SHAYKH
RABEE ADVICES BEFORE HE REFUTES
Questioner:
It has been reiterated by some of those with us here in
Riyadh that you have refuted some of the various movements.
Shaykh Rabee:
Some of the what?
Questioner:
Some of the various movements
Shaykh Rabee:
Yes.
Questioner:
Refuted them with speech and written works, so did you advise them
before you refuted them?
Shaykh Rabee:
This is something which is known, it is well-known that I
give advice, such thatthe closed minded Haddadis consider this to be
blameworthy and (they consider this to be)Tamyee; may Allah fight them. By
Allah, we do not do this except in order to protect the Salafis,By Allah I
do not want for a hair of a Salafi to fall. If a person attributes himself to
the SalafiMinhaj and he says, “I’m
Salafi” and he associates with the Salafis and then he falls into a mistake,
even something major, I am not quiet about it and all praises belong to Allah.
I advise him, verbally and written to the best of my ability.
So the first person I advised was Abdur
Rahman Abdul Khaliq, I advised him and the Muslim Brotherhood. The
Muslim Brotherhood, I used to advise them just like ibn Taymiyyah used to advise
all of the different groups. I used to advise them and advise them, and
then I saw that they would not accept anything and they did not want to change,
so it was finished. We left them, and we began to write about their
scholars, those whom had died and their beliefs had begun to spread and
groups began to form around them. And there was no other possibility except for
us to make clear what they were upon. And this was done as sincerity for Allah
and for His Book and to protect the Salafi youth and to protect
their intellects and their Aqeedah and their Minhaj; to protect them
from this pervading thought.
Abdur Rahman Abdul Khaliq was my colleague he and I were in
the same position for four years, may Allah bless you. And he was with us and
with the Scholars and he was Salafi. And all that the Muslim has; is what is
apparent. I do not know what this man conceals, what was apparent to us
was Salafiyyah. He went to Kuwait, may Allah bless you, and good things
were heard about him, and we encouraged him and we were pleased with his
students. But we only felt that he had some ikhwani thoughts in his Minhaj and
in his writings. So I wrote to him some advice, I wrote for him two
booklets each one containing five pages explaining in detail the mistakes that
he had fallen into.
He came to Medina; and he never came one time except that I would
go to him at his brother’s house and advise him, and I would take him
to my house and advise him, and I would take him in the car and advise
him; and I would make clear to him the dangers of the Minhaj that he
was treading upon. And I would strike for him examples of the people
who used to be upon Salafiyyah but when they entered into politics they
deviated and the end result of their students is that they became secularist as
a result of them being preoccupied and engrossed in politics; may Allah bless
you. And I advised him, and I advised him, and he is younger than me. And
I received from him respect and appreciation and it was as though he was
going to accept my view, but I noticed that he was following a specific
path.
I was patient many long
years continuing in the advice. And his
students and his friends would come to me and say, “Be patient with him and
advise him, it will not be a problem. And I do not seek division, but when
it reached the level that he began to insult the Scholars; saying about
them, “Blind, kneeling upon the chest of the Ummah”; may Allah bless you. He would
praise the different groups, and he saw that entering into these groups was
jihad, and that increasing these groups was from jihad, etc. And he would
insult the Salafi Minhaj, and he would say this Salafiyyah is blind following
and that it is not worth anything. …And he would ridicule, and ridicule
and he would say the Scholars don’t have with them anything
of knowledge except for the peel, (Meaning they don’t have the core or the
essence of the knowledge) and they don’t have with them any Tawheed except what
they knew from Shaykh of Islam Muhammad bin Abdul Wahab, and this Salafiyyah is
blind following, blindness, etc. Reviling, defaming the Salafi Minhaj and its
Scholars. Something like this one cannot be quiet about, once it reaches
this level and it becomes public and fitna. So I wrote a refutation
against him, a strong refutation. He replied to me with lies. By Allah he does
not refute me except withlies and deceit. So I refuted him a second
time and a third time, but he opposed, may Allah bless you. Al Haddad, I
advised him, Bashmeel, I advised him, Fareed, I advised him.
I sat with them and I advised them.
