Re: What is salafite ?
Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullah,
Pakistaniabroad posted:
*i do have a question for my Salafite brothers on the forum..
why oh why do you not weed out the "agents" within your folds? why do you not shun them totally or humiliate and disbar them immediately when they from within your organization/sect preach hatred and intolerance..
who's the 'fatwa chief' head honcho for Salafites these days anyway?*
I am not salafite (and the present day people known as salafi do not call themselves salafites- i hope people are reading the links i sent out because they explain that), but the answer to your question is simple. Where I live, in NJ, I have visited a couple masaajids that have a majority of african americans who are salafi. I, however, travel often to the two masaajid near my home (which consist of a majority of pakistani's who are hanafi) due to the ease and lack of transportation. I visit the other masaajids a few times a month because the lectures are very beneficial, alhamdulillah. Whenever, I go there, I see the brothers rocking the Thawbs, the kufi, and somtimes the lunghi (even though dress isnt everything) and women with niqaabs. But I have never seen any of them support what you claim they support. In fact, I just visited the one in newark, NJ for an event about 'Family structure and child education in Islam'. Though (one of) the speakers was not on topic (since they changed his schedule), he gave a talk on 'The real Salafi'. His talk was based on a book one of the shaykh's he knew had wrote (for all the arabic readers, check it out- it is called, 'The Real salafi') and near the end, he mentioned how Islam is a religion based upon the fitrah, and so in no way can it support terrorism or violence. He mentioned from the quran the proof, and also gave a list of scholars who issued fataawa against it. So here the salafi's show that they do not support those who engage in these acts .This also explains 'avioding agents' because which ones do you want me to aviod? Those ones in this country that I just mentioned? or If you're talking about the ones out doing terrorism, then... (read below)
If you read the link i posted before on OBL and jihad, you will find out that media outlets like CNN and FOX are distorting the truth by labeling those terrorists wahabbi's or salafis. But if I were to say that there is not a single terrorist who claims to be salafi, then I would also be wrong. However, the few that do such are obviously not salafi, due to what the actual stance of salafi is (not supporting terrorist acts).
There is no 'fatwa chief' head honcho for salafites. The daleel of the salafi on different issues is from quran wa sunnah and what has been approved by these two. (ijma', etc.)
In addition, I would like to say that I read an article in the "MUSLIMS" newspaper, and the reporter was saying that today we see Muslims race towards condemning the attacks that are occuring in places like the U.S, Spain, and U.K. Ok, there is nothing wrong with that, but you see that these same people (or most of them), in comparison to the time they spend on condemning those attacks, you rarely find them condemning what is happening in Palestine, Bosnia, Chechnya, Iraq, Kashmir, etc. (my side note: they basically are sucking up to the same people who opress their brothers and sisters, another side note: not everyone might have this intention) Basically, the message is that the Muslims end up fighting against each other (which Allah tells us is what the kaafiroon want; to divide the ummah). This reminds me of a quote my friend put up as his signature for emailing:
"You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. It is a wonder that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children have died as a result of your sanctions, and you did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down."
I might have been a little blunt in this post, If i offended anyone one- it was not intentional, so forgive me
And Allah Knows Best.