Importance of Walaa and Baraa

The distinguished carrier of the flag of Jarh Wa Ta’deel in this time- even if the noses of others are turned up- the Muhaddith Ash Shaikh Rabee’ As Sunnah, may Allah preserve him, said:

May Allah give us and you his guidance and may he return us and you to the Manhaj of the Salaf Us Salih. Because verily, by Allah, there is a divide here between us and the Manhaj of the Salaf Us Salih, I ask Allah to return us to it.

And from the most important of it is allegiance and disassociation (Walaa Wal Baraa) as the Messenger said: “The most sturdy handhold of Imaan is loving for Allah and hating for Allah.” So at this time is this principle existant within us or did others take it away from us?

The principle of love and hate for Allah is this existant now in us?
Is everyone upon this? No by Allah… the current situation, and we know that now that the biggest testimony to this is that we don’t take this current situation seriously. Not so?

We felt this with our hands now that we find our youths with the people of innovations, those who have gone beyond the bounds and are oppressors… therefore is this Walaa and Baraa (for Allah’s sake)?

The statement of the Messenger is a proof upon us where he said: “Verily the souls are like platoons, whichever one knows the other will unite and whichever one dislikes the other it will disagree, a person is with whom he loves and they will be raised with such people. They loved them and their hearts and souls united with them and their hearts and souls have become distant with many of the Salafis.

Therefore my brothers we have to repent to Allah because we have done major oppresion and we have entered into a dangerous deviation therefore we have to return to Allah and return to the truth and return to the chapters of Walaa and Baraa and learn them my dear brothers.

And from the books dealing with this are:

• Khalq ‘Afaal Al ‘Ibaad by Imam Al Bukhari and look at the stance of the Salaf toward the people of innovation.
• And also Al I’tisaam by Imam Ash Shatibi
• The Sunnah by Abdillah Ibn Ahmad
• Ash Sharee’ah by Al Ajurri,
• Sharh Usuul Al ‘Itiqaad Ahlus Sunnah by Al Lalakaaee
• The Ibanatain (As Sughra and Al Kubrah) by Ibn Battah.

The one who does not read these books will not recieve clarity in understanding the Manhaj of the Salaf especially in the chapters of Walaa and Baraa. The enemies of Salafeeyah have wiped off the topic of Walaa and Baraa, they have wiped it clean off from the pages of the Salafi Manhaj therefore we have to return to this topic and learn it and preserve it and follow the way of the Salaf Us Salih may Allah be pleased with them.

Source: Tape: The effect of the Book and the Sunnah; side 2 from 37:53-40:16

I (Musa Millington) say: It is so true when the Shaikh said:

We find our youths with the people of innovations, those who have gone beyond the bounds and are oppressors

To add, Shaikh ‘Abdul ‘Azeez Rayyis mentioned that from the reasons by which a person may go astray is because he does not read the books of the Salaf. And from those which are available in English are:

1. The Explanation of the Creed : Imam Al Barbahari

2. The foundations of the Sunnah: Imam Ahmad

3. The belief of the people of the Sunnah the people of Hadeeth: Imam As Sabuuni.

4. The Belief of the Raaziyain.

And others.

Anwar Al Alwaki’s statement about the Muslim governments

This is only part of what he said from the title:

Could Yemen be the Next Surprise of the Season?

And when this new front of Jihad starts in Yemen it might become the single most important front of Jihad in the world.

Why? First, the Arabian Peninsula has always been a land of mujahedeen even though there has been no fighting occurring on its soil. In Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, and Iraq the participation of mujahedeen from the Arabian Peninsula represented the largest block of foreign mujahedeen. When Jihad starts in the Arabian Peninsula, Jihad would be coming back to its home.

