The Fruits Of Knowledge

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Signs of Deviation – To approve what you use to disapprove and to disapprove what you use to approved

Shaykh Abu Bilal Al-Hadrami (may Allah preserve him) was asking the students in class:

So what is the sign of deviation?

Hudaifah (رضي الله عنه‌‎) said, (the sign of deviation is): “To approve what you use to disapprove and to disapprove what you use to approve”.

This a very clear sign, so if you want to know the deviation of a person apply this principle on him, what he used to say earlier and what he is saying now? Immediately you will know. If you see these people of banateel (who permit wearing the pants) who say fulaan has permitted this, you know that he has deviated. You (addressing some maftoon who permit wearing pants) did not used to permit this and you used to refute the Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen by saying to them: “Why you refute us by saying so and so permitted this? Why are you not saying Allah said such and His Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said such?” Now, you search for the excuses. This is the methodology of Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen. And Allah will destroy them like how He destroyed the Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen. And we are free from these kind of people who are eating away salafiyyah. Wearing pants used to be haraam and now, when they entered it, it became halal! Just say that, “We want the Saudi Riyaals” and don’t cheat these young people. That is what tempted them, so they say fulaan permitted this and you are not worried about the fatwa. The mufti (for these people) is the saudi riyaals, that is a reliable mufti. We ask Allah to save us from these kind of people and their trials.

Oh Salafiyyun .. stick to the truth even if it is against you, Oh Salafiyyuun, be content with the path that we are upon (seeking knowledge and staying away from prohibitions), Insha Allah we live on that and we die on that.

By Allah, if this (salafiyyah) is not the truth then there is no truth on the earth. This is The Religion of Allah. Is the truth with the Soofiyyah ? Or with the Rafidah ? Or with the Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen ? or with the hizbiyyin ? It could be that some groups have some truth with them, but the foundation of the truth is with people of truth and they are the source of the truth. And they know from where to take the truth. As for the people of innovations, they might accidentally follow the truth and they follow some part of the truth because it is suitable for their desires. As for the people of truth, they stick to truth what is for them and what is against them, not because it suited their wishes and desires, but they stick to the truth out of submission to Allah. What an evil thing that they did! Making a salafi as hizbi or making a salafi as mamsookh (deformed one).

(A student has written a benefit to shaykh, he read out). ‘Whoever takes the rare issues (mistakes) of the ulama have left the religion’. So who ever searchs for various excuses mentioned by various scholars then he becomes a zindeeq (who left the religion). Al Imam Dhahabi has said, “whoever searchs for excuses of various madhaahib and mistakes of the scholars of Ijtihaad, his deen will become weak’.

Oh brother, take the truth whether it is for you or against you. Leave this playing with the deen. This shows the desire (of these people).

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Translated from audio with slight variation: AbdunNoor Al Hindi

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