 فشرف بالاشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دا دا دا لا وياله من شراف عظيمي now we're going to move on to the next root cause that brings about deviation and that is الحزبية الحزبية means sectarianism to be fanatic towards a particular group a particular individual if a person has his bia in him if a fanatic he's got fanaticism he definitely has to go against the قاعدة قاعدة انكار المنكر preventing evil and fighting against that which is harmful ونصح لله وليه رسولي advising the people to Allah and His Messenger he won't be able to do that if a person has his bia in him he can't do انكار المنكر because his bia is actually in a position to انكار المنكر ونصح لله وليه رسولي advising the people and calling them to Allah and His Messenger the reason why he can't do that is حتى لا يتفرق جمع الحزب he says that the group is going to be divided if I speak the truth if I talk that the group نعم he can't and the efforts of the group is going to become divided so because of that I won't be able to so he leaves off something which is حق the حق that he can't do and he can't fulfill which is انكار المنكر ونصح لله وليه رسولي he's not able to do it because of the group that he's from and the group that he is in وليه ذلك this is something that even the علماء the early scholars have pointed this out كشيخ الاسلام التيمية other than him شيخ الاسلام التيمية he says in his كتاب اقتباء سراط المستقيم لمخالفة أصحاب الجحيم the first volume page 86 شيخ الاسلام ابن التيمية he says the following he says he said this is tested with many people who attribute themselves to a particular group a particular sect in knowledge are we deal or in the religion they attribute themselves to a particular group in matters of knowledge or a deal or in the religion such as those who claim to have فق or will متصوفة or those who claim to have تصوف or غيرهم or other than them so for example you find فق issues meaning what اهل المدهب people have them adhub اهل التصوف who follow a particular طريقة or other than that for us today is going to be all the ahzab that we see today اخوان المسلمين حزب التحرير التبليغ حدث ولا حواج او او those groups if you look at them today they fall under this او الى رئيس المعظم عندهم في الديني غير النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم or they attribute themselves to a leader who is respected in the issues of the religion other than the prophet so there is a particular person now before the hizbih was for a group or it can actually be for a particular person pay attention to this that the issue of the thing that the person is attributed themselves to is not issues of علم or deen it is الى رئيس المعظم a leader that they honor here means a person of knowledge based so there is a fulan he is a sheikh of this country for instance everybody has تعظيم for him في الديني in matters of the religion that person isn't a prophet فإنهم لا يقبلون من الديني so they don't accept the religious matters رأيا ولا ورواية opinions or narrations إلا ما جاء تبهي طائفة to accept if it comes from the taifa that they attribute themselves to the taifa can either be here the group that they are from or they only accept it if the sheikh that they that they respect that they honor that they look up to say it انهم لا يعلمون but they don't know what to جبهوا طائفة to that which their group necessitates from their belief مع أن دين الإسلام يجب التباع الحق مطلقة even that though the religion of Islam it obliges in following the truth unrestrictedly رواية ورائيا in terms of narrations in terms of opinions من غير تعيين الشخص without specifying a person أو طائفة or a group غير الرسول غير الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم other than the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام شخص سلام is saying that the people are tested tested here means that they are tried with this issue is that they attribute themselves to a particular group in matters of the religion they say we're from this taifa we're from this group we're from this group we're from this group we're from this group we're from this group we're from this group we're from this group and runs the program and runs everything that معظم in the group of course it's not the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام so they don't accept anything unless the group and that it comes from the leader and then the group execute what he says so the truth is only what comes from here if anybody comes outside that's not part of the group and says يا إخوة الكرام this is the shara'a this is the ruling of the shari'a in this matter فإنهم لا يقبلونها they don't accept that and they reject it and they turn it away and they turn away from it pay attention to this when in reality ابن تيمى is saying that the religion of al-Islam commands us to follow the truth unrestrictedly from whoever it comes from whether it is narrations so here means that if the narrations come from أهل القوفة or it comes from أهل حجاز or it comes from بصرا it doesn't or misr or other than that no land is given virtue in terms of knowledge being taken from it another place or a group it can be a shafi' it can be a