Working with the People of Innovation...

Source: TROID

In the Name of Allaah, Ar-Rahmaan, Ar-Raheem...

Subhan'Allaah - May Allaah save the Muslims, have we not reached a time when those who claim to call to Allaah form sea to sea wish to destroy the religion by sitting with, mixing with, calling to, cooperating with - the people of innovation. So much so, that those who maintain themselves upon al-Manhaj as-Salafee having been rendered 'undobtedly harsh/extreme' in the kangaroo court of public opinion and majority!  So today, we have people claiming salafiyyah whilsts taking the position of Imaam in an openly ikhwaanee masjid, taking to the mimbar in masaajid that fight the da'wah of the salaf all in the name of 'the greater good', they claim they have 'weighed the affair' the 'harm and the benefit' that the people are 'close to the sunnah...can't pass up this opportunity'. Well, Sufyaan ath-Thawree who died just 167H didn't quite see it in this way. May Allaah save us from being a trial and a calamity for the Muslims, ameen! 

The great Imaam of Ahlus-Sunnah, Sufyaan al-Thawree [d.167H] said:

"Whoever sits with a person of innovation (bid'ah) cannot escape one of three [3] things:

1. He is a trial and tribulation for others,

2. Something may fall into his heart that remains with him and causes him to enter the Hellfire or he will say,

3. 'By Allaah,I do not care about what they say and I have full confidence in myself.'

Whoever feels that they are not in need of Allaah to safeguard his religion even for the blinking of an eye,then He will take it from him." [Refer to al-Bida' wa al-Nahyu 'anha [p. 104] of Ibn Waddah with the checking of Badr al-Badr]

Masha'Allaah, a profound statement over 1000 years old - if some of the 'callers' today would only understand it and implement it, they would not harm themselves or the innocent Muslims who follow them in to the masaajid and sittings with the people of misguidance and confusion.

Sufyaan ath-Thawree [d. 167H]