 وَأَقُولُوا فِي القُرْآنِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِيهِ اَيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ المُنزَالُونَ وَأَقُولُوا قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُوهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُونَ الحمد لله الذي شرح صدور أهل الإسلام للهدى ونكت في قلوب أهل الطغيان فلا تعيي الحكمة أبداه وشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له إله أحدا فردا صمدا لم يتخذ صاحبة ولا ولدا وشد أن محمد عبده ورسوله ما أعظمه عبدا وسيدا وأكرمه أصلا ومحتدا وأبهره صدرا وموردا وأطهره مضجعا ومولدا صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه غيوث الندى وليوث العدى صلاة وسلاما دائما إني من اليوم إلا أن يبعث الناس غدا أما بعدو أم بحب البردن سيستز إن شاء الله تعالى I want to start a series A 12 part series Where I talk about the da'a of الإمام محمد بن عبد الوهاب The da'a of the Imam محمد بن عبد الوهاب Has become a controversial issue Many are speaking about it Many are discussing it And each person Based on whatever they have Their preconceived notion Their belief Their upbringing They've reached a conclusion regarding this Imam Some for him and some against him So it's at a time like this That the life of this man What his da'a was built upon Should be discussed and spoken about I want to Speak about the reality of his da'a In 12 parts But before I start those 12 parts Or before I go into the topic at hand I want to start with an introduction This introduction allows me then To go into the topic at hand And Imam محمد بن عبد الوهاب His da'a الإصلاحية This da'a of his In which he wanted to revive The misconceptions and the mistakes That people have fallen into He was aided in this da'a of his And he was supported By the Amir محمد بن سعود And this da'a of محمد بن عبد الوهاب It spread around the world It spread first of all in the Arabian Peninsula And then it spread to the neighboring countries And then it spread around the globe Some people became happy with this da'a And they were pleased with this da'a And others became saddened and hurt And upset with his da'a And we'll see why this was the case And what was the reason of many Who supported him And those who spoke against his da'a But what I want to say is Any da'a that stands on two things Becomes generally successful And it spreads Those two things are A scripture A revelation that guides And constitutions To execute that revelation That has to be a system A government That's able to execute That is able to fulfill What is in that scripture What is in that revelation Any da'a that receives those two Becomes successful and it spreads Around the world If you look at the da'a Of the Imam محمد بن حبل Without a doubt he had support Or he had the revelation He had the Quran and he had the sunnah رحمه الله But he didn't have A government that aided him And supported him The same with Shaykh الاسلام ابن تيميا He had the revelation He had the Quran and he had the sunnah But he didn't have a government To back him And to support him And to aid him But Shaykh الاسلام محمد بن عبد الهاب He had that He had the Quran and the sunnah with him And he also had a government That was able to Execute what was in the Quran and the sunnah ابن تيميا said in his كتاب الفتاة والخبرة Page 115 he said ولا يقوم الدين The religion will never be established Or the religion can't be established إلا بالكتاب والميزان والحديد Shaykh الاسلام ابن تيميا The book And i.e. the book here refers to the Quran And the sunnah It refers to the book of Allah And the prophetic tradition والميزان And the scale The scale here is referring to The fitrah The natural disposition The natural disposition That when the Quran and the sunnah comes It goes hand in hand with the fitrah فأقم وجهك للدين حنيفة فطرة الله التي فطرة الناس عليها لا تبديل لخلق الله ذلك الدين القيم ولكن أكثر الناس لا يعلمون That the Quran and the sunnah They go in line with This fitrah This innate ability The third which is والحديد The hadid here means Which is the third It's referring to A government that can execute And exercise That which is in the Quran and the sunnah Or else it just becomes theories But the government and the system Puts these laws into practice Shaykh الاسلام المتيمية he says والن يقوم الدين The religion will not be established except with these three كتاب يهدي وحديد ينصر And he got it from the ayah where Allah said لقد أرسلنا رسلنا بالبينات وأنزلنا معهم الكتابة والميزان اليقوم الناس بالقصط وأنزلنا الحديد فيه بأس شديد ومنافع للناس Shaykh الاسلام المتيمية he says فالكتاب به يقوم العلم والدين والميزان به تقوم الحقوق في الحقود المالكية والقبوض والحديد به تقوم الحدود على الكافلين والمنافقين انتها كلامه Those three The book The scale And the system and the government Those three They are intact And it's found Then the religion can be established completely The religion will fully establish تمام القيام That's the first point that I wanted to mention In the introduction The second thing that I wanted to mention In the introduction is The truth The truth It is inevitable It's a reality that the truth Will always have enemy They'll always have Adversaries They'll always have Antagonists Allah says in the Quran وكذلك جعلنا لكل نبي عدوة من المجرمين وكفى