religion except we find him confused and dis-oriented as if his heart is dead, prevented from speaking the truth.’
So here I am between these ages, advising and explaining what every Muslim should adhere to. Therefore from the doors of affiliation to the Salaf are:
SINCERITY TO ALLAH: And what will make you know what sincerity is? It is making Allah one in intention and obedience. It is said: “Forgetting the comprehension of the creation due to beholding The Creator.”
As for the matter of sincerity to Allah, there is the statement of The Lord of the creation:
 “…then worship Allah sincerely for His sake, Truly, for Allah alone deserves sincere worship”. {Quraan 39 verses 2-3}

Explanations of what Muslims should adhere to



With this topic I wish to advise all the Muslims, especially those that are deceived by beautiful, false speech and methodologies in calling to Islam, WHICH ARE FAR FROM THE TRUTH, THAT THEY WAKE U FROM THEIR SLEEP AND SLUMBER, and that they should call those hizbees to the truth. Truly, the wise person is he who strives for the truth seeking what is right whichever path they tread and adhere to the correct manhaj without inclining to vain desires and sin.
The supporter of the Sunnah, Imam Asbahaanee said, may Allaah have mercy on him;
‘…we do not see anyone inclining to desires or innovation in religion except we find him confused and dis-oriented as if his heart is dead, prevented from speaking the truth.’
So here I am between these ages, advising and explaining what every Muslim should adhere to. Therefore from the doors of affiliation to the Salaf are:
SINCERITY TO ALLAH: And what will make you know what sincerity is? It is making Allah one in intention and obedience. It is said: “Forgetting the comprehension of the creation due to beholding The Creator.”
As for the matter of sincerity to Allah, there is the statement of The Lord of the creation:
 “…then worship Allah sincerely for His sake, Truly, for Allah alone deserves sincere worship”. {Quraan 39 verses 2-3}

