But when the one being criticised is from the People of Misguidance and the People of Deviation and from the People of Destructive and Adulterated Principles, then it is not permissible for us to mention their good points/deeds - when he has good points/deeds - because when we mention them, this deceives the people and makes them hold a good opinion about this strayer or about this innovator or deviant or parisan (one engrossed with party-spirit). So then they accept the ideas of this strayer or this innovator or this biased partisan. And Allaah jalla wa ‘alaa refuted the Disbelievers, the Criminals and the Hypocrites and did not mention any of their good points/deeds. And likewise the Scholars of the Salaf refute the Jahmiyyah and Mu’tazilah and the People of Misguidance and they never mention any of their good points/deeds. This is because their good deeds/points are impaired by their misguidance, disbelief, deviation and hypocrisy. So it is not befitting that you refute a straying wanderer, innovator, deviant and then mention his good points/deeds and that you say he is a good man, he has this and that good deed/point, but he made a mistake! We say to you: Your praise of him is stronger than your his misguidance, because the people will hold on to you praise of him. So when you promote this straying innovator and you praise him then you have deceived the people and this opens up the door for accepting the ideas of those who lead others astray.

Until he said:

And the foundation for this doubt of counterbalancing between the good and bad points/deeds in criticising, one of the youth spoke by it and wrote a book on it. Then others received this with much joy. I came across this book in which its author argues for the principle of counterbalancing and I also came across the work of Shaikh Rabee’ bin Haadee al-Madkhalee and he refuted that book in which its author justifies the idea of counterbalancing with a sufficient/complete refutation and explained what such words contain of error and promotion of falsehood and he explained the madhhab of the Salaf in refuting and that they used to refute people who lead others astray and that they did not praise them because if they had done that, this would have been contradictory. [Kitaab ul- Ajwibah al-Mufeedah Fee As’ilatil-Manaahij al-Jadeedah]

And Shaikh al-Albaanee was asked about the principle of al-Muwaazanah (counterbalancing) and he rejected it and exposed its falsehood and in his words there occurred:

From where [did they derive this] that when the circumstance arises for explaining the mistakes of a Muslim, whether he is a caller [daai’yah] or not, that it is necessary for a lecture in which his good points/deeds - from their beginning to their end are mentioned? Allaahu- Akbar!! A strange thing!! [Ajwibah ‘Alaamah al-Albaanee alaa Abee Hasan ad-Da’awiyyah]

And Shaikh Zaid bin Muhammad al-Madkhalee said:

Just as I love that I explain to this writer of this work and to his associates that Shaikh Rabee bin Haadee al-Madkhalee, whom they consider to be one of those individuals whom they have named with ‘as-Salafiyyah al-Jadeedah’, he is not the only one who has destroyed this aforementioned principle of the obligation of counterbalancing [between the good and bad points/deeds] and who has fought against it - as the author of this work has claimed. Rather, those who are more vast than him in knowledge and more senior in age and who have precedence in being sought - have shared with him in saying that it is not necessary, rather that one should not be pleased [in doing it] - such as the Respected Shaikh Abdul-Azeez Bin Baaz and Shaikh Abdul-Azeez al-Muhammad as-Salmaan and Shaikh Saalih bin Abdullaah al- Fawzaan. [Kitaab ul-Ajwibah as-Sadeedah alaa As’ilat ir-Rasheedah]

And after these quotations from the scholars we come with the result and this is that the principle of ‘al-Muwaazanah’ (counterbalancing) is an innovatory principle, the purpose behind it is to raise and promote the affair of the Ahl ul-Bid’ah - and that the first ones who spoke by it are the people of the new Ikhwaani ideology “al-Qutubiyyah” and if you wish you can say ‘as- Surooriyyah”.