بربك هاديا ونصيرا Allah says وكذلك جعلنا And like that We have made For every prophet لكل نبي عدوة Every prophet Allah said we have made For them enemies من المجرمين The criminals وكفى بربك هاديا ونصيرا Allah is enough To guide you And Allah is enough To give you victory So the truth and the truth Will always have enemy That's inevitable It's going to happen Whether you like it or not It's the truth شيخ الإسلام محمد بن عبد الوهاب He's Da'wah And the history behind his Da'wah Many things have been said about it People have spoken about it Aggressively Some have defended it And the claims that have been put regarding it Are الخروج That they Went against the Ottoman Empire Which we'll be speaking about Extremeism That they're radical That they don't feel of the Muslims They label the Muslims as disbelievers إستباحة الدماء They permitted for themselves The blood of the people And they spilled blood We'll speak about that And other allegations False allegations And accusations were put Regarding the Da'wah of the Imam محمد بن عبد الوهاب And the response to these allegations And these accusations Were responded to And it was responded by The imams of the Da'wah themselves أئمة الدعوة أنفص ومردو عليها وكشفوا زيفها They themselves They took it upon themselves To respond to it They debunked it They dispelled it They refuted it And they proved that it was a false allegation That it was all Near fictitious fallacies And arguments that weren't based on sound proofs They themselves did it And we'll show that As the series carries on بإذن الله الكني Anyone who goes out of his way now Who looks into the doubts That have been brought regarding The Da'wah of Imam محمد بن عبد الوهاب Will find that it revolves around three The doubts surrounding The Da'wah of the Imam They revolve generally around three points They revolve generally around three points The first one is شبوهات متعليقة بأصول دعوة الإصلاحية Doubts regarding and pertaining to The foundation in which The Da'wah of Imam محمد بن عبد الوهاب Was built on Like توهيت And like adhering The concept of monotheism And also the concept of Following the Messenger So their doubts And their شبوهات is regarding The meaning of And the meaning of What does it mean So they open doubts regarding The foundation and the base In which محمد بن عبد الوهاب Was built upon The second doubts Surrounding Imam محمد بن عبد الوهاب Is شبوهات متعليقة بالتطبيقات العملية للدعوة وتنزيل الأحكام الشرقية على الوقائع العملية The practical applications Of the Imam of the Da'wah محمد بن عبد الوهاب And his grandchildren How they applied And how they exercised The Islamic jurisprudence And how they applied it In their surrounding And in their region Such as For instance The destroying of idols The destroying of graves The punishments Of those who abandoned the prayer And their position Regarding innovators And people who fall into innovation How they applied those Textual evidences From the Quran and the Sunnah In their surrounding And in their In their region So that's the second type of doubts That have been Placed around the Da'wah Imam محمد بن عبد الوهاب The third one is شبوهات متعليقة Doubts بموقف دعوة من الخصوم Doubts Connected to The dealings And how they dealt with those who opposed them Their rivalries Their adversaries How were they towards them And how did they deal with them Whether they were individuals Whether they were جماعات Groups Whether they were villages And towns And governments How did they deal with them How did they deal with the Ottoman Empire How did they deal with the great worshippers How did they deal with the شاعرة How did they deal with the Sufiya At that time The groups that were there How was they dealing With those With those Individuals And also Those groups That's the third شبوهات Doubts Surrounding the Da'wah of Imam محمد بن عبد الوهاب If we go back to the first Doubt that I mentioned Which is شبوهات Doubts Regarding the أصول Of the Da'wah of إصلاحية The foundations Which Imam محمد بن عبد الوهاب The Da'wah was built upon The foundation تحيد Following the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم That one The The aim of the Da'wah Already responded to that There were people Who Through doubts at the Da'wah of Imam محمد بن عبد الوهاب And what he was calling to And what he was preaching And The Imam responded to them himself And his grandchildren Also responded to it And the way that they responded To it was It can be classified Or it can be broken into Or categorized Into two Main categories The first one is أتقصيل أم تقصيل The way that they Did it was They just place Foundations They place principles They put down The Evidence is down Without having to speak about The doubts They just focused on The The foundation And the principles For their Da'wah And A good example of that Is كتابة رحيد That Muhammad بن عبد الوهاب wrote كتابة رحيد Is a book which is تقصيل تقصيل The sheikh tries to Put down foundations And he tries to Also To bring principles And evidences For his Da'wah The second way In which they dealt With this First شبهة شبهة تأتي To the foundation Of their Da'wah Is to refute it They refuted it By bringing the doubt In their book And then responding to