Monday 26 June 2017



                             WORDS OF THE SCHOLARS CONCERNING HIZBIYAH AND ITS RULINGS.  
Taking from the etiquettes of the scholars, that is, we do not issue a ruling about a matter or judge a case until we research the matter, or case, from the verdicts of the greater scholars. This is not a form of blind following, it is a form of etiquette and good manners and in order for the noble reader to know that I did not adopt in this book statements that were not preceded by a scholar or a school of thought which an Imam did not say, nay, because we are the most zealous of people in following the advice of Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal Ash-Shaybaanee, on him be the mercy of Allah, to his student Aboo Al-Hasan Al-Maymoonee when he said: “O Maymoonee! Do not speak on issues which you have no imam to support it, because the predecessors did not leave behind for the successors mere talk.
1 Imam Ibn Jareer Al-Tabaree  Said: in connection with the hadeeth of Hudayfah bn Yamaan, may Allah be pleased with him:”and in the hadeeth when there is no imam for the people and the people divide and become Ahzaab, then do not follow anyone in division, and withdraw from all of them if you are able, fearing that you fall into evil”. I say: “and this situation is what sets hizbiyyah aright for it is division and differences and furthermore, leaving the Muslim congregation to numerous types of partisanship.
2 Sheikh al- Islam Ibn Taymiyyah RAH said: “and it is not for the teachers that they should divide the people and stir up in them hatred and enmity between them, nay, they should be like brothers helping one another in goodness and piety as Allah says: “and help one another in goodness and piety and do not help one another in sin and transgression and fear Allah”. And he also said: “it is not for anyone to affiliate himself to a scholar, befriending and following him, and taking others as enemy, nay, upon him is to befriend every person from among the people of faith and eeman, and whoever is known for his piety from among the scholars and other than them, and do not specifically choose anyone, increasing love for him except it is clear that his eeman is more and so is his piety, and we give precedence to what Allah and His messenger give precedence to, and we prefer what Allah and His messenger prefer”. And he also said: “and it is not for anyone to take a covenant from anyone in agreeing to what he wants, and befriending who he befriends, and hating who he hates, nay, whoever does this is like Genghis Khan, his example is like one who takes those who agree with them, a truthful one and a friend, and those who disagree with them, an enemy and a transgressor, nay, upon them and those who follow them is the covenant of Allah and his messenger, that they obey Allah and his messenger and do what Allah and His messenger commanded…”
3 Imam Muhammad bn Alee bn Muhammad Ash-Shawkhaanee said: concerning Allah’s words: “Verily, those who split and divide their religion and they are factions, you have nothing to do with them, verily, their affair is with Allah, then He will inform them that which they used to do”. And it was said that this is a general verse for all the infidels and all those who innovate and bring to the religion what Allah did not command, and this is correct, because the statement implies all and sundry and groups among the people of the book (Jews and Christians) and the groups of polytheists, and other than them from those who innovate among the Muslims.
4 The verdict of Sheikh Abdul-Aziz bn Abdullahi bn Baaz and his deputy Sheikh Abd-Razaaq ‘Afeefee, may Allah have mercy on both of them: from the text of the verdict: “It is not permissible to divide the Muslims in their religion into groups and factions, some cursing others, and some striking the necks of others, because this division is from what Allah prohibited on those who invented it and follow their desires, and the person who does this act is promised a great punishment and Allah’s messenger is free of such a person. Allah, glorified is He said: “And hold on to the rope of Allah (the Qur’an, Islam, Sunnah etc) all together and do not divide”. Till the statement of Allah: “…and do not be like those who split and differed after what came to them of clear evidences and for those is a great punishment.”Also, Allah said: “Verily, those who split their religion and are sects, you(O Muhammad) have nothing to do with them in the least, verily, their affair is with Allah, then He will inform them of that which they used to do. Whoever comes with a good deed, for him is ten like it and whoever comes with an evil deed, he will be recompensed with that which is similar to it and they will not be wronged…”
5 And the great Sheikh, Muhammad bn Saalih Al-Uhaymeen may Allah have mercy on him was asked: “Is there any text from the book of Allah or the Sunnah of His Prophet containing permissibility of numerous Islamic groups?” And the Sheikh answered: “There is nothing in the Book or Sunnah that permits numerous groups and parties, nay, verily, in the book of Allah and the Sunnah is that which dispraises such. Allah glorified and exalted be He said: “Verily, those who split their religion and are groups and sects, you (O Muhammad) have nothing to do with them in the least, verily, their affair is with Allah, then He will inform them that which they used to do”.(6;159). And He said: “…each group rejoicing with that which is with them” (30; 32). And there is no doubt that these sects negate that which Allah commanded. Nay, Allah urged against dividing in His statement: “…and verily, this your religion (of Islamic Monotheism) is one religion, and I am your Lord, so keep your duty to me” (23; 52). And especially, when we look into the traces of these divisions and groups, we see that all these groups and all these factions  slander each other, abuse each other and they declare each other wrongdoers, and perhaps even greater than that and I see these groups are in error”. And he also said: and the statement of some of them:”it is not possible to call to righteousness except under a group”.  We say: this is not correct, nay, verily the call to righteousness every time man is low-spirited is under the book of Allah and the Sunnah of his Messenger  following the path of the Prophet and the rightly guided Caliphs. And he also said, concerning deviation and splitting: “…there is no doubt that partisanship in the religion of Allah is forbidden and we should beware of it from the statement of Allah”: “…and be not like those who divided and differed amongst themselves after the clear proofs had come to them. It is they for whom there is an awful torment” (3: 105). And also the statement of Allah: “Verily, those who divide their religion and break up into sects (all kinds of religious sects), you (O Muhammad  SAW) have no concern in them in the least. Their affair is only with Allah, Who then will tell them what they used to do” (6:159). Then he said, “It is not permissible for the Muslim nation to split into groups, each group having a methodology strange and different from the methodology of others, nay, it is compulsory to unite on one religion and on one methodology”. And it is the guidance of the Prophet and his rightly guided Caliphs and the companions from the statement of the Prophet : “upon you is my Sunnah and the Sunnah of the rightly guided caliphs after me, hold on to it and bite it with your molars {that is, hold firmly to the Sunnah}, and beware of newly invented matters [in the religion], for every innovation is misguidance”. And it is not from the guidance of the Prophet  and the rightly guided Caliphs that the Muslim nation divide into groups and parties, each group having a leader and methodology.
6 Sheikh Saalih bn Fawzaan Al-Fawzaan said in his fatawa: “And these groups and this division happening today has nothing to do with Islam, nay, it is strongly forbidden in Islam. And Islam commands that we unite on the monotheistic belief, and the single methodology of Islam, and the single nation of Muslims just as Allah commands, glorified and exalted is He. And splitting into groups and factions is the plot of the shayateen of jinn and mankind of this nation. And the kuffaar and munaafiqeen do not cease to instill in the Muslim nation division. The Jews of old said: “Believe in the morning in that which is revealed to the believers, and reject it at the end of the day, so that they may turn back”. That is, that the Muslims turn back from their religion if they see you turn back there from. (Q3;72)
7 The great Sheikh, the Muhaddith of the era, the erudite scholar, Muhammad Naasir Al-Albaanee was asked, may Allah have mercy on him, about the numerous groups and sects and he answered: “Verily, there is a lot we have to say about this issue, but by Allah’s leave, I shall summarize it as follows: it is not permissible to have different groups in the Muslim congregation, each group having its own methodology and each group having its own leader, these leaderships enforcing their authority on its adherents, for this leads to increase in division and differences amongst the Muslims and making partisanship seem natural as Allah says: “Of those who split their religion (that is, who left the true Islamic Monotheism) and became sects, (that is, they invented new things into the religion {bid’ah}, and followed their vain desires), each sect rejoicing in that which is with it. (30:32).And there comes from the hadith of Hudhayfah bn Al-Yamaan in Saheeh Bukhaari and Saheeh Muslim, he said: “he people used to ask the Prophet about good and I used to ask him about evil out of fear of falling into it”, and he asked a lot of questions of great importance concerning the good they {the companions} were upon and if after that good there would be evil? The Prophet answered that there would be something of evil, and after that evil, there would be good, and I asked him also if there would be any evil after that good and he said “yes”. And I continued asking until the Prophet said that there would be groups and factions and upon you is to bite on the root of a tree, and not to be near any of these groups and factions, except there was a leader for all the Muslims, and if there was a leader, then it would be necessary to follow him, and if not, then go away from all those groups, even if you had to bite down on the roots of a tree. This is the meaning of this hadeeth found in Saheeh Bukharee and Muslim. And that means that one should not form alliance with groups and I say concerning that: it is necessary for the Muslim nation to co-operate, all of them; however, based on the solid foundation, from the Book and the Sunnah and the methodology of the Pious Predecessors.
8 The Sheikh, the erudite scholar, the Muhaddith of Yemen, Abu Abdillahi Muqbil Al-Haadee Al-Waadi’ee, may Allah have mercy on him said: “Verily, we do not call a group from the various groups, a sound group until it forsakes all its ideas and opinions to the book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet SAW as Allah said: “And in whatsoever you differ, the decision thereof is with Allah (He is the ruling Judge) [42:10}. And He also said: “…And if you differ in anything amongst yourselves, refer it to Allah and His Messenger, if you believe in Allah and the last day. That is better and more suitable for final determination {4:59}.
Had I not feared talking at long length, I would have presented more verdicts of the great scholars. But for now, it would suffice to know without a doubt for every intelligent, seeker of truth, non-adherent to a person or society or group that partisanship is haraam totally, because it leads to fanaticism, and it is a path to disunity and a means of corruption of the heart, a destruction of the people and whoever refuses to acknowledge that, then he has rendered his intellect null and void, and he befools himself. And we shall clarify the matter and make mention of the harms and dangers of hizbiyyah if Allah wills. And verily, a poet spoke well when he said:
The intellect is not sound at all                
If it requires evidence that it is daytime.

