Iblis' Tricks (1)
You are under Iblis' infuence when you always wish that so-and-so Muslims, who do not subscribe to your thoughts, go astray so that you can score a point against them.
The cure to that is that you should always pray for guidance for your brothers.
Iblis' Tricks (2)
You are a potential friend of the devil if you see everyone around you who tries to follow the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) as heretics (and astray) but you and a handful of youths.
Iblis'Tricks (3)
You are running an errand for Shaytaan if you believe that all the scholars who travelled far and wide to acquire the knowledge of the Qur'aan and Sunnah, and who actually came back home trying their efforts to cleanse the land from Shirk and Bid'ah, have deviated but you who had not really sat down to learn the Deen anywhere except via reliance on the Internet sources.
Iblis' Tricks (4)
You are courting Iblis if you believe that the actual knowledge is by engaging in Fitnah between scholars such that you see those who stand away and get themselves busy with real learning as lacking the proper knowledge of Islam.
Iblis' Tricks (5)
You are under the whispers of the devil when you believe you alone can handle the Da'wah efforts of all the places in your region such that you undermine the efforts of others.
Iblis' Tricks (6)
That you believe that the likes of Sh. Sulayman ar-Ruhaylee, Sh. Saalih as-Suhaymee, Sh. Saalih al-Usaymee, Sh. AbdurRazzaq al-Badr, Sh. Abdussalam Shuway'ir and host of other eminent Shuyookh calling to the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah of His Messenger - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam - are not upright because they do warm the youths from engaging in issues between the scholars.
Iblis' Tricks (7)
That you covet silent but manifest hatred for Sh. Bakr Abu Zayd (rahimahullah), Sh. Abdulmuhsin Abbaad (hafidhahullaah), Sh. Wasiyyullah Abbaas (hafidhahullaah), Sh. Falaah al-Mandikaar (rahimahullah), etc, for their warning against you, the youths, from causing dissension between the scholars of Sunnah.
Iblis' Tricks (8)
That after the Saudi Arabian Supreme Court judgement exonerating Sh. Muhammad Haadee - hafidhahullaah - from the allegation of slander against him, you still go on disparaging him, referring to him as if he is a commoner, and insinuating that the court judgement is wrong (for this, you are very faraway from Salafiyyah).
Iblis' Tricks (9)
It is tadlees (hiding the reality) to say 'the Senior Scholars have spoken' when you are referring to just about two or three (there is a Shaykh you used to include here who is not qualified to be referred to one of the Kibaar, sorry) out of like ten or more Kibaar.
Iblis' Tricks (10)
In a dispute of knowledge between two scholars of Sunnah whereby one accused the other of heresy, and the other tried to defend himself with proofs, and you say you will not listen to his defence until his opposing scholar says otherwise.
You are not only a bigot, a foolish one for that matter.
Iblis' Tricks (11)
Getting flashy Islamic appellations for your groups such as 'Perfect Understanding', 'Righteous Formation', 'Salafi Methodology', 'Bid'ah Bursters', 'Innovators' Foes', etc, cannot save you from bigotry and heresies if your acts are in contrary to what those good names connote.
The maxim says: 'The real thing is the content not the brand'.
Anybody can name himself whatever he likes, what you do is the main thing.
Iblis' Tricks (12)
Being fanatical about certain noble scholars of the Sunnah, forgetting that they are mortals who can fall into errors of any kind, forgetting that the Sahabee Ibn Mas'ood - radiyallahu anhu - said it is only those who died on Sunnah that are safe from deviations; and that only those can be taken as exemplars. Exaggerating love for them (as they exaggerated it for certain scholars who later 'fell' in their sight), weaving al-Waraa Wal Baraa around them, doing tahazzub over their thoughts, treating their words as Wahy (revelations), using them to cause divisions among the general Muslims, enforcing the commoners to see them as the custodians of the absolute truth, over praising them while the Messenger of Allaah - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam - himself said 'do not overpraise me as the Christians overpraise Eesa bn Maryam.'
Iblis' Tricks (13)
Thinking that the statement of Imaam Daaril Hijrah (Al-Imaam Maalik), rahimahullah, that 'there is none among us except that he can reject another person's statement (upon conviction) and can have his own statement rejected (also when the rejecters are so convinced) except the person of the Messenger of Allaah - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam'; that some certain present and past scholars are immune to mistakes, and from criticisms.
Iblis' Tricks (14)
Iblis' Tricks (15)
Not having time to study the basic texts of the Shariah. The Qur'aan you have not mastered its recital let alone memorizing it. The common Ar'baoon Nawawiyyah, you are nowhere to be found. Ajroomiyyah, you cannot render it as it is supposed to. Matn Jamzooree, not your portion. Min atyabi man'h, you have not heard it before. Yet when it comes to Jar'h Wa-Ta'deel you are its 'master' inasmuch as you have surrendered yourself to eternal Taqleed. You are indeed a sa'fooq - who enters a shopping mall with no money but staring at goods to buy. A wishful thinker. You won't get anywhere.
Iblis' Tricks (16)
To implicitly say that all the Muslims of the world should see the opinions of two scholars or three as the true positions they can work it especially in the area of criticism of men, that whoever fails to abide with the opinions of the two or three scholars would be regarded a deviant after some warming.
Iblis' Tricks (17)
Believing that anytime any scholar quotes the statement of Imaam Daaril Hijrah, Maalik bn Anas - rahimahullah, 'that there is none that cannot reject a (faulty) statement of any person, and have his own (faulty) statement rejected except the person of the Messenger of Allaah - sallallahu alayhi wa sallam; you believe the application of the statement is an affront on the scholars you have given a cloak of invincibility and infallibility.
That statement of Imaam Maalik is what removes all sense of hizbiyyah from the mind.
Iblis' Tricks (18)
That the knowledge of the correct manhaj and Aqeedah can only be acquired in a particular country or region under certain people.
Al-Imaam adh-Dhahabi - rahimahullah - said:
العلم بØر بلا ساØÙ„ØŒ وهو Ù…Ùرق ÙÙŠ الأمة، موجود لمن التمسه
'The knowledge (of Islam) is a sea none can sail through, it is (proportionally) distributed in the Ummah, and can be attained by whoever seeks it.' as-Siyar 9/456