it A prime example Will be The كتاب كشف الشبوهات For instance كتاب كشف الشبوهات Muhammad He himself wrote it And so what he did Was he brings their doubts And he responds To it in two ways He responds it إجابة مجملة A general response And then he gives إجابة مفصلة إجابة مفصل A detailed response Also A book That When In that form And in that discourse Is the كتاب مسباح الضلام في ردي على من كدبة على الشيخ الإسلام رتب عبداللطيف إبن عبدالرحمان بن حسن And he refutes Those who have lied about بحمل عبدالله بالنزدعوة Another كتاب is The منهاجر التأسيس The كتاب منهاجر التأسيس والتقديس في كشف الشبوهات داود بن جرجيس عبداللطيف Again, wrote this book عبداللطيف إبن عبداللحمان إبن حسن إبن عبدالله وهي ديبانك وهي ديسبال وهي رسون وهي رفوت The doubts that have been brought The doubts that have been brought رغادي دعوة الإمام محمل عبدالله And the الشبوهات رغادي The first Of the three الشبوهات that I mentioned Which was Doubts Surrounded Surrounding The أصول of الإمام محمل عبدالله So those are the three primary رفتنسي I'm a three primary sources That responded to These These issues Of توهيد And What makes a person وحد And etc And what does it mean Following the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام And etc As for the second Two Doubts that have been brought In order to Respond to it And in order to deal with it A person has to have The person has to have Insight Has to have Knowledge of two Things The first one is The person has to know The history of this دعوة Have to understand the دعوة His دعوة His children's دعوة You have to know The history behind it You have to know The events that took place And what happened You have to know it Especially How the And you also have to know The context The situation The surrounding Before the Imam came After he came And Each event That had happened The cause for it The person has to have Understanding of all of that In other words The person has to have A correct Perception Of The History of the دعوة Of And his grandchildren The second thing is The Imam بالأحكام الشرعية المتعلقة بتلك الحوالي The person has to have A knowledge Of the Islamic rulings And the person has to know The jurisprudent rulings The أحكام of the شريع The Islamic legal maxims Regarding those Particular events That had happened So once the person has The history And has the The perception And what took place And what took place إنه من who is grounded in العقيدة إنه من who is grounded in قواعد الفقية إنه من who knows the relationship between the دليل the evidence and the مدلول the thing that you're using the evidence for إنه من who knows that not being able to understand those two the historical events of the دعوة of محمل عبدو حب and no Islamic background if you lack both of those you don't have the historical knowledge of what happened and you don't have Islamic background Islamic knowledge if you lack both of those then you would tend to disagree with the دعوة of محمل عبدو حب and his grandchildren you will disagree with it you will speak against it of course and if you have knowledge of the شريعة you know the Deen of Allah you know the jurisprudent rulings you know you've mastered that you know you are a scholar in the religion but you don't know the historical context of an Imam محمل عبدو حب and what took place and what happened in the events and the region and the land that he was in you don't know that you'll also be unjust to the Imam and this happened to two great scholars محمود شكرا لألوسى رحمه الله محمود شكرا لألوسى and محمد علي شوكاني those two are great scholars when it comes to Islamic knowledge they are great scholars that goes without saying they are two great noble scholars but they lacked the knowledge of the تاريخ الدعوة the history of the دعوة and Imam محمد عبدو حب they really didn't know it deeply and so what they did was they criticized the دعوة of Imam محمد عبدو حب in some issues even though they defended it and they محمود شكرا لألوسى for instance he worked on the books of Imam محمد عبدو حب for example the كتاب مسائل الجاهلية you know he has تعليقات on it and he was the one who brought it out from Iraq and محمد علي شوكاني from Yemen also the same thing he defended and he was one who pushed the دعوة of Imam محمد عبدو حب but he criticized him also and if you really look at the reason behind the criticism from these two great scholars is not that they lacked Islamic knowledge they had great knowledge in the religion they had الإلمان بالحكام الشرقية they knew the Islamic rulings Islamic jurisprudence they knew that they had that but what they lacked was الإلمان بتاريخ الدعوة they really didn't know in great details the history of the دعوة of an Imam محمد عبدو حب so you tend to find that the person will give an unfair judgment in this issue now I'm going to mention the three types and I'm going to conclude with that for today إن شاء الله تعالى is that when it comes to an Imam محمد عبدو حب دعوة and the da'a of his grand children you will find those who criticized it are three they are three and you won't find a fourth the first one is a person who is a historian he's a مؤرخ المعتني بتاريخ he's given consideration to history he's got very good understanding of history and he has good understanding