The Hadith of the 73 Sects: How It Is Being Attacked Today | Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan

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📌 The Hadith of the 73 Sects and the Reality of La ilaha illa Allah. - In this beneficial explanation, Shaykh Salih al Fawzan affirms the authenticity of the hadith concerning the splitting of the Ummah into seventy three sects and refutes those who attempt to cast doubt upon it. ⚠️ The Shaykh explains that merely claiming Islam or uttering "La ilaha illa Allah" is not sufficient if a person falls into that which contradicts and nullifies its meaning. - For "La ilaha illa Allah" is not merely a statement of the tongue, but has conditions, requirements, and implications that must be fulfilled outwardly and inwardly. The Shaykh also warns against the deviant methodologies that seek to keep the Ummah upon division and false beliefs, emphasizing the obligation of returning to the Book of Allah, the Sunnah of His Messenger ﷺ, and the way of the Salaf. 📌 Video Source: (13:18 - 16:04) 22 من 196|شرح اقتضاء الصراط المستقيم|الافتراق مشهور |صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BUFGzsZoVU&list=PL3523jgHxjkbJ-XoHdXT1h35F0wqs6IAw&index=22 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ The Murji'ah conflate the outward rulings pertaining to legislative names and labels with the inward rulings pertaining to legislative punishments. - 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. - 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 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. 👉 (❗) Rather, he IS CALLED a kafir based on the outward act he committed. Such as prostrating to other than Allah, vowing as an act of worship to other than Him, or slaughtering an animal, like a sheep, for other than Allah.” 📚 Source: Kitāb Fatāwā al-Lajnah al-Dāʾimah –First Collection, vol. 1, p. 220 https://shamela.ws/book/8381/396#p1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ The methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaah: The outward ruling is based exclusively on statements and actions. ✍️ 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Quran #Sunnah #Aqeedah #Salafi #salafiyyah #Bidah #IslamicAdvice #IslamicReminders #SeekingKnowledge #Tawheed #Muslim #Fiqh #scholarsofsunnah #AhlusSunnah #IslamicClips #IslamicShorts #Creed #IslamicEducation #IslamicLecture #MuslimYouth #Knowledge #IslamicGuidance #Shariah #Reminder #ShirkAkbar #ExcuseOfIgnorance #Takfir #Iman #Kufr #SalafiDawah #AhlusSunnahWalJamaah #ManhajSalaf #IslamicCreed #UsulAlDeen #KitabAlTawhid #ScholarsOfIslam #IbnBaz #IbnUthaymeen #LajnahDaimah #Clarification #Refutation #SeekKnowledge #Ilm #Dawah #Truth #Guidance #SunnahWay #Sunnah #Tawhid #PropheticSunnah #IslamicKnowledge #Salafi #zuhd #sufi #sufism