Second, he Arabian Peninsula is home to Makkah and Madinah. To free the Holy places from the rule of apostasy and tyranny is to free the heart of Islam.
Third, the rulers in the Arabian Peninsula are playing a central role in the fight against Islam especially the al Saud family. The al Saud of today are the Abdullah bin Ubay of yesterday. They have perfected the art of hypocrisy.  They fight Islam in the name of Islam. They wear cloaks of sheep on hearts of wolfs. There cannot be Islamic rule and a return to khilafah without removing them from existence and this is the responsibility of the mujahedeen of the Arabian Peninsula.
America and its allies in the area are plotting against the mujahedeen, nevertheless their growth increases by the day. May Allah grant the true believers victory and grant them steadfastness on His path.
Their intention is to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will complete His light even thought the disbelievers may detest it. (al Saff 61)

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Rather I think that we should analyze the real motive for moving the cause of “Jihaad” to Yemen. And in reality it is not because the likes of Al Qa’eda and its cohorts are passionate about establishing Islam. Rather they look to extinguish the Sunnah. Because think of it, the Saudi government teaches Salafeeyah in its schools and establishes Tawheed, and the Yemeni Shuyuukh have established Salafeeyah in Yemen to the point that this is what most of the people want. So why Yemen now?

It is in reality a plan to establish chaos in lands that are known for Tawheed and the Sunnah. And the Khawarij and the Shee’ah are known for co-operating with the Kuffar to extinguish the light of Islam. And to this the Messenger صلى الله عليه و سلم said: Every generation they come out they are cut until they come out with the Dajjal.

And when we look at this post of Anwar Awlaki it is clear to anyone who has even the slightest knowledge of Da’wah As Salafeeyah that this man is a Khaariji and if he dies, as what has been suspected, he would have died as one of the dogs of the hellfire. And as Abu Umaamah said when he saw them lieing dead: “The dogs of the hellfire, the dogs of the hellfire, the dogs of the hellfire.”
Now look what Awlaki describes the Sa’uud family with:

• Apostacy
• Perfecting the art of hypocricy
• Fighting Islam in the name of Islam
• He also said they have to be removed and this is the responsibility of the “Mujahideen” in the Arabian peninsula.

So we see that clearly this man carries the Madhab of the first Khawarij where he calls the Muslim rulers apostates, hypocrites and urges the rebels to remove the rulers.  And from our Usuul is that

We do not call Muslims Kaafir unless the Kufr is clear because of the statement of the Messenger صلى الله عليه و سلم :” Whoever says to his brother O Kaafir it has come upon one of them.” And secondly we do not fight the Muslim rulers even if they are oppresive. And that fighting them is transgression and treason. And this is what the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم described them with: “They fight the people of Islam and leave off the people who worship idols.”

So with all of this, isn’t it enough that the one who is sincere leave off the tapes of this innovator who has disguised the truth with falsehood in his tapes? Who calls to “Jihaad” against the Muslims in the lands of the Muslims? This by Allah is mischief, and to this I urge my brothers to carry this man’s case to the Ulama in Yemen so that they can deal with him. And I thank my brother in Salafeeyah Abu Hakeem Bilaal Davies for further exposing this ignorant man and to keep up with the good work.

Da’wah in Trinidad- Part 9- Patience

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Inshallah ta’ala. I would like to give my Salafi brothers news of what is occuring in Trinidad. So maybe I can get some advice and suggestions from some of the students of knowledge concerning this country.

In the South of Trinidad the da’wah is now beginning to be established. However, it is an effort which has to start from scratch. Alhamdu lillah so far I have a class on Tawheed in Iere village Masjid, I give Khutbahs in Masjid Ahaad with a brother named Amron and also I give sessions in Arabic, Tawheed and Tajweed in Williamsville Masjid on Sunday mornings. So far the response has been quite good from the people toward this Da’wah. And there are many positives being in South from them:

• The people are generally a very humble and courteous people.
• They are very organized.

However, there is one negative in that many of them have not been nurtured upon seeking knowledge and I think this is due to the callers not paying attention to this part of Trinidad. However,  I have seen that this is changing. People are starting to bring their notebooks and pens and they pay attention during class time. So, personally, although there a few Salafis in south I see a very bright future for this Da’wah once those who are responsible act upon the book of Allah and the Sunnah of his Messenger (صلى الله عليه و سلم).

