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Peace be upon you and the mercy of God.
Without preamble, a word to those who are labeled with descriptions such as "the awakening," "the Salulites," and "the hypocrites": Have you dealt with them as the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, dealt with the head of hypocrisy, Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul?
Isn't our collective slogan to emulate the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, in all situations? Then let us see how he dealt with the problem of "Salulism."
Ibn Salul was associated with an external agenda; Abu Dawood narrated, with a chain of transmission authenticated by Al-Albani, that Quraysh wrote to Ibn Salul and his followers, inciting him to fight the Prophet, peace be upon him, and his companions. Ibn Salul intended to do so. When this reached the Prophet, peace be upon him, he met with them and said to them: "The threat of Quraysh against you has reached me in exaggerated terms. They are plotting against you more than you intend to plot against yourselves. Do you want to fight your sons and brothers?"
When they heard this from the Prophet, peace be upon him, they dispersed. Yes, they dispersed, and the spark of war was extinguished. A political speech from the Prophet, peace be upon him, spared the call from a confrontation at the wrong time. This was despite the fact that the Prophet, peace be upon him, had received certain news of Ibn Salul's conspiracy with the disbelievers. A speech that if used today would be seen by "the people of ignorance" as appeasement and giving in to weakness in religion, as they see that there is no saying except "I have come to you with slaughter," which the Prophet only said to the open disbelievers.
Ibn Salul slandered, insulted, stabbed, and incited, not against a group of Muslims who had wronged him, but against the Messenger of God personally. The Messenger of God came to him and said, "Leave me alone, your donkey's dung has harmed me!" A man from the Ansar said, "By God, the Messenger of God's, peace be upon him, donkey has a better smell than you." Ibn Salul's men were angered, and there was fighting between the two parties with sticks, hands, and sandals. Then God revealed: "And if two factions of the believers fight, then reconcile between them." (The hadith is agreed upon).
Those who were angered by Ibn Salul's insults were called believers by God, yes believers, even though they were biased towards someone who had harmed the Messenger of God, peace be upon him. But God Almighty knows that they were new to faith and had not yet rid themselves of the remnants of ignorance, so they were still biased towards Ibn Salul despite their love for God and His Messenger. And God did not name them, nor did His Messenger, because of this incident, "apostate awakening" or "hypocrisy."
So how about the thousands of fighters in Sham who are biased towards their leaders out of kinship, or infatuation with slogans, or recent conversion to Islam after decades of darkness under the Nusayri? Are these leaders like Ibn Salul to you? Then be to them like the Messenger.
One day, the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, approached Ibn Salul and those with him, calling them to God. Ibn Salul said rudely, "O man, a man about whom I know nothing but good, and who does not enter my house except with me." Sa'd ibn Mu'adh (the leader of the Aws) stood up and said, "I, O Messenger of God, will defend you. If he is from the Aws, I will strike off his neck, and if he is from our brothers among the Khazraj, we will command you and do as you command."
The leader of the Khazraj, Sa'd ibn Ubada, was angered that a Khazraji (from his tribe) would be killed, and he responded and the two parties almost fought while the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, was standing on the pulpit, calming them until they were silent and he was silent. (The hadith was narrated by Al-Bukhari).
O people, it was an offer to the Messenger of God - may our souls be his ransom - and yet he remained silent lest there be strife among the Muslims. And it was not even reported that he rebuked Sa'd ibn Ubada for the zeal that deprived the Prophet of his right in this world, nor that he said to him, "How do you defend a man who has insulted me?"
Brothers, you see "tweets" and statements from some of your adversaries as stabs, and by God, no matter how much they reach, they will not reach a tenth of the harm Ibn Salul caused to the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, in his family. Do you see them as indicative of "Salulism"? Then be to their owners like the Messenger of God was to Ibn Salul.