                           EXPLANATION OF SOME ARABIC TERMS

HIZBIYYAH---------------------Partisanship and affiliation to a sect or group
HIZBEE--------------------------A Partisan
WALAA--------------------------Association or Affiliation to a group
BARAA---------------------------Dissociation or lack of affiliation to a group

Tuesday 2 July 2013

THE DANGERS IN FANATICISM

                             THE HARMS OF HIZBIYYAH AND ITS DANGERS.

 Whoever possesses insight and a sound mind will realize that hizbiyyah is evil and a source of corruption on the earth, harm and enmity between the people. Now, I shall point out some dangers of partisanship in Islam, so come along with me:
1 That affiliation with a group and dissociation from others is a thing that is a matter of belief, therefore, this affiliation (walaa) and dissociation (baraa) is done for other than Allah. So, the people of hizbiyyah call to their groups and parties and not to Allah, glorified and exalted is He. Though it is not permissible in the religion to affiliate or dissociate from a thing other than what Islam dictates and to concentrate all one’s attention to a name or man or group as Sheikh Ibn Taymiyyah mentioned in his fatawa.  And this is the apex of the hizbee in walaa and baraa. It is opposition to Allah and His Messenger SAW which is equivalent to hizbiyyah and Islam erases completely all this.
2 That hizbiyyah leads to enmity, fighting and hate between the hizbees, as the Messenger SAW explained in the hadith of Thawbaan RA. He said: “Verily, Allah contracted the world for me and I saw its east and west and verily, my nation will acquire its dominion. And I have been given the red and the white (gold and silver) and I asked my Lord that my nation should not perish due to famine and not to be overcome by an enemy, taking their money and my Lord said: O Muhammad! Verily when I decree a matter, it must surely come to pass. Your nation will not be overcome by famine, or by an oppressive enemy, taking away their money from their environs but they will destroy one another and take each other into captivity. And bear in mind O noble reader that:
1 The Khawaarij when they pledged allegiance to a man from amongst them, they declared the Muslims to be disbelievers, nay, they made the spilling of the Muslims’ blood permissible and taking their wealth, and Allah messenger confirms this in his statement: “they kill the Muslims and call on the idols” and they persist in this tribulation until this present day.
2 The Rawaafid when they started their hizbiyyah in Koofah and other places, they spread treachery and evil, and when they became stronger, they put an end to the Abbaasid rule. And what about the treachery of Ibn Alqamee upon a lot of the Muslims, and what the Muslims have faced from the varieties of punishment from the shee’ah of the past and present and their assistance of the jews and christians and other than them against the Muslims. And the dangers of these two groups on the Muslims are wide.
3 Verily hizbiyyah is an excuse for calling to Allah and doing dawah for his cause under the guise of membership to a particular group or society. Then look how hizbiyah conceals the membership today just as how they restricted it in the past.
4 The (weak) measure of uprightness in the eyes of those who practice hizbiyyah just as Hasan Al-Banaa said in one of his books (Majmooah-Rasaa’il): “We measure with the scale of our call (and none else), then whoever agrees with us, then he is welcome, and whoever does not, then we are free of him.”
5 The permission of hizbiyyah in Islam is opening a door, without a doubt, that allows upholding the symbols of Islam (apparently) but dividing it in reality. And how many do we see of misguided, nay, apostate callers who are surrounded by the Muslims, and only Allah knows their number, so they take them away from the light of Islam to the darkness of misguidance. And we see many of these groups rushing to parliamentary posts in many countries that do not rule by the law of Allah, nay, we see them entering into democracy and they seek large numbers even though these large numbers are upon a satanic call. “…shall we make the Muslims like the criminals, what is wrong with you? How judge you?”
6 Hizbiyah is a reason for the denial of the truth which is with the other party, and the people of hizbiyah wish to make their partisanship a substitute for Islam which Allah favored man with, for verily, hizbiyah makes the sight blind and the hizbee does not see the truth even if the truth is glaring. This corrupts the natural disposition and lessens the intellect and is tribulation for the Muslim nation.
7 And how many a group or sect is built on the raising up of politics for the reason of leading the Muslims but they reap nothing but the declination of the da’wah. And the greatest evidence of this is what transpires amongst the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Syria and the battles in the Middle East, and also, those groups that call to takfeer in most of the Islamic countries.
8 And how many a group or society ascribes itself symbolically to a ‘name’ and ‘symbols’ and by so doing, ascribe symbols alien to Islam to their society and what is worse, they make it compulsory on their members to adhere strictly to these names and symbols.
9 And how many a group or society conceals the truth with their disease of fanaticism and seeking to ward off calamities from their midst, and for this reason, they weaken the tawheed…as for the one who calls to the tawheed of Allah from amongst the scholars, then according to the hizbiyeen, he is a divider of the rank and a seeker of calamity. This is because tawheed is not the most important thing to them, rather, what is important to them is their love for politics and haakimiyyah (establishing the Islaamic state) and stirring up emotions in the people, which is the trait of the khawaarij, past and present.
10 Hizbiyyah promotes the affiliation of individuals to societies and groups in the form of “organizing a troop for the purpose of leading them” not for calling people to Islam and their goal is to transform the individuals with the purpose of enslaving the people not for calling to Islam.
11 Hizbiyyah establishes submission to rules by spreading beliefs amongst the people and preventing sound reasoning and criticizing those upon the truth

