Introduction

 Memories are still renewed, and faith and trust in God is renewed with them, that He, Glory be to Him, is the keeper of this great religion. The Almighty said: {Indeed, it is We who sent down the Qur’an and indeed, We will be its guardian.} [Al-Hijr: 9]

In spite of the suffering of the Islamic nation from the fullness of real enemies and the misleading of the misguided pretenders, from all the heretical sects, and their assistance from the ignorant people deceived by the sad ones, and everyone who took their approach from the hypocrites, the fools and the mockers, the womb of this Ummah will continue to give birth to those who will renew its religion after a prolonged standstill warning seductions, and fuelling the flame of chivalry and magnanimity in its crouching after a delusion of confinement, so they buckle down to sharpen the concerns of all members of the Ummah through rational and wise methods stemming from the depths, which facilitate the task of disclosing the truth of the innate religion and spreading it to all horizons.

As we have been promised to you, gentlemen and ladies, readers of the website, we are honoured to publish this article that depicts in each of its lines what should be adorned and known by the Muslim, the believer, the good, the strong, the discerning, who works hard, wisely and sincerely in order to spread knowledge and knowledge without ddistortion or alteration, and to implement it away from appearances of exaggeration and obstruction, so that mercy descends, blessings prevail, justice and fairness prevail, and the manifestations of injustice and prejudice will disappear, so that all of humanity will be happy, because of the innate religion that was heralded by the rest of the messengers and prophets. Allah the Almighty says: Therefore, stand firm in your devotion to the upright faith - the nature made by Allah, the one on which mankind is created - and the laws of Nature ordained by Allah cannot be changed. That is the standard of true faith, but most among mankind do not know.

This, despite its small size, this article is considered as an encyclopaedia in its meanings, opening new horizons for the reader to contemplation, providing him the opportunity to renew the faith, developing in himself the faculty of research and scrutiny, and motivating him to benefit from morals of the history, and then renew the intention and determination to work sincerely and sincerely to support this religion.

As we publish it for its importance, we also don’t miss that we sincerely thank our brothers in God, who have endured hardship and overcame difficulties from their countries to visit His Eminence, Sheikh of Islam, and the happiness of the people, Mawlana Sharif Ibrahim Saleh Al Husseini, may God protect him in Cairo, a visit in God, for God, and by God.., they were the reason behind the benefit the entire Islamic community got, with the pearls and jewels contained in this valuable word. Allah the Almighty says: It is not proper that the believers should go forth all together. Therefore, why not a squadron from each division stay behind so that they may obtain the understanding of Deen (Al-Islam), and admonish the people when they return to them so that they may refrain from un-Islamic conduct! May Allah reward them on our behalf and on Islam.

Those who visited were: -

1- Sheikh Sultan bin Mahmoud Al Maskari, the Sultanate of Oman

2- Mr. Ahmed Qureshi, the Sultanate of Oman.

3- Mr. Abdullah Al-Siyabi, the Sultanate of Oman

4- Mr. Ahmed Yaqoub, Sultanate of Oman

5- Dr. Mukhtar Ali, United Arab Emirates

6- Dr. Amin Yousef, United Arab Emirates

7- Al-Sharif Al-Rasheed Ahmad Abdul-Rahman Al-Khorasani, United Arab Emirates

8- Mr. Rahmatullah, an Indian (from Kerala), resides in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

We ask God, the Blessed and Exalted be He, to prolong the life of His Eminence, Sheikh of Islam, and the happiness of the people, Maulana Sheikh Sharif Ibrahim Saleh Al-Husseini, and to keep him as an asset for this Ummah, and to preserve him, his family and companions with what Holy Quran has been preserved, and to bless him with complete health and complete wellness, and to make him victorious, and to fulfil  all hopes for him, and on top of them is his great hope that this Ummah will turn into a strong, united and victorious community, with the meanings of mercy, love, and harmony prevailing among all its members in all their classes and all sects, and that the rest of the Muslim countries will have security, stability and peace, What on God loved one. And for Allah it is not hard or difficult.

In the name of Allah the Merciful

Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and blessings and peace be upon our Master Muhammad, the most honourable of the Prophets and Messengers, the Seal of the Prophets, the Master of the Ancients and the Others, and upon his family and pure, good companions.

The difficult mission of the Swahaba in early Islam

The honourable companions of Prophet, may God be pleased with them all, were able to help and preserve Islam, even though they were in the midst of conflicts and disputes. The different views during the era of the Companions, especially during the period after the demise of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, was greater and more dangerous than what we are in today, why? Because we found these Companions completed the construction, charted the road for us, and laid down its features for us, and our task here is only to walk on it, and preserve its features until we reach the goal.

As for them, they found the land ready for construction, and everything was raw. They are those who have been tested by God, and their sincerity, intention and faithfulness to build, and if you wish to rebuild, and demarcate the features of these buildings on the basis of what they heard, reasoned and memorized, from the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, which is complementary to what the messengers and prophets brought before him, especially what came By our master Abraham, peace be upon him. Their task is more difficult, because the task of construction is always difficult, and it is more difficult to maintain the building honestly, and because revoking construction is sometimes more difficult, pushing others to choose other than the choice of the Companions and their choice, and choose different paths, claiming that they realize the best, and are more aware of the appropriate, even though this is an unfair claim. Truthful, and incorrect, then innovation begins, as if innovation is something that Islam recognizes and favors. In fact, heresies began with the emergence of Fatalism first, the Marjeh and Mu’tazila, and many other things since the time of the Companions.

The beginning of the division of the Muslim Ummah

Then, as a result, the Ummah was divided into several sections. It is true that the Messenger, may blessings and peace be upon him, in the famous story in the battle of our master Khalid, may God be pleased with him, the Messenger, peace be upon him, sent our master Ali, may God grace his face, to collect the spoils and bring the one fifth to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. And one of the companions had hated our master Ali. And it happened that our master Ali, chose something from the khums and took it for himself after taking the right of Ahl al-Bayt. And this companion hated our master Ali strongly. When he came to the Messenger, may blessings and peace be upon him, he said to him, O So-and-so: Do you hate Ali? He said: Yes, O Messenger of God. See honesty !!! He said to him: Yes, Messenger of God, I hate him. The Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, said to him: “Do not hate him, For he have more in that one fifth than he took, and Ali is your master after me, or who ever I was his master, Ali is his master”, or words similar to this.

And this Hadith of Buraidah came in several origins and it is desirable to pass it on due to the importance:

On the authority of Buraidah: Ibn Al-Haseeb - he said: “I hated Ali in a way I never hated anyone else. He said: I loved a man from the Quraysh that I did not love him except for hating Ali, may God be pleased with him.

   He said: So that man sent in an army, and I accompanied him, I didn’t accompany him, except for hating Ali, may God be pleased with him.

   He said: we got some captives, so he wrote to the Messenger of God, peace and blessings of God be upon him: “Send us someone who will distribute them for us.”

  He said: Then it was divided, so he went out with his head dripping, so we said: O Abu Al-Hassan, what is this? He said: Did you not see the maid who was in the captivity, I divided into five, and she became in the fifth, then she became in the family of the Prophet peace be upon him, then she became in the family of Ali, so, I made love with her. He said: So the man wrote to the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and I said: Send me an authenticator. I began to read the letter, and then he grabbed my hand and the letter, and said: “Do you hate Ali?” I said: Yes, he said: “Do not hate him, and if you love him, then increase your love. I swear, share of Ali’s family in the one-fifth is better than a female slave-girl”.

He said:  after those words of the Prophet peace be upon him, Ali (R) was dearer to those who were against.

    Abdullah (Ibn Buraidah) said: I swear, in this Hadith, there was no one else between me and Prophet; Peace be upon him, except Abu Buraida.

