Why Do we Ignore the Verses of Allah?

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Unfortunately many somalis follow this sect without knowing their origin. Let me share with you an article that summarize their origin.

 

The Rise of Political Islam : Wahhabism and Neo-Salafism

 

The Wahhabis -- or Salafis, as they prefer to be known -- represent one of the most powerful influences on contemporary Islam. A radical religious-reform movement with strong political overtones, the Wahhabis provide the ideological impetus and theological justification for many of the best-known Islamist or Islamic fundamentalist groups -- from populist movements like Pakistan’s Jamaat-i Islami and Algeria’s Islamic Salvation Front to terrorist organizations like Egypt’s al-Jihad and the international terrorist network al-Qaeda. Wahhabism is also the state religion of Saudi Arabia, a fact that contributes greatly to its power and influence in the world today.

 

Many traditional Islamic scholars consider the Wahhabi doctrine heretical, and the vast majority of mainstream Muslims eschew it. Nonetheless, Wahhabism continues to spread through the financial support of the Saudis and its appeal to the people in the Muslim world who are critical of the West’s cultural influence on Islam and who want a return to traditional Islam.

 

HISTORY OF THE WAHHABI MOVEMENT

 

 

The Wahhabi movement began some 250 years ago as a relatively obscure schismatic sect based among the Bedouin tribes of eastern Arabia. It was founded by Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab (1703-92), a theological firebrand who believed that innumerable errors and innovations had corrupted Islam’s original message, and who set out to purge them with puritanical zeal. He and his followers denounced many aspects of the religion, including mysticism and traditional Islamic jurisprudence. This allowed the Wahhabis to reinterpret Islam without reference to previously accepted beliefs, traditions and norms. To emphasize this point, the Wahhabis declared most scholars and religious thinkers who preceded them “unbelievers†and announced that any Muslims who did not embrace their new doctrine would, along with Jews and Christians, be viewed as “enemies of Islam.â€

 

The mainstream scholars of his day quickly branded Abdul-Wahhab as a heretic, but he forged a political alliance with Muhammad ibn Saud, a powerful tribal chief in the Najd region of Arabia. Together, they launched a bloody insurrection against the Ottoman Empire in 1744. The rebellion was soon crushed, but the descendants of the two men continued to work together to promote Wahhabism and undermine the authority of the Ottoman state. With the help of the British, the Wahhabis launched a new revolt on the eve of World War I. This time they were more successful, helping to destroy the Ottoman Empire and ultimately establishing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

 

 

 

THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEO-SALAFIS

 

 

Some organizations, such as the Muslim Brotherhood movement, eschewed the Wahhabi appellation and dubbed themselves “Salafis†-- a reference to the last generation of early Muslims, whom Abdul-Wahhab believed still practiced the “pure faith.†Like their predecessors, they rejected classical Islamic theology and jurisprudence. At the same time, they began constructing a new paradigm that drew heavily on modernist ideas of national liberation and Marxian notions of world revolution.

 

Increasingly, these neo-Salafi groups defined themselves in opposition to the West. Their goals, however, remained as much religious as political. They continued the process of “purifying†Islam begun by their Wahhabi predecessors. In practice, this led to the oppression of women, a growing intolerance for other faiths and, more recently, the sanctioning of terrorist violence -- all things which Islam traditionally forbade, but which the Wahhabi reinterpretation of the religion allowed.

 

SAUDI ARABIA’S STATE RELIGION

 

 

Nowhere are the results of these efforts more apparent than in Saudi Arabia, where Wahhabism has become the official sect, and the alliance between the Saud family and the descendants of Abdul-Wahhab remains the basis of government. The tremendous wealth of the Saudi state has fueled a worldwide campaign to promote the Wahhabi view of Islam, resulting in the financing of publishing houses, religious schools, mosques and charities around the world.

 

The March 1, 2002, edition of Ain al-Yaqeen, the official Saudi English-language weekly, documented the success of this widespread promotional campaign: “In terms of Islamic institutions, the result is some 210 Islamic centers wholly or partly financed by Saudi Arabia, more than 1,500 mosques and 202 colleges and almost 2,000 schools for educating Muslim children in non-Islamic countries.â€

 

Many experts say this financial support has given the Wahhabi or neo-Salafi movement a voice entirely disproportionate to its numbers.

 

“The Saudi state and its religious hierarchy are major producers and exporters of Salafi publications, missionary operations and humanitarian assistance,†says Dr. Quintan Wiktorowicz, professor of international studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn. “The transnational organization of the movement, which incorporates a myriad of nationalities, renders it an effective and influential force in the Muslim world.â€

 

WARNING

 

Wahhabis today call themselves "Salafis," in an attempt to confuse the Muslim masses that they adhere to the methodology of the pious Salaf, or predecessors, i.e. the Sahabahs, the Tabi’un, and Itba’u-t-Tabi’in. For example, some of the true Salaf applied ta’wil, or figurative interpretation, to Allah’s Attributes. Imam Bukhari gave a figurative interpretation of wajh to mean "Allah’s Dominion," in Suratu-l-Qasas, ayah 88. This can be found in the Sahih of Bukhari in the Chapter "Tafsir ul-Qur’an." Plenty of other examples exist of how the Wahhabi-Salafis oppose the practices of the true and pious Salaf.

 

The following writers are representatives of this cult. Their followers call them "Shaykhs", and Muslims must stay away from their books, papers and Web pages, and do not confuse them with real Sunni scholars:

 

Yusuf al-Qaradawi al-Misri (the one who says that salah in al-Aqsa is "haram". He unites the errors of Wahhabis and the errors of Ikhwanis in a new form of heresy. He also claims that suicide terror attacks finalized to the assassination of civilians are "lawful" in Islam).

 

‘Abdu-l-‘Aziz Ibn Baz (the deceased official "Mufti" of the Saudi regime and their Rabitah, who oppressed Ahlu-s-Sunnah in al-Haramayn).

 

Muhammad Nasiru-d-Din al-Albani (a recently disappeared pseudo-muhaddith from Albania who classified hadiths according to his unlimited fantasy and forbade women to wear golden ornament).

 

Abu Aminah Bilal Philips (a ultra-Wahhabi from Jamaica who forges claims in the history of fiqh, full of slanders and absurd accusations against Ahlu-s-Sunnah).

 

Muhammad Nubar Yahya Silmy (a propagandist of Wahhabism in Sri Lanka who is very much hostile to the Sunni ‘aqidah).

 

Shiraz Mohammadali (a former Shi'ite from Sri Lanka who converted to Wahhabism and fanatically supports all of al-Albani's heresies)

 

Abu Bilal Mustafah al-Kanadi.

 

Muhammad Saleh ibn Al-Uthaymin (an anthropomorphist who believes that Allah is "located in the upper direction").

 

Saleh Fawzan Al-Fawzan.

 

'Abdur-Rahman Rosario Pasquini (an Ikhwani propagandist in Milano who, because of senescence, supports linguistic bid'at like "Allah is monopersonal" - sic! - "Muslims are islamocratics", wa na'udhu bi-Llah, afala yatadhakkarun).