ash-Shaykh al-'Allaamah 'Ubayd al-Jaabiree on 'Abdullaah ash-Shuraykah (of Kuwait)

The questioner: 

May Allaah be good to you,  what is meaning of the hadeeth “Whoever wants to advise in the one in authority…” – the hadeeth, and does the one who the people choose as representatives for them enter into this hadeeth? for indeed some people (use it) as a justification for them (these representatives) to criticize the rulers, and say:  (that is) because they are charged with authority, and this statement has been spread by Dr. ‘Abdullaah bin Miflih ar-Rasheedee, well-known by ash-Shuraykah.

Ash-Shaykh ‘Ubayd al-Jaabiree:

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم .
الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين , أما بعد :

So the wording of this hadeeth in totality (is) – and it is saheeh by all of it’s routes (of transmission) – collected by Ahmad and Ibn Abee ‘Aasim in “as-Sunnah” and other than them, and it was declared saheeh by al-Imaam, al-‘Allaamah, al-Muhaddith, ash-Shaykh Naasir رحمه الله:

  ⁾⁾من أراد أن ينصح لذي سلطان فلا يبده علانية , وليخلوا به وليأخذ بيده , فإن قبلها قبلها , وإن ردها فقد أدى ما عليه   ⁽⁽

(( Whoever wants to advise the one in authority, then he should not do it openly (in public), rather let him take him behind closed doors (in private) and take him by his hand (and advise him).  So if he accepts it from him, then that is good, and if he rejects it, then he has carried out what was upon him to do. ))

So this hadeeth conveys:

Firstly: complete secrecy in advising the ruler and likewise his representatives, away from even the closest of people to him if possible. 

And it conveys secondly: the blamelessness of advising the ruler in the way the hadeeth implies, and that the haakim (ruler) is not obligated to accept his advice, so the obligation is discharged with nothing more than his advice, in this way that the hadeeth implies.  And thirdly it conveys: that there is no other way to be followed in advising the ruler, and by this it is known that what some of the people pursue in the media - visual, printed, or audio - and likewise in the khutbahs,  seminars, and lectures - from spreading the mistakes of those in authority and defaming them – that it is not from the Sunnah. Rather it is the path of the Khawaarij al-Qaa’idiyyah or al-Qa’idiyyah, and indeed the A’immah of Ahlus-Sunnah have warned against them.

And they do not cease to have heads in every time and place, and every time a leader appears from them and one of them raises his voice with baatil, Allaah raises up for him a man or men from Ahlus-Sunnah who refute his baatil.  And this, inshaa’allaah, is it’s confirmation in the hadeeth that doesn’t go below the level of hasan:

⁾⁾ يحمل هذا العلم من كل خلف عدوله , فينفون عنه تحريف الغالين وانتحال المبطلين وتأويل الجاهيلن ⁽⁽

“This knowledge will be carried by it’s trustworthy ones from every generation.  They will remove from it the distortions of the excessive ones, and the false claims of the liars, and the false interpretations of the ignorant ones.”

May Allaah make us and you from them and with them by al-Qawl ath-Thaabit in the life of this world and in the Aakhirah.

So if this is established, then here are two issues:

The first issue (is): that those representatives – according to my knowledge – the people have chosen them, and the Ameer did not appoint them.  But rather, he approved them.

Secondly:  that they are not those in authority [i.e. rulers].  Rather they are representatives of the people (who) convey their wishes to the haakim.  So from their duties is:

Firstly:  that they are truthful and sincere towards the haakim and the mahkoom in giving advice.

Secondly: if there are mistakes from the haakim, he should be advised privately.

Thirdly:  if the constituents make claims to those representatives, or the people claim to have grievances, that they try to examine them in order to establish what is correct and what is false, and what resembles the true reality (of the matter being raised), and what resembles empty rhetoric, arguing, and lying.

So if they corroborate these grievances, they raise them to the haakim and voice their opinion (to him) and urge him to remove these grievances.  And what is obligatory upon them is that this is done secretly between them and the haakim, for indeed this is from what the hadeeth necessitates and implies.  And it is prohibited for them to spread the haakim’s mistakes, whether it be the top judges in the state, or a deputy, or his prime minister, ministers, or other than this from those who have authority.

