Wallahi as a young man growing up in the UK, Mohammed Hijab has helped me more than anyone in learning more about my deen. When I've been convinced by various sectarian groups his videos always bring me back to the middle ground. He makes mistakes and corrects himself as he learns, unlike the cultish behaviour we see from others. Nothing but respect, admiration and gratitude. May Allah swt bless you in the dunyah and akhira, ameen
The journey of every ex-Salafi. Mine too. Was filled with sectarianism, ego, jealousy and feeling superior and looking down upon other people and scholars
I am 70 years old, and have watched our religion here in America go from something very unknown to now something phobic. The religion is simple but the people in our religion complicate it in many ways and many times. Stick to the roots of the religion and please don't complicate it. Allah SWT knows best but I think he wants to make it easy on us, yet we are always complicating it and arguing sometimes with and without knowledge. Please be respectful of each other as an example for our brethren and those considering Islam. Love you all for the sake of Allah SWT.
When I first started practicing Islam, my brother who is a strict Salafi-Madkhali, almost made me give up on Islam wallahi. Alhamdulillah once I left these Madkhali mindset, I started feel better and started to love Islam with my heart. I totally agree with brother Mohammad and I‘m glad that he’s pointing out these things.
subhanAllah, i want so badly to call myself salafi but this is EXACTLY why i hesitate and don’t, literally feel the exact same way, very well said Allahumma Barik
Wallahi me and him went through a similar experience. Traditional Muslims NEED to get on the social media dawah game of these salafis so people don’t keep falling into these toxic paths
Jazakallahu Khairan Brother Hijab. You really highlighted the Crux of the issue that not all but a significant portion of this so called 'Salafi' Movement has. They claim to have a desire or want to go back to the Salaf, the pious predecessors, yet their actions are ironically in direct contrast to their claims when they make their scholars infallible and anyone that disagrees with even a single opinion of their Sheikh is automatically considered a deviant by them. Whereas in the Muslim Ummah and even amongst the salafs disagreements have happened yet they remained fairly united and cordial towards each other and respected each other's opinions. Same goes for their view on Taqleed, the criticize other for doing it yet they are the staunchest Muqliads around in reality, only changing the scholars they do Taqleed of. May Allah guide all of us and unite us for his sake. May Allah make them understand that not everyone that disagrees with them is a deviant and let them understand that Islamic history and knowledge and literature is much more vast and diverse as opposed to what they take it as.
Man, I relate to this soo much. It was never the main idea to follow the Qur’an and Sunnah and Salaf that was an issue. It was the arrogance, sectarianism, double standards, and allegiances which were were a huge turn off for me. It‘s just really frustrating because they’ll just brush you off as someone who does not like the way of the Salaf as if the way of the Salaf entails that garbage behavior.
I always thought “salafism” as weird because to disparage 1000+ years of incredible, diverse classical Islamic scholarship for a small band of modern scholars is absolutely ridiculous
I am an "athari" as well but I LOVE the mathab traditions ...few things are as exciting as fiqhi differences across the mathabs. So it really puzzles me why someone would want to abandon our rich mathab heritage.
I can totally relate to this. I used to be proud of being a "Salafi" for their pure Aqeedah but now after I have seen the dark side of these movements which has little to do with the Salaf but a lot more to do with their brand of Salafism, I no longer associate myself with this term. I'm a Muslim first and foremost Alhamdulillah.
Finally you explained your stances in a way that I completely agree with you and to be honest I was feeling the same lately. Hope you’ll post this on your main channel. I like your akhlaaq in this video as well. May Allah guide you and continue to guide you and guide me and the whole ummah 🤲🏽
You've just crushed it man, I cannot agree more with everything you have said. Great video, keep up the good work, you're doing fantastic things for the religion of Islam.
I can relate to soo much of what he said as someone who adheres to the salafi manhaj i also adhere to the shafi'i madhab and i remember as I was teaching safinat an-naja i had a female student ask me " why are you only teaching the shafi'i madhab"? after I explained to her this is madhab I follow she and some other students left without saying excuse us and made it out as if I was doing a munkar
May Allah bless you brother I reverted over 2 years ago and you plus a couple others in speakers corner opened me up to Islam man. I can see the sincerity and honesty bro. They are going to try and break this video down and cut it up and misrepresent you agian bro but trust me There are brothers who see straight through their tactics bro . May Allah bless you bro even though we all make big time mistakes
I had a friend who was a hardcore madkhali.. after studying in medina he came back and he was telling me that he was wrong about madkhali and that this path was wrong.
