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Salafiyyah is not going backward, rather Salafiyyah is a clear practice and upholding the Divinely
Legislated texts, along with the restrictions of the credible Ulama and making them the judge
and criteria, in minor and major issues, in all aspects of a persons life, reflecting Allhs saying:
If you dispute in anything refer back to Allh and the Messenger
{an-^i. (4): 59}
In this verse Shay [anything] is nakira [indefinite] and In is for shart [conditional clause] and
nakira [indefinite] along with shart indicates generality. So if you dispute in anything regardless
of what this thing is, for this is general and includes everything,
If you dispute in anything refer back to Allh and the Messenger

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Translation: AbdulHaq ibn Kofi ibn Kwesi al-
Dated 19
th
April 2011 CE and it can be accessed here:
http://www.mashhoor.net/
and the translation begins from after 3:45 here:
http://www.mashahd.net/video/0d5e03966331a30a8d3
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{an-^i. (4): 59}
Imm ash-Shfi stated referring back to Allh means: referring back to His Book; and
referring back to the Messenger means: referring back to his personality and Sunnah after his
death. This is Salafiyyah, Salafiyyah is bigger than personalities, individuals and groupings,
Salafiyyah is bigger than Markiz [Centres], Salafiyyah is bigger than Jamiyyt [Charitable
organisations] and bigger than Shuykh. Salafiyyah is Allhs Pure Religion which He revealed to
the heart of the Prophet (sallallhu `ata,bi ra..attav). This is the Salafiyyah which we believe in, so
if we were to say, just for arguments sake, that those people [Jihds and Takfrs] are Salafs then
they are to be judged according to the principles of the Salaf dawah and just as they rebelled
against Jordanian law while being Jordanian themselves, with Jordanian passports and national
[citizen] numbers, not only does the law forbid them but also the Salaf dawah also forbids them
because they opposed the principles of the Salaf dawah. These people [i.e. Jihds and
Takfrs] slander the Imms and Ulama of the Salaf dawah and the contemporary ones,
by either deeming them to be misguided or kuffr, so how can they be Salaf?! The
amazement does not cease, but we live in a time wherein understandings have been
overturned and there is a battlefield over terminologies and hence people have been
deceived by terms and names. The people today, except for those whom Allh has mercy
on, have almost lost understanding of the realities. So for example you will hear
oxymorons which cannot ever be combined, like it being said that this piece of paper is
white-black even though the two cannot be together at the same time.
Therefore, when it is said Salafiyyah-Takfeeriyyah then these two description cannot ever
come together like this! This is because Salafiyyah is not based on following desires or takfeer, if
there is not explicit evidence in which we have a clear proof from Allh then it is not permitted
for us to make takfeer of anyone. The foundation is for a Muslim to remain upon his original
state of Islm unless it is apparently seen that he opposes Islm, otherwise he remains upon
Islm. Our Lord taught us from His Universal Way with creation, based on His Will, during the
era of the Prophet (sallallbv `ata,bi ra..attav) with an incident which occurred and our Prophet
(sallallhu `ata,bi ra..attav) taught us an important principle in takfeer. When Usmah ibn Zayd,
the beloved son of the Prophets beloved, may Allh be pleased with him, was on the battlefield
an enemy fighter was overpowered by Usmah and Usmah placed his sword on the mans neck
to kill him. The man uttered the testimony of faith: I testify that there is no god worthy of
worship except Allh and that Muhammad is Allhs Messenger yet Usmah was not perturbed
by the man saying this and killed the man anyway. When the news reached the Prophet (sallallbv
`ata,bi ra..attav) he was very angered by this, Usmah said to the Prophet: he only said it when
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he saw the sword. The Prophet (sallallbv `ata,bi ra..attav) replied: Dia ,ov oev v bi. beart.
Usmah said I wanted that I would have embraced Islm after that moment.
Hence, the people of knowledge say that if a person says something or does an action which
could hold a hundred possibilities and ninety-nine of them carry possibilities of kufr, then we
have to take into consideration his Islm. The Salafs are the most fearful of people when it
comes to takfeer, so it is an old accusation [that the Salafs make takfeer] and when our Shaykh
[Imm al-Albn] first arrived in Jordan some of the jurists of the country met him and said to
him: You make takfeer of the people! The Shaykh replied: I seek refuge in Allh! The
Shaykh then asked one of them, who would later become the Muft of Jordan and we view that
he was upon good and justice and Allh will take him to account, if you heard a man praying
the Sunnah for dhuhr and saying I will pray them for the Prophet, what do you say about this?
The scholar replied: he is a disbeliever. The Shaykh said: As for me I do not make takfeer of
him, such a person is ignorant so I would teach him. What is strange is that those people, who
are called Salafs yet are actually Takfrs, and the two terms cannot come together, they brand
our Shaykh al-Albn as a Murji and when we ask why they say: because he did not make
takfeer of kuffr and he does not make takfeer of anyone. How can such people be Salaf?!