It was narrated by Ahmad and his disciples, the men of al-Sahih, other than Abd al-Jalil ibn Attiyah. He is trustworthy, and he has stated that he have heard it from Prophet; Peace be upon him.

On the authority of Buraidah, he said: The Prophet (Peace be upon him), sent two missions to Yemen, one of them in the leadership of Ali bin Abi Talib, may God be pleased with him, and on the other: Khaled bin Al-Walid, and he said: “If you meet together, then Ali would be the leader, and if you separate, each of you will be on his army.”

     He said: We found Banu Zaid from the people of Yemen, and we fought, then the Muslims won against the polytheists, so we killed the fighter and insulted the offspring, then Ali chose a woman who was captive for himself.

Buraidah said: Khalid bin Al Walid wrote with me to the Prophet, peace be upon him, informing him of that. When I came to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, I gave him the book, and then read it, and I saw the anger in the face of the Prophet, Peace be upon him. And I said: This is the place of the one who seeks refuge. You sent me with a man and ordered me to obey him, so I did what I was sent for, then the Prophet, peace be upon him, said: “Don’t curse Ali, for he is from me and I am from him, and he is yours after me.”

I said: Tirmidhi narrated it briefly.

It was narrated by Ahmad and Al-Bazzar in a nutshell and in it: Al-Ajlah Al-Kindi, Ibn Ma'in and others trusted him and weakened him in a group, and the rest of Ahmad’s pupils are the men of al-Sahih.

On the authority of Buraidah, he said:

The Prophet, peace be upon him, sent Ali to Yemen, and Khaled bin Al-Walid was sent on the mountain and said: “If you both meet together, then Ali should be the captain.” So they met and got from the spoils what they didn’t get yet, and Ali took a slave girl from the Khumus (one-fifth), so Khalid bin Al-Walid called Buraidah and asked him to inform the Prophet, may peace be upon him, what Ali had done, and when they came Medina and entered the mosque, and the Prophet, peace be upon him, was in his house and some of his companions were at his door, so they said: What is the news, O Buraidah? I said: Well, God conferred victory for the Muslims, and they said: What brought you here? I said: A maid, Ali took her from the khumus, and I came to inform the Prophet, peace be upon him, and they said: Then tell the Prophet, peace be upon him, then Ali will fall from the eyes of the Prophet, peace be upon him, and the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, was hearing these words, so he got angry, and said: Why do people disparage Ali? Whoever diminish Ali has diminished me, and whoever disagrees with him has separated me, for Ali is from me and I from him, he was created from my clay, and I was created from the clay of Abraham, and I am better than Abraham and his descendants, and God hears all and he is All-Knowing, O Buraida. Don’t you know that there is more for Ali than the maid has taken, and that he is your guardian after me? ”So I said: O Messenger of God, can you pledge allegiance to me on Islam again. He said: I did not leave him until I pledged allegiance to Islam.

Al-Tabarani narrated it in Al-Awsat, and in it there is a group I did not know, and Hussein al-Ashqar is classed as weak by the majority, and Ibn Hibban notarized it.

And on the authority of Abdullah bin Buraidah, on the authority of Ali, who said: “The Prophet, peace be upon him, sent Ali bin Abi Talib and Khalid bin Al-Walid, each of them alone, and gathered them together, and said: “If you meet each other, then Ali should be your captain. ” He said: So they took the right and left, then Ali went in and made victory, and took a maid from captivity.

Buraidah said: I was one of those who hated Ali most. He said: a man came to Khaled bin Al-Walid, and he said that Ali took a slave girl from the khumus, and he said: What? Then another came, then came another, then the same news sequenced, so Khaled called me and said: Oh Buraidah you know what Ali did, so you must go with my letter to Prophet, peace be upon him, and I set out with his letter, so I went and entered upon the Prophet, peace be upon him, and he took the letter with its left, and as God Almighty said, he can neither read nor write. I used to lower my head when I spoke to him until he fulfil my need, then I lowered my head, and I spoke, and I cursed Ali, then I raised my head, and I saw the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, became very angry, I did not see such anger on his face, except on the day of Quraizah and Nadeer. He looked at me and said: “Oh Buraidah, love Ali, indeed he does what he is ordered to do.” So I got up, and no one was dearer to me than Ali”.

Narrated by al-Tabarani in al-Awsat, and in it, there are weak ones, but trusted by Ibn Hibban.

And on the authority of Amr bin Dhi Murr and Saeed bin Wahb, and on the authority of Zaid bin Yathai, they said, “We heard Ali says: “I want anyone who heard what the Prophet, peace be upon him, said on the day of Ghadeer Khum, so thirteen men stood up, and they witnessed that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: am I the more beloved for believers than themselves? They said: Yes, O Messenger of God, he said: He said holding Ali's hand: “Whoever I am his master, then Ali is his master, God does protect those who protect him and reject who reject him, and love those who love him, and hate those who hate him and help those who help him and let those down who fail him.”

It was narrated by Al-Bazar and his men are of Sahih, other than Al-Fitr Bin Khalifa, and he is trustworthy.

On the authority of Rayah bin Al-Harith, he said: “a group of people came to Ali in Rahba. They said: Peace be upon you, o our master. He asked: How can I be your master while you are an Arabs? They said: We heard the Prophet, peace be upon him, on the day of Ghadeer Khum saying: “Whoever I am his master, Ali is his master.”

Rayah said: When they went, I followed them. I asked: Who are these? They said it's a group of Ansaris, including Abu Ayyub al-Ansari.

It was narrated by Ahmad and Al-Tabarani except what he said: They said: We heard the Prophet, peace be upon him, says: “Whoever I am his master, then Ali is his master, O God, do protect those who protect him and reject who reject him.”

   And this is Abu Ayyub among us, so Abu Ayyub shrank the turban from his face, then said: I heard the the Prophet, peace be upon him, says: “Whoever I am his master, then Ali is his master, O God, do protect those who protect him and reject who reject him”. Ahmad’s men are trustworthy.

On the authority of Abu Al-Tafil, he said: “Ali gathered the people in Al Rahba and then said to them: “I want anyone who heard what the Prophet, peace be upon him, said on the day of Ghadeer Khum”, so thirteen men stood up and came to Ali.

Abu Na`im said: Many people stood up and testified: while Prophet gripped Ali’s hand and said: don’t you know, I am more beloved for believers than themselves? They said: Yes, O Messenger of God, he said: "Whoever you are his master, this is his master, O God, do protect those who protect him and reject who reject him".

He said: I went out as if I had something in my mind, and I met Zaid bin Arqam, and I told him: I heard Ali saying such and such, and he said: What do you deny? I have heard the Prophet saying that.

Some of those who heard this understood that Ali is the heir of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and the people can direct this to the physical inheritance because he is his cousin, and the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, had no son, this is the matter if the prophets had physical inheritance, like the others. Then, for example, Ali is concerned with his physical inheritance, I mean, not only Ali, but Al-Abbas as well, and those who have the same position from the Prophet’s household.

 Others understand from these words that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, always cares not for the physical heritage, but rather for the intangible heritage, which is related to the entitlement of the one on his behalf to deliver what he brought. It is the succession after prophet hood, not prophet hood, but a succession after prophet hood.

And we all know that there is no prophet after the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, so it does not occur to us that Ali will be a prophet after our master, the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. We know that the prophets do not inherit, but all that they left of the physical inheritance will be for charity, as our master Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, may God be pleased with him, told, but rather there would be successor like Abu Bakr, Omar, and Othman. And they thought that Ali would be the caliph without disagreement, according to the Hadiths, including the Hadith of Al-Baraa bin Azeb on the authority of the Prophet, peace be upon him, he said: “Whoever I am is his master, Ali is his master.” Narrated by Ahmad and Ibn Majah, and it was narrated by Ahmad on the authority of Buraidah, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasa’i, and al-Dhaya in the selected Hadiths on the authority of Zaid bin Arqam.  And this Hadith is entitled by Huffaz as hasan.

