So the people have become like the scum found upon the
surface of flood-water just as Allaah's Messenger (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) said, 'It is about to
happen that the nations invite one another to come upon you just as those
invited to a meal come together to eat from the dish.' So someone said, 'Is that
because of our small number on that day's' He said, 'Rather on that day you will
be many, but you will be like the scum found upon flood-water, and Allaah will
pluck away fear of you from the hearts of you enemies, and Allaah will cast wahn
into your hearts.' Someone said, 'And what is wahn?' He said, 'Love of this
world and hatred of death.'
Certainly they have become like the scum upon
flood-water, and the nations have invited each other to attack them just as
those invited to a meal come together to eat from the dish. They have attacked
them within their own lands, humbled then and subjugated them. Taken possession
of then and their lands, plundered their riches, and corrupted their manners,
all of this is a result of being far from the methodology prescribed by Allaah,
the methodology of the Prophets. Then when fully submerged in this painful state
and when it was too late, many people opened their eyes and awoke from their
slumbers; SO they began shouting out to the people, 'Return to Allaah, for these
are the ways to salvation.' They began writing and delivering speeches, giving
directions to the people, making plans and outlining the means to attain might,
honour and salvation. Each of them strove and acted according to what appeared
to them to be the truth. So I say in truth, 'They put forward a great deal in
the field of manners, society, politics and economics, and they are many and
represent a number of different orientations. If their efforts were united and
they began with what the Messengers began with and they earnestly strove to
follow their methodology, then their Ummah would escape from what it has fallen
into and they would be able to reach what they desire. The most significant of
these orientations are three:
The first, Is represented by
a group who follow the methodology of the Messengers in its 'Aqeedah and its
da'wah, and who cling onto the Book of their Lord and the Sunnah of their
Prophet, and who follow in the footsteps of the Pious Predecessors
(as-Salafus-Saalih) in their 'Aqeedah, their worship and their da'wah. This is
the orientation which it is obligatory upon the Muslims to adopt, in obedience
to the saying of Allaah, the Most High,
Meaning, - And hold fast
all of you together to the rope of Allaah, and be not divided (amongst yourselves).
They must do this so that their efforts can achieve
success and so that they attain the Pleasure of their Lord, and so that they
achieve strength in order to attain the honour, nobility and success which they
desire. A point to be held against them is that they have not expended the
necessary monetary and physical efforts needed to broadest the true da'wah, and
have not presented the truth vigorously in the form of da'wah and publications
such as benefit the rank and loftiness of their da'wah.
The second, is represented
by a group who direct their attention to some of the actions of Islaam, and are
dominated by Soofee tendencies which have seriously undermined the 'Aqeedah of
Tawheed in the souls of many of its followers, and have produced that which is
to be held against them in their creed ('Aqeedah) and their worship. Shaikh
Taqiyyuddeen al-Hilaalee and Shaikh Muhammad Aslam, a graduate of the Islamic
University. and others have written critiques directed to this group, and it is
binding upon them to benefit from this and to return to the truth and the
correct wsy.