THREE: Going back to the original discussion (in this treatise) I say:
The angle and direction that the very first Murji’ah came from was their
great veneration of iman and their belittlement of sin and disobedience (i.e.
that they do not affect a persons iman) and they considered it unlikely or an
exaggeration that a person’s iman could be destroyed by sins. Therefore,
they stated, "No sin can harm in the presence of iman"! It was from
this that there misguidance occurred.
As for these people of today, then their angle and direction is to venerate
politics such that everyone who is with them in their movement then he is a
person of loyalty. And if a person has understanding of the movement [its aims
and means etc.] then no sin can affect a person, even if it is committing
shirk with the Lord of all the worlds!!! Do you not see how their chiefs and
main organisers fall into the greatest of sins and yet they do not move on
account of shame (for the religion). Their shame is only for their party and
their movement!! Do you not see how they become alarmed and shocked if Shaikh
‘Abdul-‘Aziz bin Baz and Shaikh al-Albani both say that going into a
bloody battle with the Jews should be abandoned and instead attention should be
given to strengthening the Muslims first [before engaging in a battle in which
they would get slaughtered without any doubt]. And this is a fatwa from true and
real mujtahidoon (i.e. those qualified to give verdicts on such affairs).
However, when one of their movement leaders makes a mistake, then it is an
obligation within their movement to lower the eyes and not to notice it,
regardless of how hideous and disgraceful it might be.
And how frequently do they give rulings regarding the shedding of blood and
the taking of property and then proceed to shed it in vain. If they had actually
reached the level of being students of knowledge, then this would be the best
that could be thought of them.
Take this Ali bin Haj (Algeria) for example, he gives a verdict for the
killing of thousands of Muslims and the expulsion of those that remain and also
for the disturbance and frightening of secure townships (which are safe and
sound). And likewise whatever he says in praise and commendation of democracy
and other such things that we have just quoted from him. So along with all of
this no one criticises him, in their view, except a (government) agent!!
And before him, Sayyid Qutb reviled and rebuked some of the Prophets of Allah
the Most High, and also censured some of the Companions who had been guaranteed
Paradise. He also considers that the shari’ah politics are embodied in
Socialism. There are many other things which have been explained in detail by
Shaikh Rabi’ al-Madkhali in his most recent books, and Shaikh al-Albani
said about him, "Verily, the carrier of the flag of the science of
criticism and appraisal today, in this era is our brother, Dr. Rabi’ and
those who refute him do not refute him upon the basis of knowledge ever, and the
knowledge is actually with him…". So this is a testimony for Shaikh
Rabi’ from a specialist in the field itself![8]
Then comes along this Turabi with his claim of this so called Islamic State
in Sudan and who organises conferences in order to unite all the religions, and
in order to commend and praise the religion of the grave worshippers and also in
order to erect a very large number of churches, which were not be found even in
the secularist state before his time. [And who calls for free mixing between men
and women in society, and seeks to repel and remove the prescribed punishments
of the Shari’ah (hudud)].
And then there is the ease that they (the political activists) give to the
Afghanis, such that they do not change anything from the religion of the grave
worshippers and heresies. Rather, they fight against the People of Tawhid in
defence of the Taaghoots (of these grave worshippers etc.)! And their plot and
conspiracy against the leadership of Kunar al-Islaamiyyah is not distant in our
memories!! And this town was the only in Afghanistan that was established upon
Tawhid, and in which prayer was established in the best of manners and the
hudood likewise. And there was no other town known for waging a war against
intoxicants like this one. But then the state of the Ikhwan ul-Muslimoon came
along, and it but left them enraged and mad, until they waged war against it and
assassinated its amir, the Salafi Shaikh, Jameel ur-Rahmaan – may Allaah
have mercy upon him. So they combined the greatest of sins absolutely, Shirk
and the killing of a soul without due right.