'Allaamah Saalih Al-Fawzaan Refutes Abd Al-Azeez Al-Fawzaan in His Claim of Permissibility of Demonstrations
There is to be found a network of
individuals who are poisoned with the fikr of al-Ikhwan al-Muslimeen and they
are taken as Shaykhs and promoted as being students of the major Scholars. We
warn the Muslims from these types of individuals no
matter how lofty and glowing their credentials appear to be. One of the things utterly
detested by these people is the fact that Ahl al-Sunnah give importance to the
Salafi manhaj, its clarification and its propagation to the masses, the
result of which is that more and more Muslims are able to distinguish the manhaj
of the Salaf from the foreign alien methodologies thrust upon them by
dubious callers paraded as Shaykhs. It is precisely this that agitates and
disturbs individuals like Abdul-Azeez al-Fawzaan leading them to
fabricate lies against Ahl al-Sunnah. What else would you expect from an
individual who praises Hamas (see
here), makes excuses for them and their ties with Iran? See his great fabrications and mighty lies torn to pieces
right here. In the video to the right, Abdul-Azeez al-Fawzaan is
fabricating lies against Ahl al-Sunnah in Europe, saying how he visits those
lands and finds people who have only been Muslim for two days and the first
thing you hear from them is "manhaj" and attacks against the "major
scholars" and we do not consider except that he intends by major scholars,
the major figureheads of the Hizbiyyeen, from the Qutbiyyah, Ikhwaniyyah and
"Islamists" (those pursuing power using Islam only as a means to
fulfil their desire for power). This is a well-known form of rhetoric and these
fabrications and exaggerations are propagated in very generalized ways without
ever giving specifics, because there are none! Inshaa'Allaah in a separate
article we can address the particular video, but we alluded to it here just so
you can understand where this individual is coming from. He is just another
individual poisoned with the methodologies of al-Ikhwan al-Muslim. His suspect
and questionable shaykhdom is pulverised below by the great Scholar, Allaamah, Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan.
Abdul-Azeez al-Fawzaan Claims
Demonstrations are Permissible with Conditions and Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaans
Demolishes This Baseless Claim
In this audio clip Abdul-Azeez al-Fawzan claims
that "demonstrations are the most superior form of expression in this
era, in terms of requesting rights, across all of the world" and then
he says "I consider them permissible with two conditions" and
then outlines the two conditions. The first he says that the authorities
(nidhaam) of the country (meaning the regulations) must permit them and the
second is that they must be peaceful. He then says that if these two conditions
are met, then "...there is no harm in them, rather, in reality, they
are from the best forms of expression in accordance with the practices
(customs) of most of the nations of the world..."
When you hear these words from him,
then you will come to realize why hateful individuals like Abdul-Azeez
al-Fawzaan detest speech about manhaj and why they make mockery of those
adhering to the way of the Salaf and ridicule them. It is because those holding
fast to the methodology of the Salaf by holding fast to the Imaams of the
Sunnah in our time, like, Shaykh Bin Baz, Shaykh al-Albani, Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen, Shaykh
al-Fawzaan, Shaykh al-Ghudayaan, Shaykh Rabee' al-Madkhali, Shaykh Ahmad
al-Najmi and many others, then they are upon baseerah about individuals such as
Abdul-Azeez al-Fawzaan who permit the methodologies of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Rousseau and others all in the
name of "demanding rights" and "social justice." We've
heard these slogans before in history O Abd al-Azeez al-Fawzaan and alhamdulillaah,
the Muslims of Europe are growing all the more
aware of liars and resentful invididuals like you who resent their connection
with genuine scholars such as Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan.
By the way, do not let all those
credentials of having studied with Shaykh Bin Baz and Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen fool
you. This is actually a further revilement upon an individual in that he is an
opposer to those Shaykhs whose names are deceptively employed in order to help
launder his dirty, corrupt methodology to an unsuspecting audience.
So here are the words of Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan, in refutation of
this individual (also in the audio above), first the question posed:
Question:
There is a (person) who when the Committee of Major Scholars issued a fatwa
regarding the unlawfulness of demonstrations due to them being causes of
corruption, there was found (an individual) who says that demonstrations are of
two types: A type in which there is no looting and [unclear] and no mixing
(between sexes) and they are merely to demand the rights of the people then
they are permissible. And when they comprise corruption, damage and looting
then they are haraam (unlawful), so what is your reply to him?
And the Shaykh's answer:
Ask him, is there are any basis for demonstrations? Is there
a basis for them amongst Muslims, whether in the
past or in recent (times)? Demonstrations were not known except from the West,
from the West. They are not from Islam at all. Islam encourages disciplinary
(order), it encourages with peace (serenity) it encourages absence of chaos.
Rights are not attained through chaos and screams. They are attained through
legislated ways and through ways other than the way of demonstrations. No one
is prevented from raising a complaint, no one is prevented from seeking a right
of his, no one is prevented from that. As for demonstrations then they are not
from the deen of Islaam! And I say and I will repeat it again [with raised
voice] they are not from the deen of Islaam! And nor from the manners of the
Muslims! Rather, they have come to us through Western schemings in order to
tear apart the (united) jamaa'ah and to split the people and bring about
enmity.
You see - dear reader - this is why
these people are resentful and hateful of speech about "manhaj"
(methodology) - it is because they propagate corrupt methodologies in the name
of Islam, Sunnah and often Salafiyyah. And they
detest clarity and taking matters to the Major Scholars, even though they often
deceive the people by having claimed to study under the Major Scholars, the
while they oppose those very same Major Scholars in foundational principles of
the religion. Then they label and accuse others of being "Jaamiyyah"
(see here) and "Madkhliyyah" - names
used to hinder people from the Straight path of Allaah, the Exalted.
Of what benefit is it to parade Abd
al-Azeez al-Fawzan as "a cousin of Sheikh Saalih al-Fawzan" (see
picture above) when Abd al-Azeez al-Fawzaan propagates an
orientation influenced by the manhaj of Dhul-Khuwaisarah, Abdullah bin Saba', Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Jean Jacques
Rousseau, Vladimir Lenin, Abu A'laa Mawdudi and Sayyid Qutb and others who raise the banner of
"social justice" and "demanding rights" and on the other
hand Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan
propagates the manhaj taught by Muhammad (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) until
even in relation to "men with the hearts of devils in the bodies of men"?!
And whilst we point out these
matters, one should also be aware of the students of the likes of these people,
who study with them and then come over to the west and spread the same poison
and venom, and an example of that is Saed Rageah (see
here) whose listed teachers include Abd al-Azeez al-Fawzaan.
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