The Qutubee Described

By Shaykh Saleem al-Hilaalee translated by Maaz Qureshi [1]  

Some doubtful calls have entered into the arena of Salafiyyah, such as the Qutubiyyah and some of the Jihaadee groups.  Indeed they put on the outer clothing of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah so that they may say to the youth who have just begun to drink from the well of the Book and the Sunnah with the understanding of the Salafus-Saalih: ‘We are from you and with you.  Do you not see that we wear your dress, and ascribe ourselves to Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah?’  And they swear that they are from them, and that they are sincere.

However, the true scholars reply: ‘Look at the actions of their hands, and do not be distracted by the tears in their eyes…’  So their crocodile tears do not deceive the eyes that see with the luminary light. So if they were truthful, then why would they launch attacks of disparagement, curses, and defamatory insinuations upon the scholars of the minhaajus-salafee and its callers who are known by it, and it is known by them in this era?

They have a tendency to attack the scholars’ knowledge and understanding, claiming that these are scholars of menstruation and childbirth, and that they do not know anything about the reality of the people, and that they do not direct their attention to anything from the field of politics, nor to the plots of the people of wiswaas (satanic whispers).

They attack them in their area of concentration by saying that they are monks with books not leaving their hermitage to go out into the street so that they may see the condition of the Ummah and help in removing the affliction and oppression, rather, (they say that) one of them is imprisoned in his library!

And they continue to attack their manhaj (methodology) by saying that they are sheltered in what they write about the past which is far and distant from the harsh reality of today.  They further their insult to them by referring to them with corruption, so they say: ‘They work to receive revenue from the ruler,’ or ‘The slaves of the slaves of the slaves…’  And lastly, they attack their ’aqeedah by stating that they are the Murji‘ah of the era, to the extent that one of them will describe the Salafee scholars of this era as: Khawaarij upon the callers (du’aat), and Murji‘ah with the rulers!

There have appeared in the arena of Salafiyyah some new terms that are propagated by those who wish to cause a rift in the rank of the Salafees.  So you will see them saying about themselves and their followers, ‘We are the revivalist Salafees (Salafiyyah Tajdeediyyah),’ and about the scholars and the students of knowledge, ‘These are the traditionalist Salafees.’’’

Footnotes:

[1] al-Jamaa’aatul-Islaamiyyah (p. 409-410) of Shaykh Saleem al-Hilaalee