Alongside that we permit ourselves and those who come after us who are not aware of our speech or your speech to refute these ugly and outrageous sayings that are present in your audios so that no one is deceived by them in accordance to what is needed in their time.”Īn illustration of a deceitful trickster: Shaikh Muhammad went on to say: “So Abul-Hasan stated: ‘Why is not my rectification accepted?’ I say: Not until you have done what Abul-Wafā Ibn ‘Aqīl did! Not until you have nullified these doubts you brought, word by word ! Then after that we will be with you.
“I free myself before Allaah, the Most High, from the madh’habs of the innovators: Al-I’tizāl (the beliefs of the Mu’tazilah) and from accompanying their leaders, and from praising their people and from invoking mercy upon their forefathers.” Thereafter Ibn Qudāmah (رحمه الله) brought a connected chain of narration wherein he quoted Ibn ‘Aqīl as having said: And had he not repented to Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, and freed himself, recanted and returned back from that, and had he not sought Allāh’s forgiveness from all of that which he had said of innovations, and that which he had written with his own hand, or that which he had authored or that which was ascribed to him, we would have counted him amongst the heretics, and renegade innovators.” And due to it Allaah exposed the corruption that he had concealed. “I looked into the book Al-Fadīhah (The Disgrace) of Ibn ‘Aqīl which he has entitled An-Nasīhah (The Advice) and I considered that which it contains of ugly innovations and hideous oppositions against the clear unobstructed correct path and I found it to be a scandalous disgrace upon the one who uttered it. Shaikh Muhammad stated: “And has Abul-Hasan in this audio refuted and nullified his mistakes in detail? No he has not – not at all.” Then he mentioned the story of the refutation of Imām Muwaffiqud-Dīn Ibn Qudāmah (d.620H رحمه الله, the author Al-Mughnī in fiqh and Lum’atul-I’tiqād in ‘aqīdah) against Abul-Wafā Ibn ‘Aqīl. Shaikh Muhammad Ibn Hādī sternly refuted the saying of Abul-Hasan Al-Ma’ribī who claimed no further refutation should be made upon the one who said “I have recanted.” Shaikh Muhammad responded: “This is a general statement in the presence of detailed corruption!” Meaning: what is it that he has recanted from? Saying, “I have recanted” is not enough unless there is detail to the retraction. So they had to rectify the deeds in their souls, and to clarify to the people that which they concealed from them…” “From the conditions of repentance of the caller to bid’ah is that he makes clear that which he used to call to from innovation and misguidance – and that guidance is its opposite just as Allāh has laid down the conditions of repentance for the People of the Book whose sin was concealing that which Allāh had revealed of clarification and guidance so as to misguide the people.