12 And how many groups and societies are there that turn the minds from the truth and gnaw at the body of the Muslim nation from inside, and separate the congregation and innovate in the religion by turning away from the Sunnah.

Friday 14 June 2013

SIGNS OF PARTISANSHIP IN AN INDIVIDUAL

              THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PARTISANSHIP AND FANATICISM

It goes without saying that partisanship and fanaticism are interwoven, one cannot be separated from the other, because the result of partisanship is fanaticism. If partisanship is found, then it is inevitable that bigotry will coexist. And that which the scholars use as a basis is that every person who does partisanship and differs, then it is inevitable that we close its door, and that the end does not justify the means with us, that is, with us Muslims, but the means justifies the end.       
                                       
                                   SIGNS OF PARTISANSHIP IN AN INDIVIDUAL   

After it is clear that partisanship in Islam is forbidden and that it results in fanaticism, the souls will learn without a doubt the distinctive qualities of the one who adorns himself with partisanship.
I shall now point out some signs that can be recognized in a partisan whether he is a leader or a follower and they are:
1 His affiliation with a group or specific society with a specific methodology, differing from the methodology of the pious predecessors and the people of hadeeth like The Muslim Congress(TMC) and Jamma’at at-Tadaamun in Nigeria and Jamaa’atu Tableegh, and his helping his group or society in truth or falsehood. And concerning Jamaa’atu Tableegh, many foolhardy youths utilize the fataawa of some of the people of knowledge especially that of Sheikh Muhammad bn Saalih Al-Uthaymeen, may Allah have mercy on him when he praised them because the Kuffaar accepted Islam from their hands, and the sinners repented due to their efforts, and their cheerful faces, and these are some of the things the Sheikh praised Jamaa’atu Tableegh for. I say: these are not specific to Jamaa’atu Tableegh alone but Allah grants it for any of His slaves He wishes. For how many a prophet did no single soul submit to Islam at his hands, and how many a sinner did not repent due to his advice?  And the best evidence is our prophet Muhammad SAW with his uncle, the father of Imam Alee, may Allah be pleased with him, Abu Taalib whom the prophet SAW strived his utmost to call him to guidance but he was not guided as was in the decree of Allah before, that he would not be guided, for the matter of guidance is from Allah and not in the hands of anybody. Then the Sheikh corrected his statement about Jamaa’atu Tableegh with numerous statements some of which are: “…however they have little knowledge and understanding of the religion”. I say, what could be worse than this? Especially one who takes it upon himself to call others to Allah, glorified and exalted is He. And possessing knowledge is a prerequisite to calling others to Allah as Allah says: Say (O Muhammad SAW):”This is my way; I invite unto Allah (i.e. to the Oneness of Allah-Monotheism) with sure knowledge, I and whosoever follows me (also must invite others to Allah i.e. to the oneness of Allah-monotheism) with sure knowledge. (12:108). And it is not possible that a man be a caller to Islam until he is an Aalim (Scholar) in what he is calling to, and it is compulsory on the callers that they learn first and act on what they learn, then call the people”. End quote. And this statement manifests the reality of the Tableeghs in Saudi Arabia, then if this is their reality, then what about the Tableeghs in other countries and non Arab-speaking countries. And it is an amazing thing, what the Tableeghs are upon especially in Nigeria. They have uneducated and fanatic adherents. And what is even more surprising is there renouncing of true knowledge, just as one of them said, and I choose not to mention his name: “How much knowledge did the prophet SAW have before the beginning of his call to Islam!?”
Verily this statement makes my skin crawl because I have never heard the likes of this statement, and that which we hear also is the statement: “How much knowledge did the Sahaaba have before calling to Islam?” this is an indication of the ignorance such people have of the religion. And a mention of what the Jamaa’atu Tableegh are upon of their principles, part of which is knowledge, even though in reality it is knowledge of assembling people to their group, and not the knowledge of the Sharee’ah which stems from the Qur’an and the Sunnah and what the pious predecessors were upon. And we also mentioned earlier that among the principles of the Mu’tazilah is Adl although there is no justice in them when they deny Qadar, and there is no Tawheed in them while they deny the attributes of Allah, and there is no commanding of good and forbidding of evil in them while they revolt against their leaders.
2 His sitting and walking with one of the aforementioned groups or other than them from the people of deviation in aqeedah and actions, whether it is a group or an individual, following or being followed. Because Al-Mustapha SAW said: “souls are like recruited soldiers, what is good from them is agreed upon and what is wrong from them is differed upon.
3 His avoidance and denial of the callers of what the people of the narrations are upon, and his denial in obeying Allah and His messenger SAW and the leader of the Muslims, and walking on the path of the Salaf.
4 His criticism of Ahlus-Sunnah and turning his face when he hears reprimand of partisanship of the time and the companions of secret organizations and hidden coalitions.
5 And from the signs of partisanship is their strong love for songs (nasheeds) and theatrical performances, and their passionate urge of it and its adherents, and most of the traits found in the ranks of The Muslim Brotherhood is their love for their judges, and their party of wretched youths who are deluded, and among the women, the weak and deluded, may Allah return all of them to the truth. And these songs and nasheeds are a remnant of the ways of the Sufis which is present among the ikhwaani muslimeen and their groups due to the differences between them. And for this reason, Sheikh Saalih Al-Fawzaan, may Allah preserve him, was asked about the mention of many Islamic nasheeds and he answered: “this nomenclature is not correct, it is a new name and there is nothing called ‘Islamic nasheed’ among the books of the Salaf, and the people of knowledge hardly considered their statements, and what is known is that the sufis took nasheeds as a part of the religion and they listened to it, and in our times when different groups have emerged, it has become an issue for every group, songs for stirring up emotions and hence were named Islamic nasheeds. This name is not correct and as such, it is not permissible to take these nasheeds as a part of Islam, and spreading it amongst the people, and with Allah is all success.