hambali it can be a there's no restriction of it being taken from a particular group or even من غير تعيين شخص or a specific individual you can't say I'm not going to take this opinion اللي شيخ فوزان سيزل هذا غير صحيح if another anima said it why are you going to restrict the acceptance of the truth on a particular person that's even if that's if the person is إيمان من أيما تسونا إيمان من أيما تسونا الشيخ صالح الفوزان right now if he's an iman as a man of علم رصوخ if we still don't restrict حقق to him if another anima brings evidences we take it حتى إذا طالب علم brings the truth we take it we don't restrict it to الشيخ صالح الفوزان or we don't restrict it عبد المحسابات we don't restrict to a particular person let alone if that person is a misguided person why are you going to restrict it to him he's not even a person of knowledge and he's not a person of what? the authority if matter gets worse أو طائفة إن غير رسول or you specifically said only when this my group says this I take it and anyone who today looks at the groups that are out there will clearly if he's a monstef if he's a monstef if he's a monstef fair person you will realise that this is very common on so many different people that they will only take the truth from a person who respects their الشيخ خلاص you respect my teacher do you respect this man you don't say anything about him okay بارك الله I remember one time I was invited at a masjid they invited me and I went to the masjid and they said to me what do you say about so and so this is not spubs so many people think this was the spubs it's the other side of spubs they invited me and they interrogated me regarding a particular person أسي أخي أنا عرفه I don't know the person you're talking about I don't know much about him I have no knowledge of this particular individual I don't know him and they said to me okay no problem as long as you don't say anything bad about him so this issue of حزبية عقد الولاء والبراء basing love and hate on a particular individual يا إخو هذه this is one of the things that what it's a root cause that deviate people from the straight path from the حق because why فإن الحية لا تؤمنوا علي الفتنة فإن الحية لا تؤمنوا علي الفتنة the one who is alive you cannot assure that they are free from trials and tribulations how many people who had knowledge and understanding of the religion but they apostated or they turned away from the religion if you connect your religion to the people then your religion is going to be destroyed are you with me brothers ولذلك what did the salaf used to say they used to say this is a very common statement of theirs they used to say I know the truth you know the truth I know the truth then you know who is carrying the truth and who is following the truth don't do the opposite that try to find the truth through the people that basically this person is the truth so anything that's in accordance to what he said is the truth that's not right that's not right that's wrong that is that this sheikh رحم الله is talking about him now this can be spread on different spectrums it can be spread on the overwhelming majority of Muslims today that's the issue they have ولذلك الشيخ العلامة فقيه الزمان بحمد الصالح رحمه الله he sent in his book كتاب العلم the book of knowledge right and he's translated in English he says يجب على طالب العلم أن يتخلع عن الطائفية والحزبية بحيث يعقد ولا أول برا على طائفة معينة أو على حزب حزب واحد ينضعون تحت قول الله تعز وجلة هو سماكم المسلمين من قبل بحمد الصالح يقول it is obligatory on every student of knowledge rather I can say that this is obligatory on every single Muslim but the author said on a student of knowledge because the book is talking about and he's talking and he's addressing who the students of knowledge what is it that they have to do themselves with أن يتخلع عن الطائفية والحزبية he has to get rid of and dismiss and eradicate from himself sectarianism بحيث يعقد ولا أول برا so what's the sectarianism that the author is talking about بحيث يعقد ولا أول برا على طائفة معينة أو على حزب where he bases allegiance and he bases this association on a particular group فهذا لا شك خلاف منهج السلاف this opposes the man had his self this opposes man had his self السلاف الصالح ليس أحزابا the salaf of the righteous were not groups هم حزبوا واحد they are one particular group they are the muslims they are the believers the muslims ينضون تحت قول الله تعالى and all of them brought them together هو السماكم المسلمين من قبل الله تعالى تعالى we have called you believers مسلمين before look at the statement of the author here which he says بحيث يعقد ولا أول برا على طائفة معينة أو على حزب معين today there are people if you satan يا أخي this taifa this particular group is misguided and there are many ملاحظات there are many mistakes that they are held against اجماعات that they have they have head butted so what can we say so why have you still why are you still fanatic about this particular group the minute you do that you lose allegiance you lose the brotherhood you lose disassociation based on what based on what على طائفة المعينة a particular group you go to abrilby you say why you go