Instead it is upon them to fear Allaah عز وجل , and that they be with the ‘Ulamaa’ of the Muslims, striving in uniting upon the one who Allaah put in authority over them, and that they repel splitting and division the best they can and bridge the gap between the haakim and the mahkoom.  And we, when we say this, this is not from ourselves, rather this – by Allaah, by Allaah, by Allaah – is from what we’ve inherited from the a’immah of Ahlus-Sunnah who built their qawaa’id (principles) in ‘Ibaadah, behavior and manners towards others, upon the Book and the Sunnah and way of the Salafus-Saalih.

And the second matter:  this which has spread from Dr. 'Abdullaah bin Miflih ar-Rasheedee, well-known by ash-Shuraykah, from him this is not surprising, for indeed it has become apparent to us by proofs and evidences that the man is ikhwaanee, and he only holds on to shaykh Falaah and other than him in Kuwait as a deceptive plot (kayd) against Ahlus-Sunnah there (in Kuwait), so it is obligatory to warn against him, and I have things that establish his lies.

This, and may Allaah’s peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and Companions one and all.

Dictated by ‘Ubayd bin ‘Abdillaah bin Sulaymaan, former teacher in the Islaamic University (in al-Madeenah), the morning of al-Khamees (Thursday), the 24^th of the month of Rajab, 1433H, corresponding with the 14^th of June, 2012.  And may Allaah’s peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and Companions one and all. 

- End of the Shaykh’s Words –

  the audio file --

Shaykh 'Ubayd warns against Anwar al-Awkali

[Q]: The praise is for Allaah, and may the peace and salutations of Allaah be upon the Messenger of Allaah and upon his Family and his Companions and upon those who follow the guidance. To proceed:

So these are some of the statements of one of the du'aat (callers), his name is Anwar al-Awlaki. You will find these statements on his official website. We present them to the noble Shaykh 'Ubayd Ibn 'Abdillaah al-Jaabiree – (may Allaah preserve him) - so that he may comment upon them so we can then spread the answers and the comments among the brothers here in America and in Britian and throughout the West in general.

The first statement: "The rulers in the Arabian Peninsula are playing a central role in the fight against Islam especially the al Saud family. The al Saud of today is the Abdullah bin Ubay of yesterday."

And he says in the second statement: "May this be the beginning of the greatest Jihad, the Jihad of the Arabian Peninsula that would free the heart of the Islamic world from the tyrants who are deceiving the ummah and standing between us and victory." Should I - O Shaykh - mention the third statement as well or can I suffice with this?

[A]: Present the third statement.

[Q]: And the third is that this man says: "The Jihad in Somalia should carry on until the last AU soldier leaves the country and any forces that side with the AU -including the Sharif government -and Sharif is the president who won the recent election - become legitimate targets."

So what is your comment upon these statements, may Allaah bless you?

[A]: With the name of Allaah. The praise is for Allaah and may peace and salutations be upon his servant and Messenger Muhammad and upon his Family and all of his Companions.

The summary of what has become apparent to me from these three statements that you have quoted from a specific forum or a specific website for Anwar al-Awlaki, and the name Awlaki ('Awlaqee) proves that the origin of this man is Yemeni. The essence of what is comprised within these statements - in that which is apparent to me - are two affairs:

The first affair: is his ignorance concerning the fiqh of Jihaad. And that he does not know anything about the Jihaad, which is from the well-planned obligations that Allaah has established up until Allaah causes the earth and whosoever is upon it to perish.

And I suspect that this man has become polluted by the ideas of Sayyid Qutb al-Misree and similar to him are Aboo Qataad, Aboo Muhammad al-Maqdisee and many others besides them. All of these individuals and the same applies to this man have been influenced by the likes of Sayyid Qutb; and Sayyid Qutb, according to the people of research and experience with examining statements, is the flag bearer of takfeer in this time. His book, Ma'aalim fit-Tareeq (Milestones) proves this clearly as Sayyid erroneously and falsely declared the entire Ummah to be disbelievers, the rulers and their subjects.