Salafs have academic reference points but if you were to ask those [Takfrs labelled as Salaf-
Jihds] what are your reference points and who do you take knowledge from? then you will
find that some of them make takfeer of our Imms.
Then, the term Salaf-Jihd, Jihd is a topic within fiqh and it has rulings which are found
within the books and was mentioned by Allhs Messenger (sallallbv `ata,bi ra..attav), and us as
Salafs believe in the texts and their applications. We also believe in the jihad which the Prophet
(sallallhu `ata,bi ra..attav) informed us of, and we say jihd in the path of Allh is not permitted
according to the Divine Legislation except with three conditions and these conditions are not
from us or taken from our own opinions, rather they are from the words of our Messenger
(sallallbv `ata,bi ra..attav). Ab Hurayrah ;raai .ttbv `avbv) narrated, in a hadeeth found in the
Two Saheehs, that the Prophet (sallallhu `ata,bi ra..attav) said: 1be vv i. a .bieta ava fovgbt
bebiva. So based on the words of the Prophet, fighting without an Imm [leader] is not Divinely
Legislated. The second condition is: a Divinely Legislated banner, for the Prophet (sallallbv
`ata,bi ra..attav) stated !boerer figbt. ava aie. vvaer a bavver of btivave.. btiva bigotr, aie. a aeatb of
re-.tavic igvoravce. The third condition is: being prepared. These are three conditions of jihd in
Allhs Path. As for any and every fool taking hold of a rifle or sword saying I want to make
jihd in Allhs Path then this is not jihd as there has to be preparation, a cadre, a leader, a
legitimate banner under which to fight, in order to raise the word of Allh then this is the jihd
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which we believe in. Not any person who takes hold of a weapon and says I want to make
jihd do we say that this is a Divinely Legitimate jihd and in Allhs Path. Jihd is a fiqh ruling
which has its rules and regulations which we and our Shaykhs call to and which have been
emphasised on our pens and tongues and mentioned in many instances.
In conclusion, Salafiyyah is a methodological, creedal and educational approach of preaching
which believes in obeying those in authority and prohibits revolting against them. It also believes
in jihad as being the pinnacle of Islm and as being Allhs Ruling so it cannot be implemented
in a way which is one of jest and that brings about harm to the security of the country, this is a
violation of the Divine Legislation, the deen and the blessed dawah. There are many
conspiracies against this blessed dawah, the most dangerous being by those who are not
from the dawah adopting its attire. There has thus been an intense effort from our
scholars to challenge this by exposing such people and their corrupt methodology.
These conspiracies renew themselves so it is obligatory upon the children of this dawah
to distinguish themselves from them and strive to clarify Allhs deen. The Salaf dawah
is not a dawah of politics it is a dawah of safety, knowledge, a methodology of
understanding Allhs deen, education, knowledge and action this is the Salaf dawah,
it is not Hizbiyyah. Whoever has the correct belief in Islm is Salaf meaning: he holds in
esteem the Book of Allh, the Sunnah of Allhs Messenger, the Companions, the
Successors and their Successors - whoever affirms this is Salaf. We do not have a dawah
which is based upon Hizbiyyah and regionalism, however we do not want those to come
into our ranks those who are not from it, holding their own ideas which are opposed to
us and destroy our dawah due to this deception. These people do not understand the
religion as we do and they do not return back to the scholars whom we return back to,
and they do not regard the principles which we hold which are based on our Lords Book
and our Prophets Sunnah,
We thank all those who distinguish between the [Salaf] dawah and other than it and
we reject terms such as Salafi-Jihd and Salaf-Takfr. Salafiyyah is one, it is a
methodological approach based on understanding. As for the media which does not
distinguish then we seriously urge them to distinguish between matters and announce
that we are free from such actions and our issue with those [Takfrs] is old and serious.
We neither see them in our gatherings nor hear about them except that they deem us as
being misguided along with our Shaykhs and our brothers from the Shaykhs. They are
not from us and we are not from them either in their actions or in their understanding.
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Salafiyyah is not based on Hizbiyyah or personal interests, our affair is only that we teach the
people Allh says, Allhs Messenger says and the Companions say. we believe in unity
being of the reasons for strength in the Ummah and the reasons of strength are due to the
scholars and the rulers as Sufyn ath-Thawr stated: Two types of people if they are rectified
then all of the people will be rectified and if they are corrupted then all the people will be
corrupted: the rulers and the scholars. The reasons for strength in the Ummah therefore
have to be brought together and not separated, this is what we view. The Ulama supplicate for
the Umar and ask Allh to grant them success as Fudayl ibn Iyyd stated: If I had one
supplication that would be answered I would make it for the leader. Because with his
rectification is rectification of the people, and with his corruption is the corruption of the
people. Also, the Khutab, students of knowledge, preachers and admonishers are soldiers of
the Ulama the relationship between them has to be based on complimenting each others role
and not based on personal interests, such is the same for the relationship between the Ulama
and the Umar. The Ulama advise, instruct and forbid with hikmah, kind words and good
preaching as the Salaf practiced.