Also, Sheikh Ahmad bn Yahya bn Muhammad An-Najmee, may Allah have mercy on him said: “the spread of nasheeds night and day, i.e, singing them, and I do not say listening to poetry is haram for verily, the prophet listened to poetry, but these people make as a methodology in these songs a madhhab of which the Sufis are upon, in their singing which stirs up emotions”.
6 And from their signs is that they see that the warning of bid’ah in the religion necessitates denial of assisting the Muslims, that is, they see that if one should speak negatively about the principles in their groups which do not agree with the Qur’an and the Sunnah, that person is trying to cause division in the religion. And they say: ‘”he busies himself with the mistakes of the muslim brotherhood and he keeps quiet about the enemies of the world”. And one of the principles of the muslim brotherhood is: “rebuking hardens the heart”. But where is their adherence to the pious predecessors, among the nation that Allah is pleased with in regard to their innovated stance which deviates from the right way?
7 Their praising and extolling the leaders of their societies and they imagine it is compulsory to attach their hopes on them.
8 And from their signs is the division of the religion into peel and core, that is, they consider some aspects of the religion as primary like prayer and fasting and neglect others saying it is secondary such as keeping the beard and not dragging the lower garment, whereas the above mentioned are all part of the religion of Islam. And it is surprising that these groups busy the people with politics of the time and neglect the politics of the religion. We say: “it is incumbent on you before you start calling people to politics that you first educate the people as regards answering the call of Allah and his messenger by using the Qur’an and the Sunnah”.
9 Their piling of large numbers of people without paying attention to the foundation which this group is built, and their making of a congregation of people, each with a different nature. So, this one is an Ash’aaree and the other is a Maatureedee and the next is a Sufi, and the fourth is a Murji’ee, and maybe a Hizbee and maybe a Takfeeree who adheres to the methodology of the Khawaarij, and they compile corruption in a single unit, and their beliefs are different. This is not so for those who believe in what the pious predecessors believe in and adhere to what they were upon. And from the principles of the Salafee call is: “…education and knowledge before piling large numbers”. While the deviant groups use the erroneous principle: “let us unite on what we agree on and excuse each other in our differences”, and this principle is in opposition to the sharee’ah.
10 Secrecy in actions: And among the traits of Hizbiyyah is practicing secrecy in actions of da’wah. And among the signs of the people of misguidance is their meeting in secret hiding from the eyes of the people, saying things in secret which they cannot say in the open and likewise doing things in secret which they cannot do in the open, so they are like a two-faced mole and the prophet SAW said: “verily, the worst of people are the double-faced people who come to these with a face and to those with another face”. Whoever reads the history of the people of knowledge will find that this was not their way. Imam Al-Qurtubi said: “the two faced person is the worst of people, for his case is like the hypocrite causing corruption on the earth”.
We should know that the aqeedah of the people of innovation and their statements does not manifest except with a strong authority, or a stubborn devil assisting them, deceiving the people with their innovations. Or compelling the people with his sword or his whip or helping them with wealth in order to deviate from the path of Allah, strongly devoted to his innovation causing the Muslims to turn on their heels in face of the enemy after their love for the obedience of Allah. We ask Allah for safety from these people.
  And a speaker amongst them said: “…secret da’wah is established in the actions of the prophet SAW when he called the people in secret in Makkah. The answer to this is in a number of angles:
1 This evidence is false because the Prophet was commanded to proclaim the religion and manifest it as Allah says: “therefore proclaim openly (monotheism) that which you are commanded and turn away from Al-Mushrikoon (polytheists, idolaters, disbelievers, etc) {15:94}. So the Prophet preached Islam openly in Makkah and bore with patience the harm of the idolaters. This shows that secrecy in calling to Islam is forbidden because the command of something prohibits the opposite. And Ibn Abee Aasim narrated in ‘As-Sunnah’ from Ibn Umar RA that he said: A man came to the Prophet SAW and asked him for advice and the Prophet SAW said: “Worship Allah and do not associate any partner with obey your Muslim ruler and proclaim and beware of secrecy”.1
And from Zaid bn Aslam Al-‘Adawee, from his father who said: “News reached Umar bn Khataab that a group of people would gather in the house of Faatimah RA, and he went to her and said: “O daughter of the Messenger of Allah SAW, no one is dearer to us amongst the people than your father, and no one after your father is dearer to us than you, and it has reached me that these people gather in your presence, and by Allah! If this reaches me again I shall burn the house with them. So when they came to Faatimah RA, she said verily Ibn Khataab said so and so, and verily, he will do it, so they departed when Abu Bakr was pledged as Ameer.
And from Al-Awza’ee, he said: Umar bn Abdul-Azeez said: “If you see a people discussing something in their religion, with the exclusion of the masses, then this is the foundation of misguidance2
And Muhammad bn Nadr Al-Haarithee said: “The people of desires adopt misguidance and they destroy guidance so beware of them”.3
I say: “And from their methodology in their establishment of misguidance and destroying guidance is their practice of secrecy in their da’wah.


