And my advice to him and his likes is to recant from this type of explication which is dangerous to themselves, before anyone else, and to returning to the truth is better than wallowing in falsehood.

SIX: And yet another one of them – a Doctor in Aqidah (Safar al-Hawali) says, "In this hotel – in every openness – there are drinks, meaning that drinks are presented in relation to what is available… So this is a clear invitation to the consumption of intoxicants and there is [mixed] dancing and nakedness, alongside the consumption of intoxicants. We seek refuge in Allaah from this disbelief (kufr), because declaring what Allaah the Blessed and Exalted has made unlawful to be lawful (istihlaal) is without doubt, clear and open kufr" And he also says in one of his books, "And kufr (disbelief) and heresy (ilhad) has appeared in our midst, and evil has been spread in our districts and invitation is made to fornication on our radios, televisions and we have declared usury to be lawful."

And all of this was extracted and printed in the form of a book – with a variety of different names – ‘Kashf ul-Ghummah an Ulamaa il-Ummah’ in Pakistan, ‘Wa’d Kissinger’ in America and ‘Haqa’iq Hawla Ahdath ul-Khalij’ in Egypt.

I say: You will see that the one who uttered these words has taken it upon himself to say that we have declared usury to be lawful along with other matters that are linked to it. Yet we – by the praise of Allaah – have not declared usury to be permissible and neither has our society. Nor do we consider the mere spread of intoxicants in certain regions to be disbelief that expels from the religion of Islaam. Rather, that with which we worship Allaah with is that the matters which have been mentioned by those who ascribe themselves to the da’wah are all acts of disobedience and sin and not kufr. Rather, all of that is kufr doona kufr, the lesser disbelief, meaning that there are certain acts of disobedience and major sins which negate the presence of perfect and complete Imaan for the one who commits them. But they do not negate the very basis of Imaan, as the Prophet (sallallaahu alaihi wasallam) said, "A fornicator does not fornicate while he fornicates and remain a believer (at that moment in time) and nor does a thief steal when he steals and remain a believer (at that moment in time)…" to the end of the hadith.

And there is no doubt that the Imaan that has been negated here is the perfect and complete Imaan. We ask Allaah – the Most High – that he grants us success in our religion and guides those and their likes to the truth.

My dear brother and sister reader – O one who has come to the Salafi methodology:

After these examples of the various [astray] ideas found in some of the callers of today, let alone the youth who have been deluded by them, who sit in front of these callers and take from them ideas and beliefs that destroy the Salafi aqidah, after all this you will say: Why should we not speak about the sects which have passed and yet their aqidah remains and their deviation is present in our midst?