False Statements: ‘Do not declare the people to be innovators!’ ‘Yaa Akhee! Leave this speech! Leave this speech! Will Allaah ask you about them?’”
Shaykh Ahmad Baazmool (hafithahullah) said:
The answer is yes! You will be
asked on the Day of Resurrection about an innovator whose affair became
widespread amongst the people, and you knew that the Scholars declared him an
innovator, and you betrayed the people and didn’t advise them that this is an
innovator! You will be asked on the Day of Resurrection. In fact, your
neighbour, your friend and your brother will cling to you and say - as has come
in some narrations: “O Allaah! This one saw me upon evil and didn’t change it!”
O you Miskeen! You want to rectify
your situation and defend yourself, so you speak ill of this religion and you
speak ill of the Manhaj of the Salaf! Ok, so when the Salaf -
may Allaah be pleased with them - refuted the people of innovations, warned
against them, clarified their dangers and advised the Ummah [saying:] “So and so is an
innovator!”, “Don’t sit with so and so!”… ‘Umar [ibn al-Khattaab], when he
warned against Sabeegh, commanded that they get him out and to not sit with
him: do we say to ‘Umar, “O ‘Umar! Allaah will not ask you about them!” No, he
will be asked! You will be asked! Because if you are able to clarify the Truth
and there is not any legislated maani’ (barrier, obstacle), e.g. you fear
upon yourself to be harmed; by being hit or by certainly or most-likely being
harmed, then you are excused. But if you are able to clarify and you have the
proof from the words of the Scholars, then it is obligatory that you clarify, O
brother!
O brother, you, you: if I came
to buy this phone from this Ustaadh, Shaykh Khaalid. Ok? And this phone is
broken. Ok? I came to buy it, then after I bought it and Shaykh Khaalid left, I
went to sit with you and you said to me, “To be honest, I know that this phone
is broken. Why did you buy it? His phone is not good.” What do I say to him? Do
I say, “Allaah will not ask you on the Day of Resurrection about why you didn’t
advise me”? I would [unclear...] his neck and say, “Yaa Akhee! How did
you not advise me?! You let me get deceived! You deceived me!”
Ok, so this is a matter of
Religion! That I see you listening to, reading from or going with the people of
innovations and people of desires and I don’t advise you… Which one is more deserving
of advice? This one or that one? This one! This is from the angle of fixing the
mind to what the Salaf - may Allaah be pleased with them -
were upon. This is why the Salaf used to warn!
So therefore, the statement of
this person (in the question) is inconsiderate; a ‘Aql (reasoning) which has been given
precedence over the Naql (evidences). So which one has
precedence, the ‘Aql or the Naql? The Naql, without a doubt!
And may Allaah raise the rank of
our Prophet Muhammad, his family and his Companions and may He grant
them all peace.
