Is Abdulaziz al-Rayyis a Scholar? Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan Responds

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📌 In this clear fatwa, Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan delivers a decisive refutation on the extremist Murji Abdulaziz al-Rayyas, describing him as an arrogant charlatan and referring to his works as nothing but worthless scum and ignorance. ❓Have you ever heard of such a severe warning? ‼️ This is not without reason. ❌ Abdulaziz al-Rayyas is among the most misguided and deceptive individuals who falsely ascribe themselves to Salafiyyah. ❌ His record is filled with deception, distortion, and false claims, and he has been warned against by the foremost scholars of our time, including 👉 Shaykh Abdulaziz Al al-Shaykh, 👉 Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan, 👉 Shaykh Abdulaziz al-Rajihi, and many others! 🚨 Unfortunately, his misguidance does not stop with him. There are Western callers who adopt his views and channels that promote his speech, placing it alongside the words of major scholars, even though those same scholars have clearly warned against him! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Rayyas's extremist Murji online bots who align with him spread falsehoods to the English-speaking audience, deceiving sincere students of knowledge. They claim that he has repented from his irjah and changed his positions. 🛑 This is a LIE AND FALSE! He continues to publish content regularly on his Arabic platforms, repeating the same irja arguments. Those who claim that he repented will carry the sin of everyone who is misguided by listening to him. Leave off the innovators like Al-Rayyis and listen to the major scholars, such as: ✨Shaykh Abdul Aziz Al Al-Shaykh ✨Shaykh Salih Al al-Shaykh ✨Shaykh Ibn Baz ✨Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen ✨Shaykh Salih Al-Luhaydan ✨Shaykh Salih Al-Fawzan ✨Shaykh Abdul Aziz Al-Rajihi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ The Murjiah conflate the outward ruling with the inward ruling. 1. The outward ruling is the worldly judgment based solely on a person’s outward statements and actions. It does not depend on what is in the heart. 2. The inward ruling concerns the hidden reality of the heart, which cannot be known. It is only considered in matters of punishment and the ruling of the Hereafter. Ignorance, coercion, mistake, and denial are considered here, not in the outward ruling. ❌ The error of the contemporary Murji: 1. They do not differentiate between the legislative names and the legislative rulings. - legislative names are based on what is outward from statements and actions, whereas legislative rulings relate to both the outward and the inward. 2. They make establishing the proof a condition for applying the legislative outward name, when in reality it is only a condition for applying the legislative ruling. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ The methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaah: The outward ruling is based only on what is apparent from statements and actions. As for matters of the heart, they are only considered in punishment and final judgment — in this world by the judge, and in the Hereafter by Allah. ✍️ Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 852H) in Fath al-Bari (12/272), transmitting consensus: وكلهم أجمعوا على أن أحكام الدنيا على الظاهر، والله يتولى السرائر “THEY ALL UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that worldly rulings are based upon what is outwardly apparent, while Allah alone takes charge of what lies within.” End Quote ✍️ Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728H) said in As-Sarim al-Maslul (2/339): فمن قال أو فعل ما هو كفر, كفر بذلك، وإن لم يقصد أن يكون كافرًا، إذ لا بقصد الكفر أحدّ إلًّا ما شاء الله. “Whoever says or does that which is kufr, then he becomes a kafir by that itself, even if he did not intend to become a disbeliever, for no one intends kufr except whom Allah wills.” End Quote ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✍ The Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Fatwas in Saudi Arabia. Fatwah no. 4400: 👉 (❗) "So clarifying the matter and establishing the proof (Iqāmat al-hujjah) is for the purpose of removing any excuse before carrying out the PUNISHMENT upon him, NOT in order for him to be called a kafir only after the clarification.