Excerpts from "Protection for the Salafee"

[Abu.Adam.Jameel]

Bismillah,

[Be Attached to Proofs, not People and Personalities]

Shaykh, Dr. Ahmad Baazmool, may Allah protect him, said:

One of the greatest principles of the Salafee Manhaj and that which makes firm its establishment is its foundation upon the Quran and Sunnah coupled with the interpretations of the pious predecessors of this nation (1): the Companions of the Prophet, prayers and peace upon him. The Salafee Manhaj does not connect nor attach the truth to personalities (2).

Allah, the Most High, says:

And whoever contradicts and opposes the Messenger (i.e. Muhammad) after the right path has been shown clearly to him, and follows other than the believers' way. We shall keep him in the path he has chosen, and burn him in Hell - what an evil destination. [Al-Nisaa (4): 115]

Shaykh al-Islam, Ibn al-Tamiyyah [d. 728 AH], may Allah have mercy on him, said:

Whoever bases his speech concerning knowledge, foundational matters and subsidiaries matters, upon that which is found in the Quran, Sunnah and narrations of those from the past, indeed, he has attained the Prophetic path. (3)

May Allah make us from those who connect ourselves to the truth, and may he make us from those who are humble when presented with it.


Translated by:
Abu Adam Jameel Finch
14th of Ramadhaan, 1432/August 14, 2011

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(1) [TN]: In these days and times you find many people quoting the Quran as well as the Sunnah; however, when it comes to their (i.e. the Quran and Sunnah’s) interpretations, you don’t find many of them restricting themselves to that which the pious predecessors understood from them, especially when it comes to dealing with the people of desires. Rather, you find them propagating their own uncertain, confusing and ambiguous understandings.

(2) [TN]: How many people these days have connected their religion to a personality? To the point where you now you find people propagating the statement: “It’s not wise to criticize so and so. If so and so is refuted, people will leave the religion!” Has the affair reached a point where personalities are more beloved to the Muslims than the truth?

(3) Ahmad Baazmool, Protection for the Salafee from the Whisperings and Deception of Ali Hasan al-Halabee, 16-17