And in a narration by Ahmad, Al-Nasa’i, and Al-Hakim in Al-Mustadrak, on the authority of Buraidah, whoever I am the guardian, then Ali is his guardian.

 And there is another Hadith: Ibn Ishaq said: “When the Prophet, peace be upon him, wanted to leave, he succeeded Ali bin Abi Talib on his family. Then the hypocrites shuddered at him, and said: Prophet left Ali behind is nothing but because of overburden and to loosen it, so Ali took his armor, then left until he came to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, while he was descending on the plow, and he said: O Prophet of God, the hypocrites claimed that you succeeded me because you put me down and relieved from me, so he said: “They lied, but I left you for what I left behind me. So go back, and succeed me in my family and your family, wouldn’t you like to be for me like Aaron to Moses? Except that there is no prophet hood after me, "so Ali returned to Medina." And this Hadith is available in the main Hadith books, such as Bukhari in the chapter of battles, Muslim in the chapter of virtues of the Companions, and Ibn Hisham in the chapter of good conduct.

Eligibility of Master Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, to take over the caliphate

But you may know that the long period of experience and practice in old age sometimes takes the place of knowledge, and takes the place of knowledge and experience, and that is why our master Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq was the first to lead people at that stage. Why? Because he weighed the whole Ummah, and he was the constant companion of the Prophet peace be upon him, and he was present in the Jahiliyyah also, and he has took note of the deception and intrigue of the ignorant people and their ways of thinking, and he has sensed Islam in his upbringing, he sensed the growth of Islam and he was one who knew the good and the evil of the world, and he knew the evil and goodness of people, so it is more important to distinguish between their good and their bad, between their right and their falsehood, between the right and wrong of their judgment, and between their moderation and deviation.

Umar Al-Faruq and those with him saw conferring the caliphate to our master Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, while Al-Siddiq set out and appointed our master Omar and Abu Ubaidah, and as long as the people chose one of them, but our master Omar, with his experience and wisdom, chose Abu Bakr, because our master Abu Bakr is a personality on which all the choice of immigrants and supporters unite. And that he is the first person upon whom opinions unite, and that is why he said his famous saying: “To cut my neck without sin is better for me than to lead a people including Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq.”

All these things combined and contributed to the failure of our master Ali, may God be pleased with him, to succeed in the caliphate, and this resulted in congestion in some people, Imran bin Husayn, Ibn Masoud, Zaid bin Arqam, Ammar bin Yasir, Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, Abu Dhar al-Ghafari, and others, they noted that this is a conspiracy; that is, to refrain from choosing Ali. We have still with us complaint about the conspiracy, and the story is still with us, even now we have not yet overcome it.

The outbreak of events after Abu Bakr

  A little before our master Abu Bakr’s demise, he saw that the Ummah needed a strong man, he appointed our master Umar, and when God wanted martyrdom for Omar, and he passed away, the caliphate made a consultation between six companions of the Prophet, peace be upon him, with whom the Prophet, peace be upon him, was satisfied.

Then Usman was chosen. Some people curse Banu Umayya, and some people accept them, and we all know what happened at that time. The people were divided even before the death of Osman. People came to view the Caliphate as if it did not represent the public opinion of the Islamic Ummah, nor did it represent consensus. Rather, it became a caliphate in favor of a group in exchange for the whole of society, which is a group of illiterate people. Especially after our master Uthman tolerated them in entering the ruling and other matters, all these are accumulations that had more impacts and it continued until the revolutionaries came from the Egyptians and it happened to our master Othman what happened, the Caliph, may God be pleased with him. The tensions crystallized at that time. And among the Companions there were those who had no claim or interest in what was happening, and there were those who went out from inside the city to its countryside, and there were those who participated in the events positively, and there are many different views on the events of that period.

Outbreak of tensions during the reign of Ali

However, after the martyrdom of Uthman, may God be pleased with him, the Companions agreed on the succession of our master Ali, and the split began. Those who covet the ruling and aspire to take it over have only accepted to make a new division in society; to demand Ali for the punishment for those who killed Uthman. Those who killed Uthman, killed him in a crowd; crazy demonstration, deaf and dumb, no one couldn’t accuse anyone even if I select one of them and say he is one of them, you need witnesses to prove that, and all of these witnesses must be included in their testimonies. Their testimony cannot be relied upon in this great issue of the Ummah, and at that time, if the opportunity was given to our Master, Ali, may God grace him, he would be able to follow up the matter calmly and wisely, until things would be revealed, he would know the truth and would judge them, by implementing punishment on the killers of the Caliph Othman bin Affan, may God be pleased with him.

But they want something else. They do not want a trial. Rather, they wanted the results that happen after the trial. If Imam Ali, may God bless him and grant him peace, responded and dared to rise up and wanted to punish these people, then his fate would be that of Uthman, and the atmosphere will be free for rioters, and this is exactly what the fanatics of the Umayyads wanted. Aisha, who was in a normal situation when the news of the killing of our Master Osman reached her, she did not suffer and was not affected much. And when she asked and knew that the one who was appointed after him was our master Ali, she said: O Usman…, she pained and wailed, and led the opposition to demand revenge to blood of our master Uthman.

All this happened. We appreciate the stance of the Mother of the Believers, Aisha, may God be pleased with her, towards Ali. And his stance towards her in the case of the deception regarding her was not simple matter, and it is same for every person who found himself in such a slander that happened to Aisha, God bless her.

The succession of our master Al-Hassan and the emergence of the doctrine of the Sunnism, and Shiism

Nevertheless, praise be to God, after Imam Ali, the matter ended and our master Al-Hassan came, and the story was blurred. Here when we talk about the caliphs, the caliphs are four, and we count five with Omar bin Abdul Aziz. The succession of Imam Hassan, no one mentioned it and no one cared about it as if it had not happened. There historians mention Ibn al-Zubayr more than Hasan !! This is intentional!! But history did not neglect him.

The Ummah, came to be named as Ahlussunna Waljama’a and when the name of Ahlussunna Waljama’a appeared for Ummah, another truth was revealed that was buried, it was that the rule went back only to the Umayyads. People who were not satisfied with the Umayyads got a chance to declare another doctrine, the Shiism, and the extreme Shiism.

This Shiism arose during the era of our Master Ali, and it arose even before the era of our Master Ali, in the time of our master Abu Bakr and Umar. And after our master Al-Hassan handed over the caliphate to Muawiyah, the name or term of the Ahlussunna Waljama’a appeared, and the term Shiia appeared on the other hand. Then he continued the doctrine of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamaa'ah - and all the four famous Imams and the others whose doctrines have been eliminated, such as the Dhahriya, Abu Thawr and others, all of them are loyal to this doctrine, the doctrine of the Ahlussunn Waljama’a, so they represent the basic legitimacy of the doctrine of the Ummah.

The period of Western countries invading Islamic countries, plundering their wealth, and tearing apart their unity.

And still in this long journey and during the fluctuations of government and disagreements, other sub-schools of belief arise in the branches, until the eleventh century AH, when the  Britain, France, Portugal, and other countries began to seize the countries and plunder the goods, in the name of colonization. As if Islam since it came, did not civilize people, their rights and their duties, and did not put them on the straight path, Britain came to teach the people! France came to civilize the people! But the reality of this civilization was that people were diverted from their religion in real terms, of their own accord, and the goods of those countries are plundered to their countries to pass it on!!!

One of the results was the regression of some people from Islam, even though it was superficial, and the fall of the caliphate, and the fragmentation of Islamic entities until they became unable to protect themselves and to get relieved by others, and this dream; the dream of re-colonization, even in different forms or styles, still baffles the souls of powerful states to this day!! Thinking about how to plunder oil? How to plunder other goods available in these developing Islamic countries, how can they increase their division and divergence? This is for sure.