By Allah, I was devoted to keeping them from
leaving the Salafi Minhaj, but they refused everything except defiance,
rebellion and foolishness; may Allah bless you. Some of the people refuted Al
Haddad and he attacked with all his faults, lies, and his fabrications. And he travels
on a path; by Allah it resembles the path of Sadam’s destruction of the oil
wells in Kuwait, he sets the books afire and sets its people on fire with his
lies and wickedness. May Allah bless you. Salman, I advised him. Salman…In the issue of “The victorious
group.” He depicted the people of hadith with a very ugly depiction far away
from the reality and from what has been affirmed and witnessed by the
reliable Scholars of this Ummah who bear witness. The witnesses of Allah upon
this Ummah that the victorious group and the saved sect are one in the same and
they are the people of hadith, included with them are those who adopt their Minhaj
even if they are from the commoners, they are included in their numbers
inshaAllah. He depicted them with a vile depiction. I wrote my book and sent it
to him with Ahmad, Ahmad Al Abeed; I was his supervisor when he was going
for his masters at the Islamic university. And another one from
the Emirates, from Sharjah I forget his name. I sent my book to him
and they put it in the hand of Salman. And I waited for a year and
a half; seeking to obtain from him an answer either by phone or by letter
or by way of another person. I did not receive an answer from him. I
did not print my entire book I’m waiting; seeking to cut off the fitna,
seeking harmony and seeking to unite and hoping for his return to the truth and
for him to leave alone those things.
I refuted him in the issue of “The victorious
group” and concerning a number of his books, telling him he made mistakes here
and here and here, and here is a dangerous mistake; may Allah bless you.
And he portrayed Ahlus Sunna and the people of hadith with a very
evil portrayal, saying that they do not enjoin the good and they do
not forbid the evil, etc., etc. diminishing them. So I refuted him,
based upon knowledge and the evidences and then I waited for an answer, but
I didn’t receive an answer from him. I told them to print the book
(The book refuting Salman); so they went and began to threaten the owner of
Dar Sahab, because he’s Egyptian. They sent some people to threaten
him about printing the book, they sent some officers.
He called me crying saying “they sent some officers; they sent one
from the organization threatening me.”
I said to him do not be
afraid, never, do not believe them; go print the book. Then he went and
printed the book. Then they came to me saying, O Shaykh look, we are
brothers we are not dividing. I said to them, let Salman pronounce his
return to the truth now and I will burn my book, and if not then I shall
put it back out. He did not do anything, so I said, “spread the book, spread
the book”. Bakr Abi Zaid, I advised him, may Allah bless you. I called
him myself and I said to him, O Shaykh before this… (Giving a prelude to the
advice) I advised him and there was a prelude to the advice and there was
patience with him.
And the people were saying, “Refute
him.” “Abandon him.”
And I would say, “He is our
brother, we will be patient, and we will excuse him. And when his book
appeared, what’s the name of it? “Classification of the people
between doubt and certainty”, the Hizbees published this book and they
rejoiced over it and they spread it against the people of Medina. I called
him and I said, “O Shaykh Bakr this book was put out against us.” He said, “I
swear by Allah I did not write this against you”. “And you, I swear by
Allah, I am at your service. I swear by Allah I did not intend you.” I said to
him, “Did you intend the Haddadees?” He said to me, “Yes”. He said this to
me in his office in Taif.
I said to him may Allah reward you with
good, write two lines for the people, may Allah bless you. Say to them, I
swear by Allah I did not intend our brothers in Medina. I said to him, and
it’s said now that you are defending the Hizbees. He said, I swear
by Allah I did not intend except to defend Sheik bin Baz and his
brothers. I said to him, write another line. Write two lines only, saying
that you did not intend the people of Medina. And that you were only
defending the Scholars like Shaykh Bin Baz and his brothers. Then leave the
people to spread this. He said to me, “agreed”. I waited and waited, and I
waited for a period of time and nothing came to us.
The people were contacting the youth
from here and from there and they were spreading the book. The Salafis were
being burned, I said no, we will be patient, he is our brother we will be
patient. And he promised (to do) a retraction since (the month
of) Muharam approximately until Ramadan. When there appeared some papers
from him that were being spread, they were being spread may Allah bless you.
