Shaikh Faisal Bin Qazaar Al-Jaasim (@faisalaljasem) wrote on Twitter (9th January 2025):
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The Prophet ﷺ said: “The Hour will not be established until the buttocks of the women of Daws move while going around (the idol of) Dhul-Khalasa.” (Sahih Al-Bukhari 7116)
The hadith indicates that idols will return to the Arabian Peninsula – the peninsula of Tawheed (monotheism) and cradle of the message (of Prophet Muhammad Salallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam) – in the end times, and they will be venerated and worshipped. This matter will not occur overnight, but rather through prerequisites and preceding events that pave the way for it.
Among these: The veneration of antiquities, the installation of ancient defunct idols in museums, and the revival of what is called cultural and civilizational heritage. The manifestations of this trial have begun in our days, as we have started to witness search and excavation for idols previously worshipped in the Arabian Peninsula, under the name of reviving antiquities, and their installation in museums.
Statues of idols worshipped by current pagan nations like Buddhism and Hinduism have also been installed, and their temples have been built in the Arabian Peninsula, including those of their worshipped idols and statues. Moreover, Pharaonic idols and statues symbolizing their multiple deities have been carved in the Arabian Peninsula, and these sculptures were installed in some public recreational places, and placed in temples that simulate Pharaonic temples and their drawings, in the “Egyptian Corner” representing Egyptian culture in that public recreational location.
It is not hidden that directly carving idols is more sinful and carries a harsher ruling than merely installing carved items under the name of reviving antiquities. This includes: Building churches and pagan temples in the Arabian Peninsula. Under this trial falls: Veneration of the Prophet’s ﷺ relics, such as venerating the Cave of Hira and making it a tourist destination, and venerating other relics that are too numerous to count.
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Shaikh Faisal Bin Qazaar Al-Jaasim (@faisalaljasem) wrote on Twitter (9th January 2025):
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So what is the position of the callers to Tawheed and Sunnah, and protectors of Aqeedah, regarding this new phenomenon in the Arabian Peninsula?
Are these not great evils that clash with Tawheed and scratch at its foundation, necessitating denial and clarification?What is the position of those whom we might call preachers of “National Salafism” (As-Salafiyyah Al-Wataniyyah) regarding these great evils?
Have they fulfilled what Allah has obligated upon them of advice, denial, and clarification in the most important matters of religion and creed?
Or is excessive and exaggerated warning against the evils of groups and parties – to agree with the rulers’ desires – more worthy of denial and attention than these evils related to the foundation of religion and the creed of Tawheed (Monotheism) in the Arabian Peninsula?! This is a great trial that must be confronted with advice, denial, warning, and clarification.
Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan said about the preachers’ duty towards this Fitnah (trial):
“When this trial occurs, you must take a position in repelling it from Muslims, and providing clarification and advice to those in authority about this matter.
Otherwise, if scholars and Muslims remain silent, the people of evil will increase in their evil and will not stop at any limit”. (End quote.)
So what is the role of the As-Salafiyyah Al-Wataniyyah (Nationalist Salafis) preachers today, in repelling, fighting, and denying this new Fitnah?
If we were to enumerate the evils related to the foundations (Usool) of religion, its constants, and its great principles, which we have begun to witness emerging, spreading, and being called to in the Arabian Peninsula, it would take too long. As for other general evils that have begun to spread, they are too numerous to be contained.
Where are the preachers who have long sung about the importance of Aqeedah and Tawheed, and the obligation to prioritize them over other religious matters, and who downplayed the spread of other sins like singing, dancing, nudity, and mixing under the pretext of the safety of Tawheed and Aqeedah?!
Where is their role in denying the callers to distortion, westernization, and enlightenment, like Muhammad Al-Issa in his recent propositions and others like him?! Where are the Shaikhs who have great activity in denying (deviant) groups and organisations, among those who sing about protecting Manhaj and Aqeedah, and preserving Tawheed?!
Where is the “scholar knowledgeable in the principles of the predecessors” Sulaiman Al-Ruhaili?! And where are: Abdus Salam As-Suhaimi, Muhammad Al-Fifi, Muhammad Omar Bazmool, Ibrahim Al-Muhaimid, Muhammad bin Ramzan Al-Hajri, Abdul Aziz Ar-Rayyis, Hamad Al-Ateeq, and others like them from the preachers of the new Nationalist Salafism?!
And where is: The long-tongued, excessive in nonsense, great in falsehood and slander, from these evils?!
And where is: Muhammad bin Ghaith, and many personalities and accounts associated with this new nationalist trend?! Perhaps someone might say: Most of them remained silent due to their inability. And there is no obligation with inability.
I say: These people did not merely remain silent when they were unable, but rather they fought against those who denied these and similar evils, showed enmity towards them, defamed them with everything they could, and accused those who carried out denial in the legitimate, non-innovative way with (titles like): Ikhwanu, Sururi, Khariji, revolutionary(Thawriyyah), and other numerous accusations.
The Imam of the era Ibn Baaz said: “If the people of truth remained silent about clarifying it, those in error would continue in their errors, others would imitate them in that, and those who remained silent would bear the sin of concealment”. (End quote.)
Therefore, the true callers to Allah must be aware of the danger of this nationalist trend, which falsely claims Salafism, for it is one of the tools of distortion and change, whether they realize it or not. They must cooperate in confronting the wave of westernization and distortion, especially what relates to the foundations of religion and its constants, and follow the legitimate method in clarification, advice, denial, and warning, while avoiding the ways of the Kharijites and revolutionaries.
They should arm themselves with knowledge, improve their purposes and intentions, prefer what is with Allah over what is with people, and prepare themselves for patience.
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