Many diseases appeared, and more heresies, so the scholars began to differ in the way of treating them. Every sufferer, if he did not find a place for him in society, tries to find a place for himself in society by coming out with a doctrine!!! We have come to be entitled as disbelievers only because of the dissension! Our identity disbelieved without questioning, and the heresies spread. When you read the history books, you will find in some old books, especially of our Hanbali brothers, may God have mercy on them and guide them, the roots of these misfortunes including Thakfir of Imam Abu Hanifa, Thakfir of Imam al-Shafi, and the Thakfir of everyone who had different opinion. Some of them reached in extremity at that time even to have dissension in whether it is permissible to marry a Shafi’i woman or not! What is her fault? Her fault is that she is from Shafi sect. Scandals appeared. If you even read the books of Abdullah bin Al-Imam Ahmed, or Ibn Mandah, or others, you will find written in it that the Jews are better than him! Some of them narrate:

 “There appears in the Ummah a person named Muhammad ibn Idris who is worse than the devil.”

And Muhammad ibn Idris is Imam Shafi, may God be pleased with him and pleased with him, scholar of Quraysh.

The emergence of religious disorders

These disorders multiplied and varied; the dark sectarianism, the strife of extremism, the bedlam, the strife of espionage and employment, and of hatred towards righteous and saints, hatred and unjustified prejudice against people of faith, in order to gain control and for oppression of others, for the bloodshed and the loss of Muslim lives unjustly. So a lot resulted from it, and we still suffer today.

Most of these disorders grew along with the emergence of sects in Islam, and this is one of the its harms on the Ummah by its policy of instilling hatred that would stir the religion in the hearts of its followers against Muslims who do not fall within the framework of their followers and imitators. And seldom is an alleged organization devoid of hatred, hatred against Muslims who disagree with them, and most of them are not averse to accede other Islamic groups as the Kharijites did with the Imam Ali, God may be pleased with him, and their successors see them doing Thakfir of the imams of Ahlussunna Waljama’a from Ash'ari and the Maturidi group, who were undoubtedly the majority of the Ummah, as they disbelieve the Sufi sects also without evidence, only because of the evils that the enemies of Islam have instilled in their souls contrary to the justice and tolerance of Islam.

And when Sheikh Muhammad bin Abd al-Wahhab appeared, the Ummah was in a situation similar to what we are experiencing today. It is in dire need of renewal. His call for monotheism in some parts of the Arabian Peninsula was a commendable call accepted by every fair people, but the claim of his followers that the whole Ummah has deviated from true monotheism, an invalid claim, and if we accept an argument regarding the claim of the deviation of this Ummah, which they referred to, if they stood within the limits of heresy and the new innovations, without jumping into Thakfir, that would have been a simple matter that could be remedied and did not affect the building of the Ummah’s unity, but crossing the reasonable limits and his follower’s Thakfir, is a matter that cannot be accepted.

Likewise, what followed that of calling everyone who disagreed with them as infidels, they said it explicitly, and if this was not the opinion of all of them, then most of them see that everyone who disagrees with them in opinion is an infidel and outside the sect, regardless of his position in the Ummah and his rank in knowledge and righteousness, and Ibn Wahab at the first stage of his advocating, he did not advocate other than monotheism. Unfortunately, this argument is poison in honey, according to the majority of the scholars in those days when the Ummah had scholars to whom it listened and obeyed their orders.

And because the things they considered as infidelity and deviation from the religion are nothing but pure Islam, faith and its requirements, which are done in the form of loving saints and righteous people, seeking their blessings, loving the Prophet, seeking his blessings and visiting his tomb, so that, in many situations, you can see, the Muslim is embarrassed to say to people: I visited the Prophet, peace be upon him. Rather, he must say that I visited the Madinah mosque or visited the mosque of the Prophet, peace be upon him, timidly and as you can see, that these are all legal sub-matters. Rather, the Holy Prophet peace be upon him, ordered to do them.

We see that the people had been trying to be blessed with Prophet, may blessings and peace be upon him, to be blessed with his spit, be blessed with his phlegm, be blessed with his hair, be blessed with his vestiges, and many things, all of you know it and it is obvious. However, no one said that these are polytheists. Rather, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, is the one who gave Khaled bin Al-Walid his hair, and he is who distributed his hair among Abu Musa and other companions, we all know this, as the story in Hadith and biographies of Prophet, they said:

When the Prophet, peace be upon him, finished the slaughtering, he called the barber and shaved his head. Muammar was the barber. And the Muslims came asking for his hair - while he standing with the razor blade on his head, and Prophet looked at his face and said: Oh Muammar, the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, made it possible for you to be close to the lobe of his ear with the razor in your hand. Muammar said, so I said: As for me, O Messenger of God, that is God’s blessing upon me.

He said to the barber: Take and he pointed to his right side. When he finished, he distributed his hair for the one closer to him, then he pointed to the barber, so he shaved his left side. Then he said: There is Abu Talhah. Then he gave him the hair.

Ibn Saad said: the Prophet, peace be upon him, shaved his head, took from his mustache, his backside, cut his fingernails, and ordered to bury his hair and nails.

Bukhari narrated, on the authority of Ibn Sirin, on the authority of Anas, may God Almighty be pleased with him - that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, when he shaved his head, Abu Talha was the first to take his hair. He said: This does not contradict the narration of Muslim: It is possible for Abu Talha to get from the right side like what others got, and to get the other part in particular, but Muslim also narrated from Anas’s Hadith that the Prophet, peace be upon him, completing throwing stones at Jamra and slaughter, and the barber shaved his right side, then he called Abu Talha al-Ansari and he gave him the hair. Then he pointed to the left side, and he said: Shave, so he shaved it. Then he gave it to Abu Talha and said: distribute it among the people.

In this narration - as you can see - the share of Abu Talha was the right side, and in the first it was the left, and in another narration: the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, gave it to Ummu Salim and it doesn’t contradict his giving to Abu Talha because she is his wife. And in another narration: he started with the right side, and it was distributed among the people, one or two for each, then he asked to shave the left also, and then he did the same, then he said: There is Abu Talhah. Then he gave him the hair, and in another narration: He gave Abu Talha the hair of his left head, then he cut his nails and distributed them among the people.

Khalid bin Al-Walid demanded his forelock when Prophet shaved, so he gave it to him, he used to put it in the forefront of his cap, so he didn’t participate any battle except he made victory.

This hair that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, distributed among his companions and they competed to obtain it in order to be blessed with it. By doing this can you say that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, advocated polytheism and called people to infidelity? But the fancy leads to more than this and the extremity of people has reached a "dangerous stage, as most of them claim that those who disagree with them are unbelievers!!" Others expanded and said: No. Even whoever accepts him or approves of him after disbelieving him is also an unbeliever, because consent to disbelief is disbelief. Our brothers, the owners of Islamic politicization, came and they also came with Thakfir of the ruler, for whom they voted or accepted him and also elected him. And this strife spread. And Professor Sayyid Qutb, may God have mercy on him, came and wrote books in this field in which he took such things.

If you mix all these up in one place, and add to it the views of Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab, it becomes clear to you what our Ummah has fallen into, and this resulted in a newborn that was given an old name: “Salafism”. This newborn has worked hard and extracted new rulings that do not leave a Muslim in Islam at all, except those who are among them! There were other roles that completely disappeared from existence, have no effect, such as the roles of the sheikhs of Islam, the jurists to whom the ruler used to refer in the past. Their existence has become like nothingness, and they say that to be absent in Sharia is same to be absent physically.