to you say to him why you go to you say why all of them you ask them why why this particular group these are the mistakes that this group has 1 2 3 4 5 6 يا أخي حديث ولا حرج the list goes on I'm just giving you just a minute a very small amount of mistakes that they have مجلدات volumes have been written about this if it was the books and the stuff that has been written on it if you threw in the ocean the ink might change the ocean يا أخي it's too much مع دائليك you're still fanatic about it you're still consistent in arguing for them and then guess what you lose you lose so all of the narrations that they were saying before that of what أخي smile in the face of your Muslim brother يا أخي show love to the Muslim belief that all goes all of those حديث all of it goes so when they were saying to you أخي smile in the face of the believer they met their group that's what they meant they met their particular group and the people who are of their group العلامة بكر من عبدالله أبو زيد رحمة الله has a book that deserves to be studied and I promise and inshallah it's one of the books in my mind that I'm going to go through which is حكم الانتماء إلى الفرق والأحزاب والجماعات الإسلامية he authored a book about attributing yourself to groups نعم attributing yourself to sex and groups he wrote a book on this أبو زيد رحمه الله رحمة نواسعة and as I said إن شاء الله we're going to go through it when he was mentioning the harms that it has and the problems that it has attributing yourself to a group giving allegiance and love and disassociation based on the group he said the following he said وفل حزبيتي بعثوا حرب الكلمة بنصب عوام الانتصاري والترجيح لأصول كل حزب وردي ما يخالفه he said when it comes to the issue of sectarianism about a group your group is that the person is going to reject the truth and that which is right all because why all because it goes against the أصول of the حزب it goes against the foundations in which the group is built on so any evidences that come they look at it through the lenses of their group any evidences which they can scrutinize and they can bend they'll bend it for the group those evidences that are not able to be bent they're too strong and they're too stiff it won't be able to be bent يضع افونه they weaken it or they discredit those who bring those evidences they take methods and طرخ this is the reality of it so حزبية is one of the root causes that brings about deviation and a person who has حزبية in him that individual you will find without a shadow of a doubt one of the things that they hate is what إنكار المكر and why my beloved brothers and sisters سلفيين are ones that even though they're together if one does a mistake he refutes them and he's happy with the refutation because what matters to them is not individuals there's not a a group that has to be protected يا أخي The Haq is what they brought them together and it's that Haq in which each person is trying to make sure that it's apparent ولدالك I'll tell you something very powerful الشيخ بلعثيمين did a mistake one time when he was talking about an issue pertaining to باب الأسماع والصفات شيخ محمد صالعثيمين when he came to the issue of Allah being above the throne he said a statement which we don't want to go into right now and he did a mistake شيخ حمود من عبد الله came across it so he wrote a refutation against شيخ من عثيمين he wrote a refutation the refutation is مطبوع متداول is present against who شيخ من عثيمين ابنه باز put a مقدمة on the تقديم of the book شيخ من عثيمين had that حمود من عبد الله was busy with the refutation against him he requested حمود من عبد الله to a jury to send him the refutation ابنه عثيمين read it and he put a تقديم for him on the book and that book is من شور spread today with the تقديم of شيخ من عثيمين and also شيخ عبد عزيز عبد الله من عبد الله the reason is because they're not a hizb which you have to look after a group the matter is الحق make the hack play to the people let the people be upon clarity and what is right from what is wrong شيخ من عثيمين was striving to what was right if he got it wrong then his brother who's his mirror his reflection corrected him he's happy and that's praiseworthy they on the other hand the حزبيين they will look at that and say look at you guys fighting they will use it as a to discredit you and say look at you fighting one another يا أخي is not just like the message عليه الصلاة والسلام said اللهم إني أبرأ إليك مما صنع خاليدا والله I free myself from what خاليد did the messenger was clarifying the hack and telling the people what was right and that what خاليد ابن الوليد رضي الله تعالى عنه وارضا did was wrong and the messenger would do that عليه الصلاة والسلام كذب أبو سلاب أبو سلاب lied the messenger clarified عليه الصلاة والسلام all of this for what reason يا أخي إظهار الحق this truth has to be protected but the people of the حزب the hack is not as important to them as the group is the group is more important the individual is more important than the truth so the honor and the reputation of the person takes presidents over the truth وَلَا يُبَالُونَ so they don't really care if the truth is dismissed or it is