Was Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab a Khariji Who Made Takfir of Muslims? | Shaykh Salih al Fawzan

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⚠️ In this clip, Shaykh Dr. Salih al Fawzan responds to a false accusation commonly spread by the extremist Murjiah: that Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab was a "Takfiri" because he made takfir of those who worship other than Allah. 🔍 The Murjiah who make this claim are generally of two types: 1️⃣. Those who do not consider these actions to be shirk, nor do they consider the one who performs them to be a mushrik. 2️⃣. Those who believe the actions are shirk, but still excuse the doer and continue to regard him as a Muslim. ❌ Both of these misguided and extremist Murji groups attack the Shaykh for declaring as kuffar those who outwardly direct acts and statements of worship to other than Allah. 🔍 The first group raises shubuhat and argues that actions such as slaughtering, calling upon, and making vows to other than Allah are not shirk akbar. 🔍 The second group raises shubuhat and argues that the individual who directs these acts of worship to other than Allah remains a Muslim outwardly, even after his outward actions and statements have been witnessed. ❌ They claim that his ruling cannot be known until something beyond what is outwardly apparent is discovered, such as his intention, the presence of inward preventers, or other imagined barriers that they assume may exist. ❌ In reality, both of these groups are themselves in reality the extremists. in their Irja. ❌ They are misguided innovators who either affirm actions of shirk to be from Islam or affirm the doer of shirk to be a Muslim. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✍ 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ 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 #Hajj #DhulHijjah #EidAlAdha #DaysOfDhulHijjah #Pilgrimage #Udhiyah #Qurbani #Hajj2026 #IslamicReminder #Sacrifice #Sunnah #Tawhid #Arafah #Eid