The Christians contributed to this, when they ruled the countries by colonization, and these new people who came recently supported them because they could not accept the jurists. Because the opinions of the jurists differ from theirs because the jurists differ from them in taste, methodology, and even behaviour, since every word that the jurists say is restricted either by a Hadith or a Quranic verse, or any concept of the Hadith or Qur’an. And these new ones do not accept this. So those who have no knowledge started doing Ijthihads. And these ijthihads resulted in many things.

Enemies of Islam plan to strike Islam in its home

When America wanted to emerge from the Islamic world and to be a force capable of changing the confines of its people to strike after a period, the most vital and greatest Islamic countries in history, it favoured the deceived Muslims in America to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, and the people from these countries fled from these countries, to Afghanistan and most of them were civilians, the unemployed and students,.

 America in particular used the same Arab Islamic countries, and compelled them to transfer their children to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets, as if the infidelity of the Soviet Russians, most of whom are Orthodox, differs from the infidelity of the neo-secular conservatives in America or in other countries of the world, although truth is that there is no difference between them.

And after these young men went there and trained in the arts of war, knew the use of weapons, and possessed techniques that ordinary people in the Arab and Islamic world were not familiar with, and the issue of the Russians ended, and they began to erode themselves each other until the issue worsened more that they killed each other and even Sheikh Abdullah Azzam and his two sons were among the victims. There were disagreements due to veils and the fortification between moderates and extremists. If one of them sees another Mujahid wearing a Hijab, or he finds one with verses that he carries, the other would say to him: You are an idolater! Or an infidel! And there were disagreements between the Salafis and other insightful Wahhabis, and discord emerged between them. Until the League sent a group of scholars to solve this problem, and they succeeded in solving, praise be to God, as some scholars who have a direct relationship with the subject, told me.

Then our Taliban brothers also undertook another work, which is a new legislation, which is right in most of it that goes with the Hanafi school of thought, except that it included other things that contradict accuracy and wisdom, so they tightened some sub-tasks. As for the major duties that a Muslim should do in the present era, they have been neglected, so we left the establishment of the state of Islam firmly on a solid and wise basis with perfection. We were concerned with the veil and women, and preventing them from education, and that they should stay at home, and that they had to be engaged with weaving, washing, cooking, household affairs, etc. ... and that they have no right to learn, and they have no right to speak!! And they have no right to participate in building, in striving for freedom from the usurper, in restoration of the right, or to participate in managing, leading, or assuming appropriate positions in the state and society.

And when they were involved in Thakfir of who oppose them and in removing him from the sect, they thought about the justifications, and they found nothing but things in which Islam has not observed any harm to the religion or belief for long periods, and they understood that they do not pose a threat to the Muslim in his belief. These things have existed since the dawn of Islam and Muslims did not pay attention to them, neither to destroy or preserve it after the Muslims have established themselves in monotheism and faith. This is like the Buddha statues in Afghanistan, and the statues of the pharaohs in Egypt. All these were not taken care of by the early adopters. Rather, they considered them as signs and indications of the power of God, and so God destroyed them for their tyranny, as God said in the matter of Pharaoh of Moses: (Today, we will preserve your body, so that you become a sign for those after you. But most people are heedless of our signs.) [Yunus: 92]

And these brothers didn’t get that [Buddha, Asir, Kabul, Bing Sheik, Sanand Nadad] and Pharaoh, Haman, Qarun, the rebellious, all of them and others, if Islam had reached them, they could only believe in it and enter it because it is the will of God. But these people wanted to find something to support them in their belief that Muslims are disbelievers, and that Muslims have apostatized, and therefore these idols of Buddha, the Pharaohs, the Sphinx, and others must be removed, and this also deepened in the minds of the West, the intense hatred towards Islam and the fear and dread of keeping the Islamists in America and Europe In the future.

And after those who went to the jihad in Afghanistan returned, and the barrier of fear of the existing regimes in the Arab countries was broken and their oppression of the opponents, which was intentional and planned by the countries that ignited the story of the war in Afghanistan, America fascinated them and their rulers, as if America told them that they have learned arts of war, and if you left them in this condition after they came back, they would not leave you, and they must take revenge for the harm that befell them, so do know how to deal with them, or how to get rid of them! They saw that prisons were more suit; So they put everyone they got, in darkness of prisons, and everyone who came were thrown into cells, and they fled, and some were displaced, and prepared themselves for an endless jihad against the infidelity in the countries of America and Europe and against the infidelity that Muslims have fallen into according to their opinion.

The nation became divided and torn apart. It was best for America to send its soldiers and troops to fight the Soviet Russians, or send their youth from reservists and others to fight communism and to roll it back from penetrating in Afghanistan. Because if Islam fights for the sake of religion, it will fight all unbelief, and there would be no difference between a communist infidel, and who is not a communist, bearing in mind that many world countries and some Muslim countries have followed the socialist system in their economic policies in contrast to the capitalist system adopted by the West and America and those who advocate it. We know that neither this nor that is Islam's approach to money and economics. Because Islam, in its care of rights, has not interfered in the right of property by negation, nor with unfair restriction, and it only interfered with the preservation of the right of every person, beneficial, and to protect the man from human oppression and greed, and to refine his desires and whims so as not to violate or exceed their permissible limit within the framework of the rule of "no harm in Islam" and intervened only to prevent the oppression of the strong on the weak, and to open the horizons of cooperation among all people without oppression and splendour in all dealings.

And all the foundations and systems that Islam came with are moving in the same direction, and look, Allah says: (And cooperate with one another in virtuous conduct and conscience, and do not cooperate with one another in sin and hostility. And fear God. God is severe in punishment.) [Al Ma’ida:2]

Islam has honoured the Muslim with monotheism and devoted worship according to capacity and ability, God Almighty said: God does not burden any soul beyond its capacity. To its credit is what it earns, and against it is what it commits. [Al Baqara: 286]

In dealings, the love of goodness was prescribed, and to love it for all people, to defend himself and others from harms, benefit and exhaustion, and the all good morals and to do them with the spirit of a sound heart, and to respect people in giving and taking, and to purify the heart so that a person will be purified, avoiding all faults, in order to be cleared of all sins in satisfaction of Allah the Creator, the provider, the beloved, and the tolerance and kindness in everything and giving everyone his right.

Let us return to a place where America and its offspring, used the youth of Muslims, to fight the Soviet Russians, and if only it was for the sake of God, as it was believed at the beginning.

It was also possible for America to send its armies and ask our Islamic countries to send them regular forces in this mission so that none of these things would happen, which today clearly appears to threaten the Muslim Ummah in its security and peace in its all countries. The America’s goal behind this dangerous arrangement is clear, the least of which is to spread chaos and insecurity, and planning to change the existing Islamic regimes and replace them with others that lack experience and political acumen. America’s distress among these regimes is intense, and the hearts are different, and it is happened what happened and the rest will come.

And when these Islamists did not find a refuge after their return from Afghanistan except in the countries of Europe and America that follow a democratic system, even if it was detailed and accurately detailed for their peoples, so many of them migrated to there, where many organizational currents of the followers of political Islam settled there before them and then America and some countries in Europe saw, that the presence of these people on their lands poses a great danger, and France also feared Islamic encroachment, and it has been said that Sarkozy said: After twenty-five years, that is to say, after 2025 AD, a Muslim president may come to France. Or he said something similar to this. Britain is afraid of the same thing... Germany do same, Italy do same. All these countries fear Islam, fear Muslims and fear more births in the Islamic world, so how about newborns of Muslim immigrants! Likewise, these countries fear our countries possessing these enormous natural resources. Petroleum and other minerals, as well as these countries fear the Islamic tide and its rapid spread everywhere.

And America with its many faces knows this and other than that, and it is the teacher of the world that knows all the issues that destroy, destruct and exterminate, and so it destroys the cultivation and offspring and adopts the spread of all disorders on the earth.

