The Greatest Challenge to Tawhid and the Dawah of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab | Shaykh Badr Al-Utaybi

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📌 In this clip, Shaykh Badr al Utaybi explains which innovated sect Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab primarily refuted and identifies the overwhelming majority of those who opposed and attacked his dawah. ⚠️ The answer to both questions is the same: the Murjiah. The Murjiah are innovators who removed one or more components from iman and, as a result, affirmed Islam for those who commit shirk and kufr. There were two primary groups of Murjiah: 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 Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab 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 actions and statements have been witnessed. ❌ They claim that his ruling cannot be known until something beyond what is outwardly apparent is established, such as his intention, the presence of inward preventers, or other imagined barriers that they presume may exist. ❌ In reality, both of these groups are themselves the extremists in their Irja. ❌ They are misguided innovators who either affirm acts of shirk to be part of Islam or affirm the doer of shirk to be a Muslim. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ 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 #