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🎥 This video is taken from the great book Kashf al-Shubuhat by Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. 📚 CONTEXT: Here, the Imām refutes the extremist Murjiʾah of his time who excused grave-worshippers in the outward ruling, falsely claiming that they are merely ignorant “Muslims” and not Mushrikīn, despite their actions and statements, simply because they say lā ilāha illā Allāh. This is the ʿaqīdah of the extremist Murjiʾah from the Karrāmiyyah, who claim that īmān consists only of statements made by the tongue. According to them, if a person says lā ilāha illā Allāh, even while nullifying it through actions and beliefs, he remains a Muslim. This group was declared heretical and kuffar by the Salaf. Although the sect itself has vanished, its methodology remains present to this day. ✍️ STATEMENT: Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (d. 1206 AH) said: "Merely uttering the wording of the shahadatayn, without knowledge of its meaning and without acting in accordance with its requirements, does NOT make the legally accountable person a Muslim. Rather, it is a proof against the son of Adam. This is contrary to the claim of those who assert that īman is nothing but verbal affirmation, like the Karramiyyah, or mere inward belief, like the Jahmiyyah." 📚 SOURCE: al-Durar al-Saniyyah 12/535 https://shamela.ws/book/3055/5803 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ The Murjiʾah confuse the outward ruling with the inward ruling. - The outward ruling is the judgment in this world, based on clear outward statements and actions, and it does not depend on what is in the heart. - The inward ruling, however, relates to hidden matters of the heart, which cannot be known, and are only considered in matters of punishment or final judgment in the Hereafter. ❌ The error of the Murjiʾah: - They make inner denial a condition for the outward ruling, claiming that a person must “first know” or that “the proof must be established” before he can be judged outwardly as a disbeliever. - This is because they believe denial only occurs after knowledge, so they refuse to apply the outward ruling unless inner denial is proven. - In doing so, they make the outward ruling dependent on hidden matters of the heart, which are impossible to verify. ✅ The correct methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamāʿah: - According to Ahl al-Sunnah, the outward ruling is based solely on statements and actions, and does not require knowledge of what is in the heart. - As for ignorance, denial, coercion, or mistake, these are considered only in matters of punishment and final accountability, not in issuing the outward ruling. This is left to the judge in this world or to Allah in the Hereafter. ⚠️ Important clarification: - The excuse of ignorance has no connection to the outward ruling; rather, it relates only to the inward ruling. If we see or hear a person commit shirk or kufr, we judge him outwardly based solely on what he said or did. - As for inward judgment related to punishment or entry into the Fire, this is not for us; it belongs to the judge in this world or to Allah, the Exalted, in the Hereafter. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✍️ STATEMENT: 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 ✍️ STATEMENT: Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728H) said in As-Sārim al-Maslūl (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 ✍️ STATEMENT: Shaykh Salih Aal al-Sheikh: وأما الجهل الذي يكون لأجل عدم وجود من يُنَبِّه، فإنه يُعذَر به حُكمًا في الآخرة حتى يأتي من يُقيم عليه الحُجَّة،