And for that, the report of empowering and settling these people in their countries by re-exporting them to their original countries, was created, as Britain did with Israel, in Palestine, enabling and resettling Islamists with their different affiliations, and with their different dispute, in their original countries, because not all of them were equal in bad, there is the faithful, and there is the unfaithful... as long as they are on the move let us push them home, So America brought our brothers who were displaced by the oppression of tyrants to Tunisia, and brought our brothers here to Egypt, Libya, but unfortunately, America was unable to achieve what it wanted, for reasons that only God knows. They were not able to establish a state dominated by Islamists of the type that they prefers, and the idea was to establish a large Islamic caliphate, and America knows that this is almost impossible in the current situation ... How does this caliphate be established? How does it arise? And God is capable of everything, and God knows best.

But this is the idea. The ambition is very great; it does not seem to rule a state, or a territory. It started with countries that were not fanatical to Islam and were Muslim, Islamic countries but not fanatical to Islam. They started with them, and when all will be gone, the turn of other Islamic countries will come. They set the stage for that by implanting strives and leaving it asleep until the appropriate time to raise its head and destroy everything, and do not leave anything. God may protect us and all Muslims from that.

In southern Saudi Arabia there is a problem, in Bahrain there is a problem, and in Yemen, there are problems, and in Syria there are more terrible problems and in Iraq there are problems that may explode soon and some problems will be unfolded in other places.

They threaten Iran, but they do not want to destroy it because eliminating Iran is the elimination of their interests, not for fear of Arab or Islamic countries in the region. They say in order to protect the Arab countries, even if they manoeuvre here and there, it is not true. Their concern is to destroy the Arab countries and plant the tree of strife in these Arab countries, with whose survival Islam will survive, and if the Arabs fall, Islam would fall, as Maulana Sheikh Ibrahim Nias said: Islam is strengthened by non-Arabs, but it survives, I mean, its existence is because of the Arabs. If the Arabs are removed, Islam will be removed, and that is why the story becomes difficult. Therefore, take a lesson, O you who have insight.

The role of Sufi masters and their stance on these events

We have said that the role of influential jurists has almost ended or disappeared, and the Sufi masters also in the true sense had almost finished or disappeared, but this does not mean that there were no any of the jurists who carry the jurisprudence of the apparent, and the Sufis who carry the Jurisprudence of the subconscious, but there were the jurists in the general sense and Sufis in the general sense and you can say with regard to Sufis that they are more than any sect in the world. But because they do not participate in the most important areas of life like others, they seem to be minority.

Sufis, if we look at them with their true meaning according to the scholars, we would have found them as the most numerous sects of Muslims. Most of the modernists from the four schools are Sufis, and they are concerned with the inner part of religion of the secrets of faith, the complex factures of certainty, sincerity and piety, and so are the jurists, commentators and all scholars, even Imam Ibn Taymiyyah and his students such as Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn Rajab and others, and most of their sheikhs like Ibn Qudama, and others are all Sufis. And the jurists of the four Sunni schools of thought also, and their books bear witness to what we say. Even the Islamic organizations, most of them had devoted a wide area in all areas of their lives for Sufism, even the first guide and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood is not hostile to Sufis or Sufism as his advocating was known as: [a Salafi call, a Sunni method, a Sufi truth, a political body, and a scientific and cultural association, and an economic company, and a social idea].

The reversal of some of his followers from his approach does not harm this. I met one of them in Medina, Mr. Saeed Hawi, and his thoughts were sound in track, thanks for him for giving me the correct image of the brotherhood, may God have mercy on him. All of these data are in their true authentic sense, and the Sheikh Al-Murshid’s affiliation with Sufism is obvious, and it clearly indicates the absence of any kind of hostility between him and the Sufi masters. And it has reviewed what was going on between him and our modern Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hafiz Tidjani, in Ismailia, when Sheikh Al-Hafiz was there for a Da’wa mission, and the story of Sheikh Hasaanul Banna’s letters.

In confirmation of what we say: it is said in the book of the Muslim Brotherhood, the years before the revolution: Just as it was not known about the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928,  it was registered as a charitable association similar to other charitable associations with a Sufi orientation known at the time, when he had ended up resolving the issue of his prosecution path towards consecrating his movement's tendencies, but Al-Banna's interest in Sufism, however, went beyond the closed Tariqa and ritualistic view, as Sufism in his view, was qualified to interact in the areas of the Ummah and to contribute to reform issues when it left its isolation and remained as a spiritual component of education and behaviour.

The spirit of Sufism was present in the organizational structure of the group, and it occupied an important part of the framing and education decisions in the movement. Indeed, it can be asserted that Al-Banna was founded, on the spirit of Sufism, the largest Islamic movement organization at all, so he built a movement that brought Sufism and Military together.

The Sufi formation in Al-Banna’s youth, as he had belonged to the Shadhiliyya Hashafi Order, and he had maintained Wazeefa Zurooqiyah, that reached an important level that made him specify an important space, in the educational and cultural decisions of the Brotherhood for the Sufi component that was evident in the wazeefas and aurad (the major wazeefas and the minor wazeefas) that he enacted in his group. He also included in the cultural curricula of the group, early in its founding, the Sufi books such as “Explanation of the wisdom of Ibn Ata Allah of Alexandria”, “Risalah al-Murshidoon” by al-Harith Muhasibi, “The Divine talents” of al-Qustalani, “al-Anwar Muhammadiyah” by al-Nabhani, and “al-Risalah Al-Qushariya, “Ihya Ullum al-Din” by Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, and “Summary of the Minhaj al-Qasidin” by Ibn Qudama al-Maqdah, with a focus on which he has to special connection with, from the major organizations, and moving away from which he has connection through the tariqa, in practical and educational terms. The activities with a mystical dimension were not absent in the Banna movement, so he was keen to celebrate the Prophet’s birthday collectively with an organizational dimension. He also resorted to spiritual promotion with Sufi practices and methods. The book “The illusion” of Al-Harith Al-Muhasibi was one of the basic educational texts that are collectively enrolled in the devotional nights in an eloquent scene of coexistence and influence.

Organizationally, Al-Banna gave the organizational components of his group a moral load close to the spirit of Sufism, so the standards of advancement in the group were subject to spiritual devotional considerations in which personal piety would have the greatest share, such as fasting, the ability to be patient, and flogging, and the attendance to prayer, remembrance and night prayer. The members in families (usra) and battalions (katheeba) are linked with human relations that primarily approach the level of brotherhood with blood, and end with the association with the title of the guide that refers to the spiritual authority that is not tainted by any desire to compete for the position of leadership, and these were all components that Al-Banna derived from his experience in Sufism.

Although the conditions of occupation and the predominance of the dynamic nature over the group, and then the necessities of political presence in the Egyptian arena at a later time have precipitated the decline of the Sufi dimensions in the Brotherhood, there is a deeper transformation that took place in the Brotherhood’s system after that, it was transferred from the mystical framework that gives priority to the spiritual side, to the Salafi framework Who the interest overcomes in ideological purity and what it entails, the disputes and clashes with Sufi practices that they do not find then in accordance with the Qur’an and Sunnah.

In spite of all the retreat of the role of true Sufi masters, if they are taken alone, they are considered more than all the other sects; you might say that the such-and-such sect has reached sixty million! We are the Tijani order... and the Qadriya in Nigeria are more than sixty million!!! Well, sixty million, but where is the role?? !! The role is missing or weak and does not affect it, or that all efforts are spent on sterile side conflicts, and the enemies are watching to plot intrigues in order to harm them and Sufism in general.