As for North Trinidad there is much confusion due to the following:

• Pre-Madonnas- And this is a category of youngsters who know a little bit of Arabic and think that they are Shaikh Ul Islam Ibn Taymeeyah. Therefore, although they are lacking sound knowledge in areas of ‘Aqeedah and Manhaj they are arrogant when advice, correction and clarification comes to them. My advice to them is the statement of the Salaf: “Loving to be known breaks the backs.”
• Then there are those who are soft toward the people of innovation and harsh toward the callers of the Sunnah. They are adamant in getting a disparagement from the scholars on callers toward the Sunnah. Yet you find them getting fluttered when the scholars disparage those who callers who speak ill of the Da’wah As Salafeeyah and the ‘Ulama.
• Then there are those who involve themselves in secrecy and no doubt those who do so are upon innovation as the scholars have said in the past.

And this is what the Da’wah in North has been classified with since those who do what has been mentioned above choose not to return to the Qur’an, the Sunnah and the statements of our Salaf. And whomsoever continues with such pride and arrogance after clear guidance has come to him will without doubt be destroyed.

Also myself and Salahudeen Abdul  Haqq conduct classes in Masjid Ibaadur Rahmaan in north Trinidad. Salahudeen, who was the first to ever use the word Salafi on the Minbar in Trinidad teaches 6 days per week and I teach only on Saturdays. And upon the advice of two Shaikhs, Shaikh Muhammad Al Maliki and Shaikh Abdul Hameed Al Haajuri we decided to just teach those who want to benefit and not bother about those who care not to heed any advice. And by Allah’s this is of tremendous benefit since the brothers are learning and time is not being wasted. Secondly, without calling any Shaikh or student of knowledge, those who have hidden in their hearts love for fame and their desires are being exposed daily.

In conclusion, right now in Trinidad it is a time of cleansing where Allah is testing those who truly hold onto the Sunnah and those who say on their tongues what is not within their hearts. And after this hardship I know that Allah will bring ease since this is what he himself has promised this in his book. So my dear brothers and sisters, make Du’a for this Da’wah to be one that is upright, clear and pure and not one that is mixed up with the deviant methodologies of the Ikhwaan Al Muslimeen, the She’ah and other than them. Allah is the guardian of this and has the power to do so.

Musa Millington

Anwar Al Awlaki: A Danger to the Ummah

Q]: The praise is for Allaah, and may the peace and salutations of Allaah be upon the Messenger of Allaah and upon his Family and his Companions and upon those who follow the guidance.  To proceed:

 

So these are some of the statements of one of the du’aat (callers), his name is Anwar al-Awlaki.  You will find these statements on his official website.  We present them to the noble Shaykh ‘Ubayd Ibn ‘Abdillaah al-Jaabiree – (may Allaah preserve him) – so that he may comment upon them so we can then spread the answers and the comments among the brothers here in America and in Britian and throughout the West in general.

 

The first statement: “The rulers in the Arabian Peninsula are playing a central role in the fight against Islam especially the al Saud family. The al Saud of today is the Abdullah bin Ubay of yesterday.”

 

And he says in the second statement: “May this be the beginning of the greatest Jihad, the Jihad of the Arabian Peninsula that would free the heart of the Islamic world from the tyrants who are deceiving the ummah and standing between us and victory.”  Should I – O Shaykh – mention the third statement as well or can I suffice with this?

 

 

[A]: Present the third statement.

 

[Q]: And the third is that this man says: “The Jihad in Somalia should carry on until the last AU soldier leaves the country and any forces that side with the AU -including the Sharif government -and Sharif is the president who won the recent election – become legitimate targets.”

 

So what is your comment upon these statements, may Allaah bless you?

 

[A]: With the name of Allaah.  The praise is for Allaah and may peace and salutations be upon his servant and Messenger Muhammad and upon his Family and all of his Companions.