 1 Reported from Ibn Abee Shaybah in “Al Musaanaf” and Ibn Abee Aasim in Al-Mudhakkir wa tahkeer wa dhikr with a saheeh isnad. And taken from the book Al amr bi luzuum jamaatil-muslimeen of Ibn Barjis page54
2 Imam Ahmad reported it in Az-Zuhd and Ad-Daarimee in his sunan  number 51, and Laalikaee in shahr usool I’tiqaad Ahl-Sunnah and Ibn abd barr in “jaami bayaan al-ilm wa fadlihi” and Al-Bayhaqee in As-sunan
3 Abu Naeem reported it in Al-hilyah 8/218, check Al-intiqaadaat Al-ilmiyyah
The second angle is that the speaker thinks that the ummah has fallen into a time like the first period of his SAW call in Makkah and I say: praise be to Allah that we are not in a time like the period of ignorance of old, nay, we are in good and well being, and none says that we are in a period of ignorance like that of old except that one is bent on takfeer, and his heart is filled with rage upon the ummah.
The third angle is: the speaker does not distinguish between secret da’wah and concealment from the enemy due to necessity, and concealment from the enemy was one of the actions of the Messenger SAW, and the evidences are many like the story of the submission of ‘Amr bn ‘Absa RA when he said: “I was in ignorance, I thought the people in ignorance, and were upon nothing, and they worshipped idols, and then I heard of a man in Makkah proclaiming. So I mounted my mount and proceeded to him and there he was in concealment, bold and daring to his people”. Muslim reported the hadith. And this hadeeth is an evidence that the Prophet SAW concealed himself from his enemy when necessary, and it is not an evidence that the Prophet SAW practiced secrecy in his call.
Fourthly, about secrecy in the da’wah of the Prophet is a mere assumption and hypothesis. He used to call the people and urge them on in carrying out good deeds and he did not indicate that a ruler be removed unlike what conspires amongst the secret groups and parties.     

Without wishing to delve too deeply into secrecy in da’wah, therefore, from the above mentioned facts, it is incumbent that one avoids secrecy in calling people to Islam and that issues be made clear to the people without keeping them ignorant about matters in the religion and with Allah is all strength.

SIGNS OF PARTISANSHIP IN AN INDIVIDUAL

              THE CONNECTION BETWEEN PARTISANSHIP AND FANATICISM

It goes without saying that partisanship and fanaticism are interwoven, one cannot be separated from the other, because the result of partisanship is fanaticism. If partisanship is found, then it is inevitable that bigotry will coexist. And that which the scholars use as a basis is that every person who does partisanship and differs, then it is inevitable that we close its door, and that the end does not justify the means with us, that is, with us Muslims, but the means justifies the end.       
                                       