 And the argument of some is that a Sufi should not think about the world, nor should he think about the people, and he should not even think about protecting his religion and himself! And he should leave the people as they are and where they are ... He should leave them alone and if any of them dies, the only thing he can do is to come and pray for him! But you, O Sufi worshiper!, yes, your position is not to participate in the affairs of this worldly life, nor in the construction of the earth, nor in defending your religion. God Blessed and Almighty says: O you who believe! Be patient, and advocate patience, and be united, and revere God, so that you may thrive. [Alu Imran: 200]

And Allah says: And strive for God, with the striving due to Him. He has chosen you, and has not burdened you in religion—the faith of your father Abraham. It is he who named you Muslims before, and in this so that the Messenger may be a witness over you, and you may be witnesses over the people. So pray regularly, and give regular charity, and cleave to God. He is your Protector. What an excellent Protector, and what an excellent Helper. [Hajj: 78]

And Allah says: O you who believe! If you support God, He will support you, and will strengthen your foothold. [Muhammed:7]

And Allah says: Permission is given to those who are fought against, and God is Able to give them victory; those who were unjustly evicted from their homes, merely for saying, “Our Lord is God.” It hadn’t that God repels people by means of others; if, monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques—where the name of God is mentioned much —would have been demolished. God supports whoever supports Him. God is Strong and Mighty. Those who, when We empower them in the land, observe the prayer, and give regular charity, and command what is right, and forbid what is wrong. To God belongs the outcome of events. [Hajj: 39-41]

And he says: O you who believe! Obey God and His Messenger, and do not turn away from him when you hear. And be not like those who say, “We hear,” when they do not hear. [Anfal: 20,21]

And he says: O you who believe! Respond to God and to the Messenger when He calls you to what will revive you. And know that God stands between a man and his heart, and that to Him you will be gathered. And beware of discord which does not afflict the wrongdoers among you exclusively; and know that God is severe in retribution. [Anfal: 24, 25]

And he says: And prepare against them all the power you can muster, and all the cavalry you can mobilize, to terrify thereby God’s enemies and your enemies, and others besides them whom you do not know, but God knows them. Whatever you spend in God’s way will be repaid to you in full, and you will not be wronged. But if they incline towards peace, then incline towards it, and put your trust in God. He is the Hearer, the Knower. [Anfal: 60, 61]

And he says:  If you desire a verdict, the verdict has come to you. And if you desist, it would be best for you. And if you return, we will return; and your troops, however numerous, will not benefit you. God is with the believers. O you who believe! Obey God and His Messenger, and do not turn away from him when you hear. [Hashr: 19, 20]

By these verses and the Hadiths that call the Muslim to jihad, the will for jihad and to the pledge of allegiance, God and His Prophet addressed all the believers until God inherits the earth and those on it, and Sufis and other sects of Muslims are not excluded from them. This discouraging and destructive idea has been entrenched in the minds, and a long time has passed, as it is an idea itself is an evil that must be changed, but we mostly did not consider it to be one of the reprehensible defects and shortcomings until the problems with Muslims today reached the degree that we see!!!

Hardly any Islamic country can be found unified!! ..... You find all the countries dispersed, and it is known that God the Blessed and Exalted has warned us about that and said: And obey God and His Messenger, and do not dispute, lest you falter and lose your courage. And be steadfast. God is with the steadfast. [Anfal: 46]

And we were commanded wherever we are to be such Ummah that calls for good, enjoins good and forbids evil, and establishes faith in the souls and hearts of people. And Allah says:  And let there be among you a community calling to virtue, and advocating righteousness, and deterring from evil. These are the successful. And do not be like those who separated and disputed after the clear proofs came to them; for them is a great punishment. [Alu Imran: 104,105]

And Allah says again: You are the best community that ever emerged for humanity: you advocate what is moral, and forbid what is immoral, and believe in God. Had the People of the Scripture believed, it would have been better for them. Among them are the believers, but most of them are sinners. [Alu Imran: 110]

Well, God has commanded us to be pious, the right piety, and to die as Muslim, and He has commanded us to hold its rope together, and forbade us to separate, he said: O you who believe! Revere God with due reverence, and do not die except as Muslims. And hold fast to the rope of God, altogether, and do not become divided. And remember God’s blessings upon you; how you were enemies, and He reconciled your hearts, and by His grace you became brethren. And you were on the brink of a pit of fire, and He saved you from it. God thus clarifies His revelations for you, so that you may be guided. [Alu Imran: 102, 103]

And He said: O you who believe! When you meet a force, stand firm, and remember God much, so that you may prevail. And obey God and His Messenger, and do not dispute, lest you falter and lose your courage. And be steadfast. God is with the steadfast. [Anfal: 45, 46]

And He said: O you who believe! When you meet those who disbelieve on the march, never turn your backs on them. Anyone who turns his back on them on that Day, except while manoeuvring for battle, or to join another group, has incurred wrath from God, and his abode is Hell—what a miserable destination! [Anfal: 15, 16]

The conflict has occurred, so what are we waiting for? Blow of wind!! And the wind is the state and power. Your strength goes away, and your country goes away to other hands. This is what is happening today in all our countries.

Therefore, we must all pay attention and work steadfastly in our places to support Islam, support Muslims, and strive to unify Muslims. There is no difference in this between Sufi and others. It is not permissible for a believer to despise himself and say: No, I can't do anything in the midst of a choppy ocean! No, no.

O believer, you can influence, even by a good word, by the opportunity to preach or instruct in the right place at the right time in a suitable people, and by this the success will come from God for the correct understanding and choosing the right thing, God willing, and faith will be renewed in the souls of the believers, and Islam will be renewed in The souls of Muslims, so that they can realize the reality of those who want good for them, and those who do not want them, nor their good.

The increasing dangerous situation of the Muslim Ummah after the Arab Spring revolutions

The truth is we are in danger! The Muslim Ummah is in danger. Look at all the countries that have changed because of the so-called Arab Spring; Libya, and Egypt, and if there was another country in which the bloody dispute is taking place, why? If the purpose is to build this country, and to change the ruling power to better, then why is this fighting? Why this rivalry? And why is Muslim blood always shed and spilled for no reason?!

All of this makes you realize that there is a goal that they are planning, and this is a purpose cannot be avoided, or a person who is a party to these conflicts can’t avoid. If you are a party to these disputes, you cannot do anything. But if you are not a party to it, and you are truly a Muslim ... and you represent the side of our Master, the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, in his advocating and directing, God willing, you will do a lot and God will support you with a supportive victory.

We ask God, Blessed and Exalted be He, to grant us success and you, and I welcome you, and God willing, with understanding, will solve all the problems of the Islamic Ummah, and the means of understanding have become numerous today, and none of you should think that if you say a word, all people will agree upon, no. Today, if you read the Qur’an ... they do not agree on its meaning, nor are they unanimously agreed on its understanding, nor on its interpretation. Everyone has an opinion, so you advise without being locked in. Leave your heart open, your mind open, as well as your thought, take what you have, and consider what is not for you until you reach the result you want and seek. It is one of the graces of God, the Almighty that he put the hearts in his hand and not in the hand of a human being whoever was, and the one who whispers in them is Satan, and you can expel this Satan by remembrance of God. Allah says: Those who believe, and whose hearts find comfort in the remembrance of God. Surely, it is in the remembrance of God that hearts find comfort. [Al Ra’d: 28]

May Allah help us and you.

The relationship between the Tijaniya order, the Qadiriyya, and all other orders and the conditions of Tijaniyans in India

And after his Eminence's question about the conditions of the Tijani people and the Zawiya in both the Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman, Dr. Mukhtar stated that the Eminence Sheikh Rahmatullah came to them from Kerala, India, in the Emirates, and he came to visit Mawlana Sheikh Musa Abdullah, in Abu Dhabi, and asked to tell you that he suffers from many problems, because there are big problems for them in India, and it is unfortunate that this is among those who belong to Sufism. The reason for this tension is that some of them believe that the followers of each Sufi order, whatever it is, must plead with Sheikh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani, may God be pleased with him. He complains about this problem and asks whether you can write a prayer for him.