 

The summary of what has become apparent to me from these three statements that you have quoted from a specific forum or a specific website for Anwar al-Awlaki, and the name Awlaki (‘Awlaqee) proves that the origin of this man is Yemeni.  The essence of what is comprised within these statements – in that which is apparent to me – are two affairs:

 

The first affair: is his ignorance concerning the fiqh of Jihaad.  And that he does not know anything about the Jihaad, which is from the well-planned obligations that Allaah has established up until Allaah causes the earth and whosoever is upon it to perish.

 

And I suspect that this man has become polluted by the ideas of Sayyid Qutb al-Misree and similar to him are Aboo Qataad, Aboo Muhammad al-Maqdisee and many others besides them. All of these individuals and the same applies to this man have been influenced by the likes of Sayyid Qutb; and Sayyid Qutb, according to the people of research and experience with examining statements, is the flag bearer of takfeer in this time. His book, Ma’aalim fit-Tareeq (Milestones) proves this clearly as Sayyid erroneously and falsely declared the entire Ummah to be disbelievers, the rulers and their subjects.

 

And Jihaad according to Ahlis-Sunnah, who have inherited from Muhammad (sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) the correct understanding of the religion, the correct understanding of worship and the correct understanding of social dealings, this Jihaad is of two categories:

 

Jihaadut-Talab (the offensive Jihaad) and Jihaadud-Daf’ (the defensive Jihaad).  Jihaadut-Talab is to mobilize the troops and to dispatch the armies and to prepare sufficient equipment in order to fight whosoever is surrounding them from the disbelievers to make the word of Allaah uppermost.  And this is the responsibility and special role of the Muslim ruler.  He is the one who can call to such an act, he is the one who establishes this and he himself is the one who leads it or he appoints someone to lead a military detachment.

 

So whosoever calls to Jihaad in a general manner (without consideration of the legislated prerequisites or guidelines), then he is one of two men, either he is ignorant concerning the fiqh of Jihaad or he is a person of desires who is misguided and misguiding others, an innovator.  And regardless of whether he is the former or the latter, it is obligatory upon the Ummah to be cautious of him and to have hatred for him.  And it is obligatory upon the Scholars to refute him and to warn against him.

 

The second is Jihaadud-Daf’, and this is to defend against the assailant and the transgressor.  So when an assailant and a transgressor from the disbelievers attacks and transgresses against a Muslim country, then it is permissible for the people of that country to defend themselves and to resist the attack in order to stop its evil and to challenge its deception.  It is a required condition that they must have the ability and the strength to do this.  So if they have the ability and the strength, they can mobilize themselves to defend against the subjugation of the transgressing party and to defeat its endeavour and to reject its tyranny.

 

If they do not have the ability and the strength for that, then they have two choices: they can either flee with their Religion and their honour to wherever they will be safe, or they can seek a treaty of peace with this tyrannical enemy and they can make contracts and agreements with him to preserve and safeguard the territory of the people of al-Islaam.

 

Therefore, it can be concluded from this that the required condition for Jihaadut-Talab (the offensive Jihaad) is the ruler, since it is from his special functions.  And the required condition for Jihaadud-Daf’ (the defensive Jihaad) is the strength and ability to carry it out.  And strength and ability are necessary for both of these acts in order to defeat the endeavour of the enemies of Allaah.

 

The second matter that has become apparent from the first two statements is that this man harbours resentment against the Arabian Peninsula and he harbours resentment against the rulers from al-Saud.  And due to this, he has described them with kufr (disbelief) or nifaaq (hypocrisy) or both of them.  The crime of al-Saud according to him and his likes from the people of desires, splitting and the Khawaarij is that their nation is a nation of Tawheed and the Sunnah – every person of Sunnah testifies to this.  And their nation has been the flag bearer of Tawheed and the Sunnah since its inception at the hand of al-Imaam Muhammad Ibn Sa’ood – may Allaah have mercy upon him; and verily it gives victory to Tawheed and the Sunnah.

