Al-Jarh Wa At-Tadeel: Clarifying The Public Errors Of Our Brother Muhammad Muneer Mufti

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Minhaj Questions concerning refutations by Shaykh Abdullah Ad-Dhafiri

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Question: Is it permissible for the person to busy himself with the books of refutations and spreading them and calling to the purification of the Islamic creed and methodology or is it better that he does not give importance to this affair and spreading the statements of the scholars concerning it?

Answer: Reading the books of knowledge, reading the books of refutations from the people of the Sunnah, all of this is necessary. Because refuting the people of falsehood and desires, the intent behind it combines a foundational principle. Warning against falsehood is required, knowing falsehood is required, therefore the person reads the truth and he reads the refutations that the scholars have written against the people of falsehood; as Hudaifah said:

“The people used to ask about the good while I used to ask about the evil fearing that I would fall into it, (or fearing that it would reach me).”

Especially if the evil is widespread and the person fears for himself and those around him. Therefore he reads the refutations upon the people of falsehood in order to be cautious of them and to warn others.


Question: Oh Shaykh, are the books of refutations considered to be from legislative knowledge?

Answer: Yes. Allah the Exalted said:

Whoever disbelieves in the false deities and believes in Allah has indeed grasped the most trustworthy handhold. (Chapter 2:256)

Thus the person knows the falsehood in all its forms and he is free from it, free from shirk, innovation, falsehood, and the impermissible acts, and he knows the truth and believes in it, this is what is required.

Question: Is it upon the small student of knowledge to spread the refutation of Shaykh Rabee declaring Ali Hassan to be an innovator or boycotting those who aid them oh Shaykh, especially if they are calling to the methodology of Abi Hassan?

Answer: Yes he should spread that which clarifies the truth and refutes the falsehood, but with wisdom. This falsehood that Ali Hassan and those with him have manifested, and this new Minhaj, they wish by it to cause division, and to weaken the Salafi Dawah. And the likes of them have preceded them; meaning Abdur Rahman Abdul Khaliq.

And Shaykh Bin Baz aided Shaykh Rabee in refuting him because he embarked upon a new method in dividing the Salafi Dawah, and like him is Ali Hassan and those with him.

Translated by Rasheed Barbee