O Muslims who are hasty to label your adversaries as "awakening" and "Salulism," this is our role model, the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, who prioritized, did not deviate from the compass of concerns, and did not open a thousand doors for himself. His mission was not to label people with "Salulism" and then bombard them with excommunication, but to absorb the companions of Ibn Salul and his supporters until they left him, and to withdraw the carpet from under his feet and isolate him socially. So Ibn Salul died peacefully, and neither the heaven nor the earth wept for him, but he went to the dump of history while the call of the Prophet, peace be upon him, remained eternal until the Day of Judgment.
And in all of this, God approves of His Messenger, and He only forbade him from dealing with Ibn Salul when he prayed for him, so He forbade him from praying for such a one. And this was the action of the Prophet with a hypocritical group that he knew was plotting against Islam and its people intentionally. So what about factions that are more numerous and we consider them to want to serve Islam and strive for that? Should they not be won over with gentleness and mercy if they err and some of them deviate from their path?
And all this dealing from the Prophet, peace be upon him, did not prevent him from establishing the state of Islam, nor did he make concessions for it. This Messenger did not rush into confrontation before faith could take root in the hearts and gradually remove the love of Ibn Salul from the hearts of his family and clan, until his son Abdullah ibn Abdullah ibn Ubayy, who was one of the best of believers.
Would the Messenger of God have gambled with Ibn Salul under the pretext of "preventing his danger" because he was "an awakening Saluli"? Bringing believers who still sympathize with Ibn Salul into the circle of conflict, let alone those weak in faith whose good end is hoped for, then alienating the Prophet from their relatives, clans, friends, and neighbors?
Then they justify the correctness of their method by the multitude of enemies! And they burden the people with the weight of their "awakening" and "Salulism" and complain to God about their injustice! Instead of winning people over to what we see as right and saving them from those who conspire against Islam, we excel in predicting that they are "awakenings" and hunt for slips on that basis.
Then, if they become more estranged from us and fight us, we put them and the corrupt and the Salulis in one pot, threaten them with crushing and annihilation, then detonate the bombs, and do not attribute the disaster to ourselves and our practices. Then, after all this, we wait for them to seek help from the enemies in earnest, fleeing from our evil, so that someone may say: "Did I not tell you? I possess a sixth or seventh sense that others do not possess, which smells the awakening from afar!"
O brother, he may not be an awakening, but he has the potential, so you drive him to awakening by force, even if he is reluctant, and you rush to the well of employment, exaggerating in precaution so that he does not escape from us!
I say this here with complete honesty: I am not pleased with many of the actions of leaders in Islamic factions, whom their opponents unjustly describe as "Sahaba of Satan." However, I defend them when they are wronged, because I know with certainty that they are better than the "Sahaba of Satan." We will never concede that those who shed their blood and the blood of their soldiers are superior.
Whoever enters Islam with certainty will not leave it except with certainty. Although we fear for them that the path may deviate in the future, their "plates" in the present are more harmful to Islam and its people. Whoever accuses others of such allegations, generalizes, and kills based on them, is not worthy of being praised and accepted until he defends his opponents and clears himself.
If the enemies of the religion want their "Sahaba of Satan," it is not our task to hold them accountable for what our enemies want from them, but to win them over and remind them, for there is still hope in them. If we do not succeed in this task, then at least we should win over their followers and make their faith prevail over their partisanship for a faction or their leaders.
O you who correct, fear Allah and do not say "the time has passed" after the fighting has begun. Your opponents seek to stop fighting and refer to the Book of Allah and reunite to fight the disbelievers. Do you not want to treat them as Muslims? I will not engage in this debate, although the majority of them are Muslims in our view, neither hypocrites nor disbelievers nor "Sahaba of Satan." I say to you: are they "Sahaba of Satan" to you? Then be to them as the Messenger was.
O Allah, have I conveyed? O Allah, then bear witness. O Lord, unite the ranks of the mujahideen and reconcile their hearts.
Peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah.