Statement 2

The Noble Shaikh Rabee' also said, a few months later, in his introduction to ‘al-Hadd ul-Faasil’ which is a refutation of Shaikh Bakr Abu Zaid’s letter:

"In the Name of Allaah, Full of Mercy, Ever-Merciful (to His Believing Servants). All praise is due to Allaah and prayers and peace upon best of creation, Muhammad Bin Abdullaah, his family, his companions and whoever follows his guidance. To proceed: A few years ago four pages (of writings) came out and which were attributed to Shaikh Bakr Abu Zaid. So when I asked him about them, he became annoyed about them and also about those who had distributed them and he said to me, "These people want to cause separation between those who love each other".

And likewise, Shaikh Zaid bin Muhammad bin Haadee al-Madkhalee also asked him about these papers and so he reviled those who spread these papers. And also in front of others, [the Shaikh] made excuses and said that these papers were stolen from him and were spread without his consent and satisfaction.

And up until now, he has not officially and openly acknowledged them, and neither is he happy about them being printed and distributed, and hence, these papers are tantamount to a foundling (abandoned baby), with no legal father (as its claimant).

It is deserving for every sensible person that he should become ashamed on account of them, because the very one to whom they are attributed refuses to acknowledge them. And it is also deserving for the one who to whom they are attributed to be ashamed on account of them, since they defend falsehood and they also defend a very great strayer who gathered together the greatest of strayings and disgraces, amongst them: reviling the Messenger of Allaah from amongst the greatest of the messengers of Allaah, and from the greatest of the resolute (oulil-azm) is the Kaleem of Allaah Moosa (salallaahu alaihi wasallam), and amongst them: reviling the greatest of the companions of Allaah’s Messenger (sallallaahu alaihi wasallam), chief amongst them, Uthmaan (radiallaahu anhu) – rather Takfir of some of them and accusing others with hypocrisy, lying, bribery, buying the various (material) stocks and liabilities (from the Bayt ul-Maal) to the end of his despicable revilement of the companions of Muhammad (salallaahu alaihi wasallam) and may Allaah be pleased with them.

So say whatever you like in reprimand of these papers which have falsely been labelled "An-Nasihah adh-Dhahabiyyah" (The Golden Advice) and which have been distributed across the world with all intensity. And amongst their flaws is that they are more flimsy than the house of a spider due to their being devoid of truth, knowledge and justice. They do not do justice for those who were reviled by Sayyid Qutb amongst the Prophets and companions of Allaahs’ Messenger (salallaahu alaihi wasallam), and neither do they do justice to Islaam when Sayyid Qutb attributes the most evil of beliefs to it, the most astray of them being the belief of Wahdat ul-Wujood (Physical Unity of Existence) and that of Hulool (indwelling of Allaah) and denial (ta’teel) of Allaah’s attributes and belittling the miracles of the Muhammad (sallallaahu alaihi wasallam), and also his ascription of Marxist Socialism to Islaam, and also his belittlement of Islaam by saying:

"And it is necessary for Islaam to judge, since it is a unique, constructive and positivist aqidah which has been moulded and shaped from Christianity and Communism together, in the most perfect of ways and which comprises all of their (i.e Christianity and Communism’s) objectives and adds in addition to them harmony, balance and justice."

And other such misguidance.

However, the followers of every so and so make him revered and raised and so they grant him the position of the one who cannot be questioned as to what he does. And then they show loyalty and enmity for his sake and so they place themselves in the lowest of the levels of mankind, such that they have not sense or intelligence that will prevent them from this. So they do not follow the methodology of Islaam in their loyalty and disownment and in their rulings and their positions.

This is in fact the characteristic of the rowdy hooligans of every age and place, and it is with the likes of these such people that the Messengers, the righteous and the callers to truth are warred against in every time and place. And then from them emerge the lowly ones who then occupy the rank of the great ones – and then they become tawaagheet (who are obeyed and listened beyond their sharee’ah limits) on account of whom the true religion of Allaah and its callers are fought against.