His Eminence answered, saying: We ask God to grant him success, and they must realize that the Tijaniyya and other orders of saints are not against Sheikh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani, and the Tajani people accept our Mawlana Sheikh al-Qutub al-Fard, on whose guardianship and the majesty of his destiny, all his positions, ranks and the facts of his mandate, which God has assigned to him, the consensus has happened. And that our Sheikh Al-Tijani, may God be pleased with him, advises his followers to venerate and respect all saints, in addition to our Sheikh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani, may God be pleased with him and pleased with him.

And when Sheikh of Islam Mawlana Sheikh Ibrahim Niyas al-Kulkhi, may God be pleased with him, visited Iraq on an official visit, I think that it was during the era of Abd al-Salam Aref, he went to visit ... our master Maulana Sheikh Abdul Qadir al-Jilani, and some people objected to him. I was once present with him in Mina, and some of our brothers present asked him a question, which is: What is your opinion on visiting non-Tijani saints if one of Tijanians goes to their country? He said: (You go and tell them the greetings of Sheikh Tidjani, greet them and pray for them as the Sunnah has commanded to do it in visiting.) This is evident in the context of the visit of all Muslims to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace.

So when a Muslim stands in front of Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, he says politely and in the presence of a perfect heart, lowering the voice and closing the eyes (Peace be upon you, O Messenger of God, peace be upon you O Prophet of God, peace be upon you, O the best of God’s creation, peace be upon you O beloved of God, peace be upon you O Seal of the Prophets, peace be upon you, O mercy of the worlds, peace be upon you, Lord of the first and the others, peace be upon you O Prophet and the mercy and blessings of God, I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and I bear witness that you are the servant of God and His Messenger, and I bear witness that you have conveyed the message to all, and have performed the trust, and advised the Ummah, And you fought in Allah for the right of jihad, and worshiped your Lord patiently until the demise, peace and blessings of God be upon you, and on your family and companions, the best and most complete blessings.

Then he asks for intercession, asks his Lord for forgiveness, and asks him for his particular, general, worldly and eschatological needs, for himself, for his family, and for those to him, and he asks him for a good end. No one said that visiting graves is obligatory, and that you go if you don't visit them. I saw during our visit to the beloved, may peace and blessings be upon him, that we greet him, renew our faith in him, and inform him of the greetings of his Ummah upon him, and we pray and greet him, his family and companions, and so on.

 Then we pray for what God inspires us to do in that great terrible place, so the legitimate visit is not prohibited. But every aspirant must act on the condition of his sheikh if this does not result in interruption or strife. And you can visit and convey the greeting of your sheikh to the guardian you visit. For example, if you are invited to the house of your neighbor for a feast and he says that the visitors must eat, and all people must eat in his house, or all people must come to his house, so here it is mandatory only for non-excused, because the Sharia doesn't oblige people to eat, but just to answer. But no one said it is obligatory to visit the saints and to perform Thawassul, rather it is a matter that is either Sunnah, or permissible, and nothing in that is obligatory except for those who have a legitimate right over the visitor, as physical parenting, spiritual parenting and the like. God bless you

Hence, all of the saints, according to Sheikh Tidjani, are the object of veneration and respect. And if the one you address was a rational person whose mind was not seized by strain or the like, then tell him you invited me to eat with you, and I have eaten from my father’s house and I was satisfied, so I cannot eat the food that you offered me, then there is no hate, but he was satisfied with the above, so he had to realize that he had no right to be angry. Or if he obliges you to eat his food and you have answered his invitation, and considering not eating as not answering the invitation is considered as an unbalanced attitude, taste, and is not sound according to Sharia.

But even so, we greet the saints, and we tell them that our Sheikh Ahmed Tidjani, may God be pleased with him, greets them. Our Lord increases for them his bounty, forgives them, raises their ranks, and their status with him, and increases for them His bounty and grace. This is what we say; we pray for them.

And when we go to our master Abu Bakr, Omar, Uthman, or Ali, may God have graciously blessed him, in Madinah or Kufa, we do as we did in the visit of the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, we greet them, and we pray for them and we perform Thawassul, why? Because our order is based on the premise that the students of this order are students of our master, the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, directly. Because its verses (Aurad) were taken from our master, the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, directly they are students of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, directly, spiritually they are all students of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, but they are not companions and they do not have the merits of the Companions, may God be pleased with them all.

As for whomever God’s providence helped to be present with Prophet may God bless him and grant him peace, and to be one of his companions, this has transgressed; Because whatever you do for God and perform, it is never like theirs. is not it?! Yeah. If you had spent gold like Mount Uhud, it would not have same to a Mudd or half of theirs! See the difference!! They spend a Mudd of wheat, and you give a Mudd of gold, you give a mountain of gold, while your reward is less than their reward. And our Sheikh Al-Tijani, may God be pleased with him, is satisfied with this, and says: Our deeds, compared to the Companions of Tidjani are like ants, the corn and the sand grouse!! And for the merit of the Companions, we perform Thawassul by them, and get blessed by them.

Conclusion

The necessity of thinking seriously about the status of the Muslim Ummah

You have to think about the current situation in the Islamic world and pay attention to it because the enemies of God wanted in the Islamic world a great disorder and evil. Look at what is happening in Nigeria, of the devastation and destruction!!!

They looked at the situation of Muslims in Nigeria and the power of Islam in its people, so they chose "Brno", which is the state we are from, and we settle in, to be the scene of these events. It is the oldest state in Islam, and it was a large, sprawling Islamic empire. But they thought about implementing this scheme for a long time and did several attempts for strange matters, as they visited the region repeatedly and met some personalities, and their intent was not clear to us at that time, until we understood their intention at the end.

Arms come to Nigeria in big containers and why are all these? All these have no meaning other than fighting Islam. The occurrence of these events and the lack of security and stability in a country rich in various natural resources, makes it compelled to fall into the arms of the countries of oppression, injustice and tyranny, and now our Lord has revealed their plan by the spread of these teams in the country.

It is true that since the beginning of this strife they have not attacked us as Sunni Sufis following the footsteps of the righteous predecessors, or as brothers who work in the field of general guidance and did not attack us, as advocates of God. Rather, sometimes they come and explain to us that they are not our enemies, and assert several times that they have no hatred, no discord, nor a problem with us, and we should not accept what people say about their enemies, but the matter has now gone out of the hands of these moderates, so there have become numerous groups, so well preparation has to be done.

The bandits of the Imams of armed robbery have an organization called Boko Haram, and the politicians who failed in the elections and want to liquidate each other, they have an organization called Boko Haram, and the Christians also have an organization called Boko Haram, then after that comes Boko Haram who are the real holders of this name. So there are many problems.

The meaning of the phrase "Boko Haram"

Dr. Mukhtar: Haram, we understood its meaning, but what does the word Boko mean?

His Eminence, Mawlana: Boko is an abbreviation of the word "Bokoy", which means education from the first to the seventh year of primary and elementary school. Then Boko means, not only higher education, but even primary education defined by seven years is also forbidden. This is its meaning. Boko from Bokoy and it means seven in the Hausa language. The clear meaning is the prohibition of Western education in all its stages, although this is illogical because education is now all Islamized, except for higher levels, as it has a specific course in each country.

This movement is a movement calling for monotheism and jihad, with its diversity, it seems from a faction or branch of Algeria, such as Ansar al-Din in Mali, and Ansar al-Sharia Wal Islam in Libya, all of which are derived from the organization, Al Qaida in the Arab Maghreb, Somalia, Yemen, and other regions, which are all one fabric on the surface although it differs in essence, and God judges the truth, his judgment is not punished and he is the most impossible. God protect us and you from the ill practices; both visible and hidden.

Praise be to God, may God bless.