They were being passed out in Ramadan during the last ten days, they spread it
against the Salafis, and may Allah bless you. I called him; I said O
Shaykh Bakr, he said “Yes.”I said,I have with me four papers (I don’t
knowI forgot now, maybe four papers).
I have in front of me papers with your
signature on them and they contain oppression of the Salafis, and they contain
this and that. And they contain a defense of Sayid Qutb with falsehood. I
want to know, and your name is on it, if it is from you O Shaykh
Bakr, I request from you an apology, and if it is from other than you then
I request that you free yourself from it. He said, I swear by Allah they want
to divide the brothers, they are corruption makers, they are oppressive;
and he began to criticize them. I said to him, all of that is just talk and it
is of no use, either you apologize, O Shaykh Bakr or you free yourself from it
if it is not from you; may Allah bless you. He said to me, and I don’t remember
exactly what it was but the meaning was, give me an expectation. I said
you have two weeks, because the affair is very dangerous.
I began to write that same night, if
he apologizes then all praises belong to Allah, if not then I will
distribute my refutation.(Someone) said to me: What is your view if I go
to Shaykh Bakr Abi Zaid and request an apology from him? I said, go
to him, may Allah reward you. I swear by Allah I am not eager to
spread this refutation, and it is a very strong refutation, extremely forceful.
I said to him I swear by Allah I am not eager to spread
this refutation; you can speak two words and it will be enough, I will
burn the book. So he went and sat with him for two and a half hours, then he
returned to me happy saying, “He promised me that he was going to write
something and apologize.”I sat and waited; nothing (happen). The People said, ‘O
our brother spread your book, these pages he wrote are spreading throughout the
world; with falsehood.’ And we have very limited publishing capabilities
just one copy that is print quality in the Emirates and I was sent some
cartons of books, I stopped the book. I had (Shaykh) Fawzan mediate
for a year; nothing (happen) (Shaykh) Luhaydan mediated for a year;
nothing. (Shaykh) Sadlan mediated no response. I was forced to publish the
book but with tight restrictions, very tight restrictions. This was my advice
and position with Bakr Abi Zaid.
Safar, I used to advise him from long
ago, and my son advised him. And finally when there appeared from him the
appearance of Irja the people began to refute him. And there remained in
the beginning of the book some things that no one had warned against. I
said: This is my portion. And I debated with him concerning some dangerous
issues, may Allah bless you. And I sent it to him. I sent it with
Zahraani, and of course Zahraani is the cousin of Al Ghamadi, mayAllah
bless you. They gave him the papers. And they said: Shaykh Rabee sends you
the Salaam. And he said: These papers are advice for you, and it is for
you to respond; meaning either in the negative or the positive. They saw
his face change. He said: InshaAllah, next week come back to me. He came the
next week and said to him: Where is the response? He said: By Allah, until
now I do not have it, but come to me next week. He came to him the next
week and said: Where is the response? He said: I do not have a
response. So he gave him another week. I am writing a book now, stronger
than the first, written on a day of anger. Containing speech—We seek
refuge in Allah from trials—where I refuted him with a comprehensive complete refutation.
I presented it to some of the major Scholars, from them was Shaykh Fawzan.
He said: Leave him. Shaykh An Najmi had some speech that was faint. While some
of them encouraged me. I said: Enough, I will stop until
the appropriate arises. Until now I have not spread my book. The
refutation is from the strongest, and all praises belong to Allah.
Al‘Askar, he was our friend. Bashmeel began to play him. Abdul Aziz Al‘Askar, I advised him. I believe I advised him
in Madina. We advised him and he was evasive, and he would dodge and elude.
And it appeared that he was with us, we did not have any feeling except that he would remove his statement, he
would remove his statement, may Allah bless you. His statements were very
heinous containing oppression and lies against Shaykh Al Albani and more
against me. They refuted him and I said: This refutation is sufficient. And I search my library and I do not know if I have this book now. I got my hands on a treatise entitled “Lessons in Prophecies.” I opened it and Allah
willed that there was in front of me some of the speech contained therein that was transmitted from
Deedat that he transmitted from the author of the book “Truth Revealed”. He
said: “How excellent was he, we he said: Verily Isa (Jesus) is the son of Yusuf the carpenter!”
