Published on 12 Jan 2013
Shaykh Zayd bin Muhammad Hādī Al-Madkhalī
الشيخ زيد بن محمد هادي المدخلي
الشيخ زيد بن محمد هادي المدخلي
A questioner from the UAE asks:
What is your advice, O Shaykh, for someone who busies their self as a beginner
with what exists between the scholars of refutations and statements while not
even knowing the fiqh of purification or other that that?
The Answer by Ash-Shaykh Zayd ibn Muhammad Al-Madkhalī, hafidhahullāhu Ta'Alā:
My advice is that they gain understanding by learning the religion as regards
their beliefs and the outer rituals of worship and as regards their behaviour
and methodology (Manhaj) that they traverse upon. Included in that are the
books of refutation by which the Salaf as-Sālih and their followers refuted the people of desires and
innovations, and how abundant are they in every time and place! It isn't
permissible for anyone to use little understanding of purification and the
prayer as a means to deprive the people from hearing the books of refutations
and them being written, benefited from and read. But just as if is mandatory to
gain understanding regarding 'Aqīdah and the outer rituals of worship, it is mandatory for us to
gain understanding by learning the methodology of action and the Sunnah in
order to act by it and be acquainted with innovation which is its opposite in
order to avoid it. So it isn't permissible for anyone to say to the people
abandon these refutations and leave off this or the other and stick to
something else. He says this without knowledge because if he doesn't know the
evil, he'll fall into it while the refutations clarify the way of good from the
way of evil. So he listens to a tape, reads a book and listens to a scholar as
regards all levels of the religion, 'Aqīdah and Shari'ah, Sunnah and Manhaj. The people of innovations
of the past from the era of the sahābah until this day of ours weren't made known for us except by
way of the books of refutation upon them. If the books of refutation didn't
exists throughout time and places the people wouldn't know the people of
innovations and wouldn't be able to warn against an innovator. And the covenant
of Allah and His trust is upon the people of refutations that they are not to
say anything but the truth and are not to accuse anyone that they don't have
clear evidence and knowledge against from what they wrote or distributed, said
in a tape of a book that they authored. This is the way of refutations and
otherwise it is not allowed for anyone to refute by way of suspicions or
accusation contrary to reality. Yes.
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