                                   SIGNS OF PARTISANSHIP IN AN INDIVIDUAL   

After it is clear that partisanship in Islam is forbidden and that it results in fanaticism, the souls will learn without a doubt the distinctive qualities of the one who adorns himself with partisanship.
I shall now point out some signs that can be recognized in a partisan whether he is a leader or a follower and they are:
1 His affiliation with a group or specific society with a specific methodology, differing from the methodology of the pious predecessors and the people of hadeeth like The Muslim Congress(TMC) and Jamma’at at-Tadaamun in Nigeria and Jamaa’atu Tableegh, and his helping his group or society in truth or falsehood. And concerning Jamaa’atu Tableegh, many foolhardy youths utilize the fataawa of some of the people of knowledge especially that of Sheikh Muhammad bn Saalih Al-Uthaymeen, may Allah have mercy on him when he praised them because the Kuffaar accepted Islam from their hands, and the sinners repented due to their efforts, and their cheerful faces, and these are some of the things the Sheikh praised Jamaa’atu Tableegh for. I say: these are not specific to Jamaa’atu Tableegh alone but Allah grants it for any of His slaves He wishes. For how many a prophet did no single soul submit to Islam at his hands, and how many a sinner did not repent due to his advice?  And the best evidence is our Prophet Muhammad with his uncle, the father of Imam Alee, may Allah be pleased with him, Abu Taalib whom the Prophet strived his utmost to call him to guidance but he was not guided as was in the decree of Allah before, that he would not be guided, for the matter of guidance is from Allah and not in the hands of anybody. Then the Sheikh corrected his statement about Jamaa’atu Tableegh with numerous statements some of which are: “…however they have little knowledge and understanding of the religion”. I say, what could be worse than this? Especially one who takes it upon himself to call others to Allah, glorified and exalted is He. And possessing knowledge is a prerequisite to calling others to Allah as Allah says: Say (O Muhammad ):”This is my way; I invite unto Allah (i.e. to the Oneness of Allah-Monotheism) with sure knowledge, I and whosoever follows me (also must invite others to Allah i.e. to the oneness of Allah-monotheism) with sure knowledge. (Q12:108). And it is not possible that a man be a caller to Islam until he is an Aalim (Scholar) in what he is calling to, and it is compulsory on the callers that they learn first and act on what they learn, then call the people”. End quote. And this statement manifests the reality of the Tableeghs in Saudi Arabia, then if this is their reality, then what about the Tableeghs in other countries and non Arab-speaking countries. And it is an amazing thing, what the Tableeghs are upon especially in Nigeria. They have uneducated and fanatic adherents. And what is even more surprising is there renouncing of true knowledge, just as one of them said, and I choose not to mention his name: “How much knowledge did the Prophet  have before the beginning of his call to Islam!?”
Verily this statement makes my skin crawl because I have never heard the likes of this statement, and that which we hear also is the statement: “How much knowledge did the Sahaaba have before calling to Islam?” this is an indication of the ignorance such people have of the religion. And a mention of what the Jamaa’atu Tableegh are upon of their principles, part of which is knowledge, even though in reality it is knowledge of assembling people to their group, and not the knowledge of the Sharee’ah which stems from the Qur’an and the Sunnah and what the pious predecessors were upon. And we also mentioned earlier that among the principles of the Mu’tazilah is Adl although there is no justice in them when they deny Qadar, and there is no Tawheed in them while they deny the attributes of Allah, and there is no commanding of good and forbidding of evil in them while they revolt against their leaders.
2 His sitting and walking with one of the aforementioned groups or other than them from the people of deviation in aqeedah and actions, whether it is a group or an individual, following or being followed. Because Al-Mustapha said: “souls are like recruited soldiers, what is good from them is agreed upon and what is wrong from them is differed upon.
3 His avoidance and denial of the callers of what the people of the narrations are upon, and his denial in obeying Allah and His messenger and the leader of the Muslims, and walking on the path of the Salaf.
4 His criticism of Ahlus-Sunnah and turning his face when he hears reprimand of partisanship of the time and the companions of secret organizations and hidden coalitions.
5 And from the signs of partisanship is their strong love for songs (nasheeds) and theatrical performances, and their passionate urge of it and its adherents, and most of the traits found in the ranks of The Muslim Brotherhood is their love for their judges, and their party of wretched youths who are deluded, and among the women, the weak and deluded, may Allah return all of them to the truth. And these songs and nasheeds are a remnant of the ways of the Sufis which is present among the ikhwaani muslimeen and their groups due to the differences between them. And for this reason, Sheikh Saalih Al-Fawzaan, may Allah preserve him, was asked about the mention of many Islamic nasheeds and he answered: “this nomenclature is not correct, it is a new name and there is nothing called ‘Islamic nasheed’ among the books of the Salaf, and the people of knowledge hardly considered their statements, and what is known is that the sufis took nasheeds as a part of the religion and they listened to it, and in our times when different groups have emerged, it has become an issue for every group, songs for stirring up emotions and hence were named Islamic nasheeds. This name is not correct and as such, it is not permissible to take these nasheeds as a part of Islam, and spreading it amongst the people, and with Allah is all success.
Also, Sheikh Ahmad bn Yahya bn Muhammad An-Najmee, may Allah have mercy on him said: “the spread of nasheeds night and day, i.e, singing them, and I do not say listening to poetry is haram for verily, the prophet listened to poetry, but these people make as a methodology in these songs a madhhab of which the Sufis are upon, in their singing which stirs up emotions”.
6 And from their signs is that they see that the warning of bid’ah in the religion necessitates denial of assisting the Muslims, that is, they see that if one should speak negatively about the principles in their groups which do not agree with the Qur’an and the Sunnah, that person is trying to cause division in the religion. And they say: ‘”he busies himself with the mistakes of the muslim brotherhood and he keeps quiet about the enemies of the world”. And one of the principles of the muslim brotherhood is: “rebuking hardens the heart”. But where is their adherence to the pious predecessors, among the nation that Allah is pleased with in regard to their innovated stance which deviates from the right way?
7 Their praising and extolling the leaders of their societies and they imagine it is compulsory to attach their hopes on them.
8 And from their signs is the division of the religion into peel and core, that is, they consider some aspects of the religion as primary like prayer and fasting and neglect others saying it is secondary such as keeping the beard and not dragging the lower garment, whereas the above mentioned are all part of the religion of Islam. And it is surprising that these groups busy the people with politics of the time and neglect the politics of the religion. We say: “it is incumbent on you before you start calling people to politics that you first educate the people as regards answering the call of Allah and his messenger by using the Qur’an and the Sunnah”.
9 Their piling of large numbers of people without paying attention to the foundation which this group is built, and their making of a congregation of people, each with a different nature. So, this one is an Ash’aaree and the other is a Maatureedee and the next is a Sufi, and the fourth is a Murji’ee, and maybe a Hizbee and maybe a Takfeeree who adheres to the methodology of the Khawaarij, and they compile corruption in a single unit, and their beliefs are different. This is not so for those who believe in what the pious predecessors believe in and adhere to what they were upon. And from the principles of the Salafee call is: “…education and knowledge before piling large numbers”. While the deviant groups use the erroneous principle: “let us unite on what we agree on and excuse each other in our differences”, and this principle is in opposition to the sharee’ah.
10 Secrecy in actions: And among the traits of Hizbiyyah is practicing secrecy in actions of da’wah. And among the signs of the people of misguidance is their meeting in secret hiding from the eyes of the people, saying things in secret which they cannot say in the open and likewise doing things in secret which they cannot do in the open, so they are like a two-faced mole and the Prophet said: “verily, the worst of people are the double-faced people who come to these with a face and to those with another face”. Whoever reads the history of the people of knowledge will find that this was not their way. Imam Al-Qurtubi said: “the two faced person is the worst of people, for his case is like the hypocrite causing corruption on the earth”.
We should know that the aqeedah of the people of innovation and their statements does not manifest except with a strong authority, or a stubborn devil assisting them, deceiving the people with their innovations. Or compelling the people with his sword or his whip or helping them with wealth in order to deviate from the path of Allah, strongly devoted to his innovation causing the Muslims to turn on their heels in face of the enemy after their love for the obedience of Allah. We ask Allah for safety from these people.
  And a speaker amongst them said: “…secret da’wah is established in the actions of the prophet SAW when he called the people in secret in Makkah. The answer to this is in a number of angles:
1 This evidence is false because the Prophet was commanded to proclaim the religion and manifest it as Allah says: “therefore proclaim openly (monotheism) that which you are commanded and turn away from Al-Mushrikoon (polytheists, idolaters, disbelievers, etc) {Q15:94}. So the Prophet preached Islam openly in Makkah and bore with patience the harm of the idolaters. This shows that secrecy in calling to Islam is forbidden because the command of something prohibits the opposite. And Ibn Abee Aasim narrated in ‘As-Sunnah’ from Ibn Umar RA that he said: A man came to the Prophet and asked him for advice and the Prophet SAW said: “Worship Allah and do not associate any partner with obey your Muslim ruler and proclaim and beware of secrecy”.1
And from Zaid bn Aslam Al-‘Adawee, from his father who said: “News reached Umar bn Khataab that a group of people would gather in the house of Faatimah RA, and he went to her and said: “O daughter of the Messenger of Allah SAW, no one is dearer to us amongst the people than your father, and no one after your father is dearer to us than you, and it has reached me that these people gather in your presence, and by Allah! If this reaches me again I shall burn the house with them. So when they came to Faatimah, she said verily Ibn Khataab said so and so, and verily, he will do it, so they departed when Abu Bakr was pledged as Ameer.1




