Chapter 7
Criticism of the Salafi Da’wah
Q: What do you say about the one that says about the Salafi Da’wah: it is a retrogressive Da’wah that opposes academic/scientific development, and is inconsistent with civilisation?
Ans: my answer to this –and Allaah is the one that helps-: certainly those that make this false claim are ignorant of the Salafi Da’wah, and from what is more superseding to be mentioned is that we say: one who is ignorant of a thing opposes it.
The Salafi Da’wah: is firstly the understanding of the Book and the Sunnah upon the Manhaj of the pious predecessors.
So who is that who is a Muslim and not astray –we did not say a Kaafir- who is it that dares to say –and he is a Muslim- when he hears that the Salafi Da’wah is: working according to the Book and the Sunnah upon the Manhaj of the Salaf asSaalih, who is that who is able to say: this Da’wah is retrogressive?!
Those who say this are the Kufaar without doubt, or a speech less than this speech they are the ignorant ones .
Q: They say: from the fall backs of the Salafis: is that they are not organised in a group/party/society that gathers them (together)?
Ans: we are not organised; correct, and we have the honour –if it is correct- that we say that, and other than us are organised; so what did they do?
So we are sufficed as it is said:
Surely our relics represent us *** So look to the relics after us
We Salafis- the Islaamic world has progressedfrom their Da’wah, and this is a fact (which) none is able to deny; even thosewho accuse or blame or describe the Salafis with what you mentioned, they arenot capable of denying the effects of the Islaamic Da’wah in their own selves!
But what have they done??! They have aroused alFitan(trials and tribulations), and they have spilled blood without benefittinganything, and without moving a step ahead! Rather they are (like) in the military line-up in some militaryprotocol: mark time![4]
But the Salafi Da’wah –and all praise isdue to Allaah- has woken the Islamic world to the correct Islaam, and theobligation to return to it, with correcting the manners of every individualfrom the Muslims, correcting his family, his kin, and whoever is under hisprotection. etc
So we are not organised indeed; becausethe foundation of every Da’wah starts off with its most important (affair); itsstarts with ‘aqeedah, it starts with tawheed, it starts with correctingworship, and correcting manners, thoseorganizers, or the organized –as they claimed!- what have they done towardscorrecting their ‘aqeedah and their tawheed?![5]
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[1]((Silsilatu-l-Hudawa-n-Nur)) Tape (219), and the answer has some extra benefits but I stopped atwhat was more important in this short treatise.
[2](Surely ismentioned) in this tape.
[3][TN]: Likesaying: “from their fruits you shall know them”
[4] [TN]: here the Shaykh draws a similitude between their condition and a military protocol
[5] ((Silsilatu-l-Huda wa-n-Nur)) Tape no (10)