I said: I seek refuge in Allah. This is the slander of the Jews against Maryum and Isa, how can this
person say he is Salafi, and he is in Al Imaan Univeristy spreading this text being pleased with the person who explained
it. By Allah, if Shaykh ibn Baz would have said this I would
have refuted him. And I will refute this disgrace,
tribulation and misguidance, may Allahbless you. I wrote it and I sent it to Shaykh Al Abaad, and Shaykh Fawzan. They said: “Leave
him, leave him, leave him, leave him.”
I do not seek to get into confrontation with my
brothers and with these Scholars. I said, it is finished, we will leave him. They said: He is ignorant, abandon him, leave him. By Allah I
left him. I say now to the people of Riyaad, go and inform Al‘Askar, either he
abandons his lessons in Prophecies, or I will bring my refutation against him; may Allah bless you. And Safar
apologizes so that I will not bring my book against him,
inshaAllah. The point is, Adnan Aroor (I advised him for) six years, Abu Hasan (I advised him for) seven years, there is not
one of them except that I advised him in
writing and verbally, committed to keeping the unity.
And if I saw two Salafi brothers and it were feared that they might divide I tried to unite them.
And I always try to make peace between the Salafis. They
divide in Indonesia, I try to make peace between them, and in Palestine I try
to make peace between them, in Morocco I try
to make peace between them, in whatever place it may be I try to bringabout reconciliation; may Allah bless you. My intention in
this is that the Salafis do not differ therefore I try
to bring about reconciliation between them, and I advise them concerning each
other.
So if a person affiliates
himself to Salafiyyah and then he opposes it I refute him after I have
exhausted my advice to him. Like this I refute him, and this is done as an advice to him. I ask Allah that He grants us sincerity in this, not doing it to be
seen by the people.
Faalih Al Harbee, how much have I advised him?! I advised him for years and years. In the end I wrote him a
private letter between him and I, and he refused to respond. Then later he spread the letter without me being pleased with this. Then a month
and a half, or two months later he began to war against us; this shameless,
unjust war which is built upon lies and based upon wickedness. All of them want
division my brothers, they have a plan that they are traversing upon and they feel
compelled to carry this plan out. And for this reason he never returns from the design that has
been outlined for him. Therefore I refute him; the blame is upon me and not upon them?!
The blame is upon them, I swear by Allah .Shaykh
Al Albany is at the head of those who refute, and sometimes he gives advice. Sheikh Bin Baz
is at the head of those who refute and sometimes he gives advice. Because I wish to give advice, I advise, I am
devoted to this thing in order to unite the word of the Salafis and in protection of the Salafi
Minhaj. And on this occasion, sometimes I mention these things because I am
faced with threats and I am faced with lies, and I am faced with propaganda and rumors. And the
student of knowledge or the scholar, if it becomes necessary for him to mention
his superiority in actions in order to confront and defeat the liars then he has the right to do so and this is
something which has been legislated.
Uthman
may Allah be pleased with him; when they began to slander him and seek to overthrow his rule and insult him he said,
did I not do such and such on this day, did I not provide provisions to the
troubled army, did I not dig the well of Rome did I not do this did I not do that. S'ad bin Waqas when
he was insulted he said, I swear by Allah as relates to the Muslims I swear by Allah, I am the first to shoot an arrow in the path of Allah. He
defended his honor with this statement and repelled the plot of the plotters. And now if we mention something
from our efforts then it is for this reason, I swear by Allah I do not seek anything
other than this, except to suppress and deter those wicked ones, those who accuse us of what we are free from and
they do not war with us except with lies. Not one of them, Abdul Rahman, Abu Hasan, Al-Magharawi,
Al-Haddad, Faalih, they are notable to war with us because they are upon
falsehood, they are not able to battle the truth.
Translated by Rasheed ibn Estes Barbee
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