1 Classed as daeef (weak) by AL-Albaanee   M
And from Al-Awza’ee, he said: Umar bn Abdul-Azeez said: “If you see a people discussing something in their religion, with the exclusion of the masses, then this is the foundation of misguidance2
And Muhammad bn Nadr Al-Haarithee said: “The people of desires adopt misguidance and they destroy guidance so beware of them”.3
I say: “And from their methodology in their establishment of misguidance and destroying guidance is their practice of secrecy in their da’wah.


 1 Reported from Ibn Abee Shaybah in “Al Musaanaf” and Ibn Abee Aasim in Al-Mudhakkir wa tahkeer wa dhikr with a saheeh isnad. And taken from the book Al amr bi luzuum jamaatil-muslimeen of Ibn Barjis page54
2 Imam Ahmad reported it in Az-Zuhd and Ad-Daarimee in his sunan  number 51, and Laalikaee in shahr usool I’tiqaad Ahl-Sunnah and Ibn abd barr in “jaami bayaan al-ilm wa fadlihi” and Al-Bayhaqee in As-sunan
3 Abu Naeem reported it in Al-hilyah 8/218, check Al-intiqaadaat Al-ilmiyyah
The second angle is that the speaker thinks that the ummah has fallen into a time like the first period of his SAW call in Makkah and I say: praise be to Allah that we are not in a time like the period of ignorance of old, nay, we are in good and well being, and none says that we are in a period of ignorance like that of old except that one is bent on takfeer, and his heart is filled with rage upon the ummah.
The third angle is: the speaker does not distinguish between secret da’wah and concealment from the enemy due to necessity, and concealment from the enemy was one of the actions of the Messenger, and the evidences are many like the story of the submission of ‘Amr bn ‘Absa, may Allah be pleased with him, when he said: “I was in ignorance, I thought the people in ignorance, and were upon nothing, and they worshipped idols, and then I heard of a man in Makkah proclaiming. So I mounted my mount and proceeded to him and there he was in concealment, bold and daring to his people”. Muslim reported the hadith. And this hadeeth is an evidence that the Prophet concealed himself from his enemy when necessary, and it is not an evidence that the Prophet practiced secrecy in his call.
Fourthly, about secrecy in the da’wah of the Prophet is a mere assumption and hypothesis. He used to call the people and urge them on in carrying out good deeds and he did not indicate that a ruler be removed unlike what conspires amongst the secret groups and parties.     

Without wishing to delve too deeply into secrecy in da’wah, therefore, from the above mentioned facts, it is incumbent that one avoids secrecy in calling people to Islam and that issues be made clear to the people without keeping them ignorant about matters in the religion and with Allah is all strength.