 

Shaykh Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdul-Wahhaab called to Tawheed and the Sunnah and the Imaam, the Ameer Muhammad Ibn Sa’ood used to aid him and defend him and he used to defend his call.  And the fruit of that effort was that Allaah made this righteous Imaam, al-Mujaahid strong and influential due to his raising the flag of Tawheed and the Sunnah- I deem him as such and Allaah is his Reckoner.  From the fruits of this da’wah was the establishment of a mighty nation.  It has taken on the burden of establishing the Religion.  And there is no person of Sunnah, except that his heart is with this nation. Likewise, it has taken on the political and economic burden.  So these are all fruits of aiding Tawheed and the Sunnah.

The Khawaarij in every time and place have always had enmity towards Ahlus-Sunnah, the rulers and their subjects, because Ahlus-Sunnah are the farthest of the people from takfeer (wrongfully labelling a Muslim a disbeliever), let alone tabdee’ (declaring someone an innovator) and tafseeq (declaring someone a disobedient sinner), except with a proof that obligates takfeer, or tabdee’ or tafseeq of the individual.  And this is known to those who are familiar with the history of Ahlus-Sunnah and their written works.  However, the one who has been overwhelmed by malice and desire has become deep-rooted within him, then he opposes Ahlus-Sunnah and displays enmity towards them.

 

So it is not strange that Awlaki should take this path, since he has a predecessor and he himself is from the later followers. Consequently, I warn the Muslims firstly against this man and I call upon them to boycott him and to severe ties with him and to refute him with a knowledge based refutation that will expose his call and reveal his true condition and show that he is an enemy to the people of Islaam and the Sunnah.  This individual and his likes are from those who have disfigured the image of Islaam and the image of the people of al-Islaam to the extent that they have driven those who do not possess intellect from the Jews and the Christians to attack the personality of the Messenger of Allaah and to degrade the Mushaf. This is because due to their lack of intellect and due to their lack of knowledge about Islaam and its people they think that him, his predecessors and his contemporaries represent the people of Islaam; and that this path of theirs is the true path of the people of Islaam and that transgressing against the honour, wealth and the lives of others, and that the nullifying of contracts and ratified treaties between our rulers and the rest of the non-Muslim nations of the world, such as those of Europe and America, then these feeble-minded fools and those who have been deprived of justice and fairness, they think that this is the Islaam that we practice.

 

So how astonishing it is that America let this man remain therein, yet it raises its voice to say that it opposes terrorism, and as for us then we say that they are Khawaarij. Indeed this man and his likes are the terrorists that the Europeans, Americans and the Western world in general refer to, and I think that even the non-Muslims from the people of the East like Russia have labelled them with this title.  So these individuals in reality are the instruments of terrorism and they are the river from which the Khawaarij draw out what they draw out to support their transgression against the people of Islaam and the Sunnah, and for their transgression against those whom we have contracts and treaties with (i.e. the non Muslim states), since they do not recognize any contract or treaty.  They only declare people disbelievers en masse.

 

This is what I liked to make note of and I ask Allaah, the Glorified and Most High to keep the people of al-Islaam away from every evil and detestable thing and to withhold from them the evil of the Khawaarij, whether they are the Khawaarij who sit and incite others or whether they are the ones who physically participate themselves; and that He keeps the misery of the Khawaarij among their own selves and that He allows the Muslims to see a lesson in them; and that He seizes the Khawaarij with a mighty and strong seizure and that He makes them a lesson for those who take heed.

 

And may the peace and salutations of Allaah be upon our Prophet Muhammad and his Family and all of his Companions.  This was dictated by one in need of Allaah: ‘Ubayd Ibn ‘Abdullaah Ibn Sulaymaan al-Jaabiree, a former professor at the Islamic University of al-Madeenah.  And the date of this discussion was Wednesday night, the 23rd of Dhul-Qa’dah, in the year 1430H, corresponding to the 11th of November in the year 2009.  And success is with Allaah.  And may the peace and salutations of Allaah be upon our Prophet Muhammad and his Family and all of his Companions.