فهو مولم بتاريخ الدعوة he studied the da'a of Imam محمد عبدو حب deeply he knows all the events when they happen what the year they happen how they happen he has great details of it لا كليس أدور علم الشرعي but he doesn't have Islamic knowledge he doesn't know the religion he's a historian but he doesn't have الإلمان بالحكام الشرعية he lacks that and he doesn't have the ability of course to mention the Islamic rulings on these events that happened at the time of Muhammad عبدو حب because he has no knowledge of the religion so he can't that individual all he can really do is transmit and bring forward the history of the Imam and the history of his grandchildren and what happened and the events like it's not for him and it's not his place to be honest to criticize and pass the judgments and rulings rather Islamic judgments and Islamic rulings regarding what the Imam did and it's not to mention there were people who knew better history than any historian today because they were going to see إن شاء الله التعالى that Muhammad عبدو حب had people who he ascribed or an Imam who he ascribed to write these events when they were taking place so it was ascribed and it was written at the time of the Imam himself and how everything happened so now we're going to talk about the two big books إن شاء الله التعالى إن شاء الله التعالى and the upcoming episodes إن شاء الله التعالى the second group of people are he's a scholar he has إن شاء الله التعالى he has very good knowledge of the religion he's a strong student of knowledge and that's two types I'm going to break the student and the next two types A he has good understanding of the حقام of the شريعة knows the religion of الله التعالى and he also even has correct sound إسلامي أقيدة his belief his creed is sound there's no problem with it and so he agrees with the أصول of the دعاء of the Imam Muhammad عجلات he agrees with him in توحيد he agrees with him in إتباع إن بي صلى الله عليه وسلم he also is grounded in أصول الفق he's grounded in الفقية and etc and he even has تمكن he has the strength and the ability of doing إنزال الأحكام to apply rulings in events and situations he has that and he can do that generally speaking but he doesn't have the knowledge of the history that took place at the time of Muhammad عجلات he doesn't know that he doesn't know the events that happened what took place he doesn't have knowledge of that he lacks that so he's grounded in the religion but he's weak in the وقائع the events that took place and what had happened but he's not ignorant of the أحكام of the religion the rulings of the religion the second type of student of knowledge or scholar is he's a scholar he's a student of knowledge he agrees with أهل السنة إنه عقيدة عقيدة is عقيدة to أهل السنة generally but there is this concepts of deviation that has entered him here or there especially when we talk about concepts of الإيمان he has fallen short in that issue in مسألة الإيمان what nullifies a person's إيمان and etc so مقالات المرجقة the concept of the مرجقة has kind of creeped into that person and he doesn't really know so because of that because he has those concepts of إرجاء with him you generally find he criticizes the دعوة الإيمان محمد من عبداللهب رحمه الله تعالى and he differs and he disagrees with him the third type of people who criticize the دعوة الإيمان محمد من عبداللهب are those who do not have any Islamic knowledge they don't know anything about the دعوة الإيمان they are ignorant they are همد الرعاء they are from the general mass they don't know anything they are blind followers إذا قالت حداني فصدقوها فإن القول ما قالت حداني they are just blind followers they follow their group and they click and they cult whatever they say they are ignorant وليس عنده تصور الواقع and he also doesn't have he also doesn't have any knowledge of the history that took place he doesn't know the دعوة محمد عبداللهب how it started he doesn't know what took place and what happened and how it happened and who it happened to he doesn't know any of that he took from his teachers he took from those who he studied from wehabism wehabism are bad people and he goes around labeling everyone wehabi, wehabi, wehabi who differs with him and these are the most when it asks if he is شديد may Allah not make them the most and not increase them in number and these are I mean عام الناس from the general mass they are from the general mass so it's important that we understand all of this so when we go into the سلسلة when we go into the series that we are going to start next lesson إن شاء الله تعالى that you truly understand those types of people and where the problem is occurring from as I said to you it's going to be 12 parts including this one it's going to be 12 parts in general إن شاء الله تعالى where we will إن شاء الله تعالى bring to light the da'a of this Imam and the da'a of his children and allow the listeners those who are watching to be upon clarity of who this man was ليهلك من هلك عم بينات ويحيا من حيا عم بينا anything I might have said that was wrong or incorrect is from me الشرطان أن الله this messenger is free from it سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك أشهد الله إلهي الم الله ستغفرك وتقولك