The Shaikh Asked About Ansaarus-Sunnah

Questioner: Tell me your opinion regarding the Ansaarus-Sunnah al-Muhammadaiyyah Jamaa’ah [in Egypt] and then after that I will ask you the rest of the question [that I have].

Al-Albaani: Take their knowledge and/but leave their actions.

Questioner: Huh?

Al-Albaani: Take their knowledge and leave their actions, take their knowledge and leave the actions of individuals from them, have you understood me? This is enough for you, this is enough for you … as-salaamu alaikum.

Al-Hudaa wan-Noor, 268.

The Shaikh Praises Allaah for Saving Him From Fanaticism for a Madhhab

“The truth is lost due to fanatical ‘madhhabism’, and Allaah the Most High is the One who is Praised for saving us from it, and granting us love of the Sunnah and [the love of] aiding it, and being partial to it alone. So all praise is for Allaah for what He has given and I ask Him for more of His Bounty in the Hereafter and this life.”

Ad-Da’eefah, 12/1/150.

Al-Albaani’s Du’aa Regarding Being Fanatical Towards a Madhhab

“I ask Allaah to protect me and you from fanatical ‘madhhabism’, and that He grants us and you success in following the truth whoever it is with and that we go wherever it does.”

Ad-Da’eefah, 9/375.

On Fanatical Blind Followers

Renouncing some of the fanatical Hanafis, the Shaikh said, “[This is] enough twisting and turning, O people, in defence of your Imaam even though he is not to blame, because he stopped at what he knew, so you have to follow what is established in the Sunnah, for it is the foundation. And if it [i.e., a particular proof] eluded your Imaam then it hasn’t eluded you, and through it, the proof has been established against you.”

Ad-Da’eefah, 12/1/298.

The Legislated Way of Honouring the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم

“Honouring the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in the legislated manner is done by believing in everything that has been authentically affirmed from him, and by doing so, belief in him being both a slave and Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم is brought together, without going to extremes or falling short.

For he صلى الله عليه وسلم is a man, according to the testimony of the Book and the Sunnah–but the Chief of Man and, unequivocally, the best of them according to the texts of the authentic hadiths, and as his life’s chronicles and biography prove, and due to the noble manners and praiseworthy characteristics that Allaah the Most High bestowed upon him which were not perfected in any man as they were in him صلى الله عليه وسلم, and Allaah the Most Great spoke the Truth when He addressed him with His Noble Statement, “And verily, you are on an exalted [standard of] character.”” [Qalam 68:4]

As-Saheehah, 1/1/167.

On Oaths

“The one who prefers taking an oath by someone apart from Allaah over taking an oath by Allaah has made him a partner with Allaah, and unfortunately most of the Muslims do not know this type of shirk.”

Al-Hudaa wan-Noor, 52.

Is It Allowed for a Muslim Woman to Kill Herself For Fear of Being Raped

Questioner: Okay, O Shaikh, regarding what is happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina, may Allaah protect it and the Muslims from evil, some Bosnian Muslim women have started to kill themselves and commit suicide when they come to know that the unbelievers or the Serbs are going to commit fornication with them, is that allowed?

Al-Albaani: It is not allowed.

Questioner: Even in their case?

Al-Albaani: It is not allowed.

Questioner: And the solution, what is it, they should defend themselves?

Al-Albaani: Yes.

Questioner: Even if it leads to fornication being committed with them?

Al-Albaani: The answer to this has already finished: even if.

Al-Hudaa wan-Noor, 594.

Is it Allowed to Backbite Someone who is Defiantly Disobedient [a Faasiq]?

Questioner: Is it allowed to backbite someone who is defiantly disobedient [a faasiq] in order to warn against him and so as not to fall into trials [fitnah] like fornication and stealing?

Al-Albaani: Naturally, [that is] the least that can be said, otherwise it is obligatory.

Al-Hudaa wan-Noor, 12.