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Notes:

This man called Anwar Al Awlaki is indeed a great danger to this Ummah. Particularly to our english speaking brothers and sisters. People like him put poison and mixed it honey until everyone who drinks it perishes. He started with soft topics such as the stories of the Prophets and when the people grew to trust him he started to introduce these matters of Jihaad.

And there are three people you do not trust in this religion as the Imams of the past said: A storyteller, An innovator who refutes an innovator and a Sufi. As for the storyteller he may either relate weak Ahadeeth or call the people to his way using these stories.

Also, I happened to go in a site that has many of his lectures like: “Can the people trust the scholars of the Ummah.” Subhan Allah, the Ulama who follow the Manhaj of the Salaf are those who Allah has made the inheritors of the Prophets. So who is Anwar Al Awlaki to question the trustworthiness of the scholars of Ahlus Sunnah?

And then he speaks about Jihaad and the youths are fooled by his speech. And what does he speak about? He speaks about dethroning Muslim monarchies. That is not called Jihaad, rather it is called rebellion and the person who does so is a rebel and is treated as such. And the youths, even those in Trinidad and Tobago who listen to his tapes speak about armed revolution!!

Why don’t they make Jihaad in seeking knowledge? Why don’t they make Jihaad in acting upon it? Why don’t they beat up their pillows to pray Qiyaamul Lail? Why don’t they make Jihaad against the people who are making Shirk, who seek intercession from the Messenger (Salallahu Alaihi wa sallam) without asking Allah’s permission, who go to magicians and sorcerers and even read the horoscopes? But no they would not and it is because they do not understand the Kalimah of Tawheed which is the base and the head of this Islam.

They do not even understand La Ilaha Ill Allah. Instead of saying that Ilah is Ma’buud (the one who is worshipped) they say that Ilah is Haakim (the one who governs)! I ask them the following questions:

If it is that La Ilaha Ill Allah means no governance except Allah why did the Quraish understand from the Messenger (Salallahu Alaihi wa sallam) that it meant not to worship Laat and Uzza? Because if it was that La Ilaha Ill Allah was no governance except Allah the Huduud (punishments) would have been implemented from the first day of Islam.

Secondly I ask them what is the reason that the Ayah: “And the one who does not govern by what Allah rules by is a Kaafir?” The answer is that there were two parties of Jews who went to the Prophet (Salallahu Alaihi wa sallam) and when the Prophet (Salallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) gave a ruling they still disputed. And to this Allah sent that verse, and it shows that the verse refers to the ruler and also the ruled since the Prophet (Salallahu Alaihi wa sallam) was the ruler in Madinah.

Thirdly where does the word Ilah mean ruler in the Arabic language? I remember I was in Ittikaaf and an arrogant one from them said: “I am going to proove to you that Abu Lahab knew that he knew the meaning of La Ilaha Ill Allah better than the Saudi Salafis.”  So I said wait a minute are you saying that Ilah means ruler? Where you get that from in the Arabic language? And I told him to leave my presence and go and learn the Kalimah. Why was I so harsh? Because many of them are arrogant and speak about politics and this one is Kaafir and that one is Kaafir and they do not even know the meaning of the Kalimah that takes one out of Kufr. And to end I will just translate a poem I saw in a book:

A wise donkey said once

If time was good to me I would have been riding

For my ignorance is small

And my companion his ignorance is compunded.

My brothers and sisters. Do not listen to such people who have no knowledge whatsoever of these matters. The matters of Jihaad are left to the scholars and the rulers as the scholars are the ones who know its issues and the rulers are the ones who enforce it. Allah said: “And if a matter of safety or fear comes they announce it. And if they return it to the Messenger and the people in authority they would know who would have the ability to extrapolate the matter.”

Musa Millington

Mis clases en Espanol

Assalamu alaikum hermanos y hermanas.

En los martes comienzo los clases sobre el tawheed a las diez de la noche, hore Nueva York. La primera letra sera el significo de la ilaha ill allah del Shaikh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab.

Las clases seran en Paltalk en el cuadro “La comprehension del Islam”

Assalamu Alaikum