Re: Salafi
one more thing what about wahabbism and im sorry i know i said dis before but i really do believe all this is breaking muslims apart, i mean i went to a salfi talk recently and they were acting as if they were like better cos somehow they had a better 'version' or something i dont know i'll just follow the sunnah and quran inshalah.
Acting that way is a mistake and it's wrong, which our scholars have pointed out. Shaykh Uthaymin said:
Salafiyyah is following the way of the Prophet (sal-Allaahu ‘alayhe wa sallam) and his Sahabah for they are our Salaf (predecessors) who preceded us, so following them is Salafiyyah. As for taking Salafiyyah as a special Manhaj (Methodology) such that everyone who differs with it is considered astray even if he was on the truth; then this is beyond doubt opposite to Salafiyyah.
All the Salaf called to Islaam and to unite upon the Sunnah of Allaah’s Messenger (sal-Allaahu ‘alayhe wa sallam) and they did not declare astray anyone who differs with them (in a certain issue) because of (a different) interpretation (Taweel), except in matters of Aqeedah (beliefs) because they considered him, who differed in Aqeedah as astray.
But, in our time, some who took the path of Salafiyyah consider astray everyone who differs from them even if the truth were to be on his side. And they took a Hizbi (partisan) Manhaj, just like the other Hizbs (parties), who divide the religion. This (their way) must be rejected and not be approved of.
It is said, ‘Look at the way of the Salaf as-Salih and what did they do in regards to differences and wideness of their hearts with regards to Ikhtilaaf (differences) in matters in which Ijtihad was feasible. (They differed with each other) to the degree that they differed in big issues, in (minor) issues of Aqeedah and (minor) issues of knowledge - for example, some of them denied that Allaah’s Messenger (sal-Allaahu ‘alayhe wa sallam) saw His Lord and some of them confirmed of it. Some of them said, ‘the deeds would be weighted on the Day of Judgment’, whilst others held that ‘the books which record the deeds will be weighed.’ They also differ in matters of Fiqh, Marriage, obligations, buying and selling, etc. Despite this, they did not declare each other astray.
Thus, Salafiyyah that is taken to mean a special party (Hizb) with specific rules whose members consider anyone who differs with them as astray then they have nothing to do with Salafiyyah.
But the Salafiyyah that is to follow the Salaf in beliefs, sayings, actions, their way of differing and unity, their way of being merciful and compassion to one another as the Prophet (sal-Allaahu ‘alayhe wa sallam) said,
“You see the believers as regards their being merciful among themselves and showing love among themselves and being kind, resembling one body, so that, if any part of the body is not well then the whole body shares the sleeplessness (insomnia) and fever with it.” [1]
Then this is the true Salafiyyah.
http://www.islamicboard.com/sects-divisions/37204-what-salafiyyah.html
assalamu alaikum
but the salafi's do negate a loooot of the madhab views by calling them innovations and sometimes perhaps shirk such as tasbih, the very meaning of bid'a, forms of prayer, milad, 15th sha'ban etc. many many things they declare a horid innovation instead of calling it a difference of opinion. Allah knows best....
Some that you mentioned are rightly innovations and every innovation is misguidance. Some are valid differences of opinions. Anyway, this thread isn't the place to discuss over it and this forum doesn't allow sectarian discussions. Therefore,
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please keep researching inshaAllah