And Jihaad according to Ahlis-Sunnah, who have inherited from Muhammad (sallallaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) the correct understanding of the religion, the correct understanding of worship and the correct understanding of social dealings, this Jihaad is of two categories:

Jihaadut-Talab (the offensive Jihaad) and Jihaadud-Daf' (the defensive Jihaad). Jihaadut-Talab is to mobilize the troops and to dispatch the armies and to prepare sufficient equipment in order to fight whosoever is surrounding them from the disbelievers to make the word of Allaah uppermost. And this is the responsibility and special role of the Muslim ruler. He is the one who can call to such an act, he is the one who establishes this and he himself is the one who leads it or he appoints someone to lead a military detachment.

So whosoever calls to Jihaad in a general manner (without consideration of the legislated prerequisites or guidelines), then he is one of two men, either he is ignorant concerning the fiqh of Jihaad or he is a person of desires who is misguided and misguiding others, an innovator. And regardless of whether he is the former or the latter, it is obligatory upon the Ummah to be cautious of him and to have hatred for him. And it is obligatory upon the Scholars to refute him and to warn against him.

The second is Jihaadud-Daf', and this is to defend against the assailant and the transgressor. So when an assailant and a transgressor from the disbelievers attacks and transgresses against a Muslim country, then it is permissible for the people of that country to defend themselves and to resist the attack in order to stop its evil and to challenge its deception. It is a required condition that they must have the ability and the strength to do this. So if they have the ability and the strength, they can mobilize themselves to defend against the subjugation of the transgressing party and to defeat its endeavour and to reject its tyranny.

If they do not have the ability and the strength for that, then they have two choices: they can either flee with their Religion and their honour to wherever they will be safe, or they can seek a treaty of peace with this tyrannical enemy and they can make contracts and agreements with him to preserve and safeguard the territory of the people of al-Islaam.

Therefore, it can be concluded from this that the required condition for Jihaadut-Talab (the offensive Jihaad) is the ruler, since it is from his special functions. And the required condition for Jihaadud-Daf' (the defensive Jihaad) is the strength and ability to carry it out. And strength and ability are necessary for both of these acts in order to defeat the endeavour of the enemies of Allaah.

The second matter that has become apparent from the first two statements is that this man harbours resentment against the Arabian Peninsula and he harbours resentment against the rulers from al-Saud. And due to this, he has described them with kufr (disbelief) or nifaaq (hypocrisy) or both of them. The crime of al-Saud according to him and his likes from the people of desires, splitting and the Khawaarij is that their nation is a nation of Tawheed and the Sunnah - every person of Sunnah testifies to this. And their nation has been the flag bearer of Tawheed and the Sunnah since its inception at the hand of al-Imaam Muhammad Ibn Sa'ood – may Allaah have mercy upon him; and verily it gives victory to Tawheed and the Sunnah.

Shaykh Muhammad Ibn 'Abdul-Wahhaab called to Tawheed and the Sunnah and the Imaam, the Ameer Muhammad Ibn Sa’ood used to aid him and defend him and he used to defend his call. And the fruit of that effort was that Allaah made this righteous Imaam, al-Mujaahid strong and influential due to his raising the flag of Tawheed and the Sunnah- I deem him as such and Allaah is his Reckoner. From the fruits of this da'wah was the establishment of a mighty nation. It has taken on the burden of establishing the Religion. And there is no person of Sunnah, except that his heart is with this nation. Likewise, it has taken on the political and economic burden. So these are all fruits of aiding Tawheed and the Sunnah.

The Khawaarij in every time and place have always had enmity towards Ahlus-Sunnah, the rulers and their subjects, because Ahlus-Sunnah are the farthest of the people from takfeer (wrongfully labelling a Muslim a disbeliever), let alone tabdee' (declaring someone an innovator) and tafseeq (declaring someone a disobedient sinner), except with a proof that obligates takfeer, or tabdee' or tafseeq of the individual. And this is known to those who are familiar with the history of Ahlus-Sunnah and their written works. However, the one who has been overwhelmed by malice and desire has become deep-rooted within him, then he opposes Ahlus-Sunnah and displays enmity towards them.