I come from a Hanafi background who grew up with classmates and teachers who were pseudo”Salafis”. I was a mere observer who didn’t join them but listened to them to learn what they say. Some of the things they said could be applied to some fringes of society but they were wrongly tying it to Taqleed of the 4 Imams of Madhahib and calling every deviant person a Muqallid and then all the Muqallideen as Mubtade. I didn’t antagonize these pseudo”Salafi” movements until they started to work against the mainstream Muslims and even sided with secularists against the Muslims. That’s when I understood this movement is a cancer for our Ummah. May Allah heal us all.
Islam is a very simple religion. There is a lot of arrogance with people who love to make tekfir over small difference of opinion. I belive in a merciful God, who made the true religion so simple that even an uneducated villager in 12th century will understand its message.
My bro, thank you for having the courage to openly being so honest about your journey. Life is a journey and we learn/transform/grow. A lot of scholars of past changed their opinions on things throughout their life. Maybe its openings from Allah, maybe Allah gives the Hikmah and maturation for man to see things as they are for their steadfastness on sincerity. I personally see so many so called wahhabi/salafi scholars coming to a realisation that classical islam is the most balanced way. Allah guide us all. Love. From your brother in Islam.
MashAllah . Inshallah others can save themselves from the najdi trap you almost fell into. I too noticed how they are the biggest perpetrators of everything they accuse others off. Alhamdulillah every madhab has 1200 years plus of scholarship were mistakes have been ironed out and proofs collected. Yet they tell us not to blind follow and take hold of words of ibn taymiyyah, MIAW and the 3 recent ones like their words are wahi. One even told me Albaani is superior to imam Abu hanifa (ra).
May Allah make it easy for you brother. I also went through a very similar journey where the salafi movement or at least what they brand themselves as, is what i gravitated towards at first but i only became more confused as i got deeper in that rabit hole and now I feel much more ease at heart and mentally calm by just following a madhab because I know i am relying on a thousand year worth of scholarship instead of ambiguous hadiths which can't be applied or is very difficult to apply to contemporary problems by myself or by the salafi methodology.
I've lived in Birmingham for 17 years. I can relate to this. It's a big relief somebody is talking about this. JazakumAllahu Khayran Ya akhi Kareem. May Allah SWT preserve you. Upload this on your main channel, please
Being open to all sunni works, opens your mind and allows you to appreciate diversity and realise difference of opinions are a mercy since muftis can switch between them upon necessity
Subhanallah this is what I always thought about Salafis. How ironic is that they say they do not do Taqleed but in fact they are the biggest Muqalids around
As for people, the wheel of time will fold them, and their remembrance will not remain.. The truth will not be blamed for the mistakes of some people, rather the truth will remain apparent and clear, and an argument against those who turned away from it and knew it regardless of their excuses.
Asalaamu'alaikum. Great to hear your viewpoint. I follow the Ashari school of thought but respect Athari and Maturidi madhabs. You are spot on. Nowadays blind following in creed or in a particular scholar is incorrect. I love you brother. You are doing great works. Would be great to see you do a podcast with Shaykh Asrar Rashid
I think so many people can relate to this. Quite sad we still have those issues i remember like the beginning of 2000's the uprise of those cults and it look like they did not change a bit i additute.
ALHAMDULILLAH, Br.Hijab you have literally described my journey, sticking to a madhab gives you so much clarity and keeps you away from sectarianism, Alhamdulillah almost 6 months free from this pseudo salafism
What you highlighted in your journey is adab al Iktilaaf(etiquettes to differences of opinions). Alhamdulilah the madhab followers are usually taught to respect each other and to know we are upon the truth, with possibility of being incorrect and the other madhab being correct instead. Many salafis lack respect for valid differences of opinions
I am from Jordan and I grew with the salafi school I agree completely with you. We have two common salafi schools one follows Alabani without questioning and the other is more moderate.
Been there brother.. I totally agree with you.. they always stress that they are the only ppl follow the SUNA and Hadith, but never crossed their minds where other scholars got their opinion from .. may Allah guide us all ..
Woooow. MashaAllah at that time the only person I used ot listen to, I remember was amro khalid ... lol what a difference hehe. He was and still is an amaaazing man. Love this man and my memories with his lessons. May he be blessed.
Brothers and sisters learn from watching your journey. I don't mean just this video explaining your journey, I mean your progression of thought over time. It's a great khidmah for the ummah. Allahumma barik
this was a great video akhi please do not think all atharis are like this, as an athari myself majority of the things you said he was correct, the world is way bigger then these scholars though they are good in their own right, but there are way more scholars who are way greater.