destroyed to the extent that when somebody comes out and then makes sure that the truth is brought out to the people and he tries to explain the truth to the people he is called an overzealous person so yeah overzealous he's got too much zeal in him instead of what instead of because if they accept that from you people are going to say يا أخي five years you've been doing that yourself وما يستقيم وما يستقيم you've been fooling us then until Allah brought this person so the people are going to see his mistakes and his shortcomings they're going to turn away from him and they're going to listen to this person so he has to be from his greatest enemies and it takes a lot of hard work and it takes a lot of sincerity and a lot of to say that I was wrong and fool animals right it takes a lot out of a person it takes a lot and this is a sign of a مخلص sincere person and this is what the scholars have shown this is what our scholars have shown وذلك شيق ابل القيب رحمه الله العلمة ابل القيب in one of these books I read a story that a teacher was asked a question a teacher was asked a question and the teacher wasn't able to answer the question so he said لا أدري I don't know and this is a characteristic that a Muslim should have when a question is asked and put to you and you don't know it you should say لا أدري I don't know the scholars they used to say the person who does not say لا أدري when he does it now will see but مقاتلوا destruction is on his way that scholar wrote a book on it just one book is called لا أدري I don't know he brought the statement all the علماء who said لا أدري and as you know a man came up to him and asked him questions he traveled from a very far distance and he asked him questions 40 something different mentioned different figures but every question that was put to him he kept saying لا أدري لا أدري لا أدري لا أدري one or two of the questions he answered so the man said to him I traveled all this far for you so you can tell me now somebody would say يا أخي if I say لا أدري I don't know people are going to think I'm a jahil I don't even know the religion يا أخي you don't even know the basics of the deen يا أخي don't let that get to you don't let that get to you know that you're saving yourself from a greater destruction it's better I am ignorant of this particular issue and I say I don't know and I come across as an ignorant person then put in myself forward in answering a question which in reality I didn't know and I got it wrong and then I come to Allah I get punished for speaking without knowledge و لا تقولوا لما تصف وألسنا تقوموا الكديب هذا حلان و هذا حرام و لا تفتروا على الله الكديب إن الذين افترون على الله الكديب لا يفلحون ولا تقفوا ما ليس لك بيعلم إن السمعة والبصر والفؤاد كل أولئك كان عنه مسؤولة لا تتحدث عن ذلك و أنت لا تفهم و لذلك الشخص يقول لا أدري نسف العلم شخص يأتي لا أدري is half of knowledge right someone said it say it twice full you got full knowledge لا أدري you have a complete knowledge what it means is that when you say لا أدري you are actually you've come with half of it which is that you know you don't know so you're now going to be pursuing it و لذلك جهل و مركب is a problem right a compounded ignorance is that a person won't move forward because he believes he knows so what the scholars mean by لا أدري is that once you say I don't know the second step is what go and embark on the path for gaining it so that means it's as they say a good dream is half the bottle to dream it is wanting something the next thing that's missing from you is the execution of your dream so that's why you just have to come with the second half anyways the teacher said لا أدري I don't know when the question was put to him so what happened was that a student of his said I know مرقيم is mentioned in his books the student came and I said he said I know so the teacher took it very personal became very upset and very annoyed with how dare does the student speak in a matter which I am the teacher who said I don't know how dare so he planned to punch the student and make the student suffer because of this statement of his so the student responded to the teacher when he saw that the teacher got upset he said to the teacher you are oh my teacher you are not more knowledgeable than Suleiman and I am not more ignorant than the hud hud didn't Allah say in the Quran when Suleiman was looking for the hud hud he said why is it that I don't see the hud hud أمكان من الغائبين or is it from me it's not here today because Suleiman commanded everybody to come together and hud hud is not here so he went and guess whose command Suleiman so he said I am going to punish the hud hud in a way to punish birds is that you not to kill it so he said I am going to punish the hud hud in a way to punish birds is that you not to kill it so he said so the way he was planning to scholars some of them mentioned that he was going to peel all of its wings off sorry his feathers off I would just put it out in the sun and it would burn to death out of thirst and tie it down or I am going to kill it or I am going to slaughter it anyways the point is or it's going to come with to