So it is not strange that Awlaki should take this path, since he has a predecessor and he himself is from the later followers. Consequently, I warn the Muslims firstly against this man and I call upon them to boycott him and to severe ties with him and to refute him with a knowledge based refutation that will expose his call and reveal his true condition and show that he is an enemy to the people of Islaam and the Sunnah. This individual and his likes are from those who have disfigured the image of Islaam and the image of the people of al-Islaam to the extent that they have driven those who do not possess intellect from the Jews and the Christians to attack the personality of the Messenger of Allaah and to degrade the Mushaf. This is because due to their lack of intellect and due to their lack of knowledge about Islaam and its people they think that him, his predecessors and his contemporaries represent the people of Islaam; and that this path of theirs is the true path of the people of Islaam and that transgressing against the honour, wealth and the lives of others, and that the nullifying of contracts and ratified treaties between our rulers and the rest of the non-Muslim nations of the world, such as those of Europe and America, then these feeble-minded fools and those who have been deprived of justice and fairness, they think that this is the Islaam that we practice.

So how astonishing it is that America let this man remain therein, yet it raises its voice to say that it opposes terrorism, and as for us then we say that they are Khawaarij. Indeed this man and his likes are the terrorists that the Europeans, Americans and the Western world in general refer to, and I think that even the non-Muslims from the people of the East like Russia have labelled them with this title. So these individuals in reality are the instruments of terrorism and they are the river from which the Khawaarij draw out what they draw out to support their transgression against the people of Islaam and the Sunnah, and for their transgression against those whom we have contracts and treaties with (i.e. the non Muslim states), since they do not recognize any contract or treaty. They only declare people disbelievers en masse.

This is what I liked to make note of and I ask Allaah, the Glorified and Most High to keep the people of al-Islaam away from every evil and detestable thing and to withhold from them the evil of the Khawaarij, whether they are the Khawaarij who sit and incite others or whether they are the ones who physically participate themselves; and that He keeps the misery of the Khawaarij among their own selves and that He allows the Muslims to see a lesson in them; and that He seizes the Khawaarij with a mighty and strong seizure and that He makes them a lesson for those who take heed.

And may the peace and salutations of Allaah be upon our Prophet Muhammad and his Family and all of his Companions. This was dictated by one in need of Allaah: 'Ubayd Ibn 'Abdullaah Ibn Sulaymaan al-Jaabiree, a former professor at the Islamic University of al-Madeenah. And the date of this discussion was Wednesday night, the 23rd of Dhul-Qa'dah, in the year 1430H, corresponding to the 11th of November in the year 2009. And success is with Allaah. And may the peace and salutations of Allaah be upon our Prophet Muhammad and his Family and all of his Companions.

Source: TROID

Beneficial Audio files of Daroos (translated)

Listed below are some of the daroos from Live Salafi Daroos that the brothers may find beneficial, inshaa'Allaah.

Shaykh 'Ubayd al-Jaabiree - Explanation of Kitaabus-Siyaam from Lu'lu' wal-Marjaan (1-10)

Shaykh 'Ubayd - Kitaabus-Siyaam from 'Umdatul-Fiqh  1  |  2  | 3

Shaykh 'Ubayd - Explanation of 4o Hadeeth of An-Nawawee (1-8)

Shaykh Abool-'Abbaas - Tafseer of short Soorahs from the Qur'aan 1 |  2  |  3

Shaykh Ahmad bin 'Umar Baazmool  - Explanation of Minhaajus-Saalikeen (1-10)

Shaykh 'Ubayd's visited has been CANCELLED

Shaykh 'Ubayd's visit has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances - قدر الله ما شاء فعل

Shaykh 'Ubayd to visit Kuwait on way to Sri Lanka

We have received word from Shaykh al-'Anjaree and Shaykh Zayd that the noble Shaykh 'Ubayd bin 'Abdillaah al-Jaabiree (حفظه الله) is confirmed to visit Kuwait for a few days, inshaa'Allaah.  The Shaykh is supposed to travel with Shaykh al-'Anjaree to Sri Lanka - inshaa'Allaah - and will be in Kuwait starting from the 21st of February.

The schedule of lessons Shaykh 'Ubayd has agreed to (and is subject to change) is as follows:

Starting from 21 Feb.:

Between Maghrib and 'Ishaa': Dars in Masjid Al-'Abdali in Zahraa', accross from the Police Consuming Society

After 'Ishaa': Open Q&A in diwaaniyya of Shaykh Taariq and Shaykh Ahmad as-Subay'ee

After Fajr (22nd):  Dars in diwaaniyya of Sh. Zayd ad-Dawsiree

Stay tuned for more details as they become available....