me أولا يأتي أني بالسلطاني مبين and based on تفسير and this is not known as تفسير بكلية بكلية المعالي which is that every place that the word سلطاني comes in the Qur'an it means حجة we've taken this so he will come to me with a proof meaning knowledge based argument so what did the hoot would come hoot would came back to سليمان and he said to سليمان أحط بمعلم تحرط به واجئ توكب سبع بنبع يقين أحط I have encompassed a matter I have come to know of a matter أحط بمعلم تحرط به you don't know this issue and hoot hoot is not as noble as نبي الله سليمان so the student is trying to say to the teacher if hoot hoot came to know something that سليمان didn't and I am his individual right about say that so the Arabs they say أقحمه سينس the teacher صح أقحمه سينس the teacher the point I'm saying to you here is is that that's how the religion is the truth is mentioned and it's uttered and it's said and every single person strives to making sure that the truth is respected and when it comes to dealing with the scholars and their mistakes we've already spoken about that just because a scholar has done a mistake that does not mean you put him down but that doesn't also mean that the truth is been signed we're signed about the truth because of his honor pay attention just because of the sheikh's honor the truth is we say that we say that it's going to discredit the sheikhs so we're not going to speak about it that's incorrect the truth is spread it's told his mistake is told to the people that it was wrong what he said but his reputation and his honor is not put down so the people of a group that's one thing which they are unable to do which is they can't do إنكاره مكره أن نصف لي الله وليه رسولي وليه ذلك some of the shocking things والله brothers you guys are youngsters brothers a lot of you guys are not aware of these groups I come from a country where this is very common there are many groups we have a letter تصارب they used to be known as which is a branch from the point is that look what they will do when the person gets out of hand like sometimes not everybody's the same somebody would see the مكر he'll be silent for the group when he sees another مكر he'll be silent because of the group but as time goes on he can't handle it anymore so he comes out and he writes a bayan look this is wrong this is wrong that's what they do when he does that they disassociate themselves from him and they alienize him and marginalize him and push him to the side and they tell the people this man was always overzealous he was always he was never right in his mind and attached negative connotation negative things to him the question arises that why are you doing it now let's just say hypothetically you guys are right he was always like that why now why was it when he was in the group you never did that because in the group every bartender and every مكر can be there but now he's harming the group not that he's harming the truth so even when they do refute that person or they criticize him don't take it from them they're just doing it because he went he went against the group and when he did that I'll show you somebody who was part of a group or is part of the same ideology he was with them and they were with him and he did the تكفير of the group I don't ever mention the name but there's a Somali and تكفير today when he comes out on YouTube and stuff and he has and he lives in Nairobi those who know what I'm saying will know there's a group in Somalia known as الإعتصام he did تكفير of them على بكري أبيه على بكري أبيه every member he did تكفير on them تكفير وعين specifically the كفار he permitted their blood it used to be part of them it was once upon a time a person they used to use as a merger that's what they used to do but the minute he what he started to تكفير on them he became a what تكفير خارجي وعلوم مجطوى is that something a Salafi would take from them a person who studied the books of the sunnah لا ever done no he knows by default that you guys are refuting him on the different bases of what we were refuting in the first place yeah you're refuting on the bases that he's actually now come to the حزب and the group and you're just fighting with him based on he's leaving of the حزب and him doing تكفير of the حزب but our issue is of them اعتقاد in the belief of this person and the حق in which he has gone against so pay attention to that حزبي my beloved brothers and sisters it extinguishes the work of what of ونصع just all of that for what reason the voice of the group the group even sometimes they will beautify for you and they will say to you اخي why are you dividing them Muslims اخي I'm not dividing them they're Muslims who said that all the Muslims are اخوان المسلمين who said that all the Muslims are حزب who said that to you when did you get that from اخي I'm just speaking about a group I'm speaking about a misguided group of people so this is very important ان شاء الله I'm going to conclude on that last root cause which is ان شاء الله تأ grab tomorrow's session ان شاء الله I'm going to carry on the other remaining root causes that bring about deviation ان شاء اللهgehو س كان