Alhumdulillah 10 years as a convert and I have gone through the same thing. I confront this in my recent video. Unfortunately at a point in my spirituality I wanted to be even more practicing and started researching niqab and this brought me to a Salafi thought. I found myself being very arrogant and harsh towards other Muslims despite my intentions being good to spread truth. Alhumdulillah 5 years ago a sister opened me up to mathaheb. I've been studying them ever since...I leaned towards Shafi until i studied Hanbali and now I emotionally and mentally feel like I'm in such a better place. I don't follow madheb 100% but I do my best to understand and learn. Too many Muslims sisters have told me of their disheartening experiences with Salafi sisters or Musjids. At the time I felt Salafiyyah gave me a lot of clarity as well but as the years went on I realized it just made me a bit closed off and less knowledgeable to be honest. I kept mentioning teachers I was learning from or benefited from to my female teacher or salafi sisters and evertime they would say, no they have a refutation against them....before I knew it every person I learned from outside of your Uthaymeen, Bin Baz ect was refuted and I couldn't learn from any of them anymore. The suggestion was...learn Arabic because all the English teachers have been refuted. I was so turned off....I do follow Athari agueedah and it's what I believe to be the truth alhumdulillah but it's a shame that it's automatically connected to salafiyyah. Their is a sheik here yu should invite him on the channel from the channel at Al Madrasa Al Hanbaliyyah, Shaikh Muwaffaq Al Din Yusuf bin Sadiq al Hanbali.
May Allah preserve Mohammad Hijab. He makes a lot of sense, the opinions of contemporary scholars of Saudi Arabia hold more weight to the Pseudo-Salafis than the actual Salaf. They only accept khilaaf between their own scholars. They can call every one else deviants but their scholars cannot be critiqued.
salam brother Mohammed, i totally agree with you. thank you a lot to bring out these facts. it is true that todays salafi is much more politically motivated than actual salafs teaching of Quran and Sunnah. they create more confusion in the minds of young muslims. May Allah keep us steadfast on the seerat al mustaqim... amin
After being in different religious movements for past 30 years, I have come to a conclusion that The people on Haq are those who are critical of themselves And the people on Dhalala are those who are critical of others It is as simple as that....find people who are self critical and self correcting
-Salafis say to follow the understanding of the salaf and follows the understanding of MIAW on certain ayahs and ahadith which contradicts with the understanding of the bulk of the Ummah. -Salafis says X is the rajih opinion over Y. Rajih according to whom? Ofc, According to Bin Baz/Ibn Uthaymeen/Albani. But the Y may be Rajih according to the madhahib. So they should learn to complete the sentence by saying "X is rajih according to Albani/Ibn Baz etc" -Salafs - Tabi'een learnt from Sahaba, Next generation learnt from Tabi'een, they had sanad which goes back to Prophet Pbuh. But Salafis just go and read books, and in the understanding of tawheed what sanad they have?(coz MIAW said his Shuyookh don't know the true meaning of Kalima) -Salafs used to consult the most knowledgable one among them to ask verdict, Even laymen salafis will pass verdict like X is deviant Y is kafir etc. Not the manhaj of Salaf.(eg: When Qadris emerged, scholars of the tabi'een went to Ibn Umar R.A. to seek the opinion etc) -Salafs were against splitting from jama'ah. But salafis splitted the jama'ah by applying the ayahs which revealed over mushriks on muslims and by takfeering them, and claimed the Ottoman khilafah were kuffar etc. Also, Salafis splitting from their sunni Muslim neighborhood becoz they are Ash'aris, sufis and madhab muqallids etc.
I'm a born Salafi from India though I dont carry this title. I only call myself a muslim, but I never came across any Salafi imam who follows any scholar blindly. Even one of the imams I met said Shaikh Albani made a mistake about some issue. Salafis dont even have a problem with people who only call themselves muslim. They just get too furious when they see shirk and bidah which are very common in my country.
I thought just ppl of subcontinent are against the understanding of hardline salafism but alhamdulillah nice to see ppl in west, Africa, Egypt, Syria and indo, Malay, and even Arabs against them.
As ashari grown in uk who believes ahlu al sunna aqeedah creeds are ahlu al athr, maturidies, ashariates, which all have done their best to commit to the truth and differentiated at ijtihadi topics and people can be part of any as long as they are not doing tabdee and takfeer of the other, I would really like to thank you Mohammed for all the work you done and doing.
Subhannalah wallahi you hit the nail on the head akhi. Even through the learning process for many students of knowledge in the salafiyyah way, it’s drilled into their head from a young age that only certain scholars such as Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Qayyim, Ibn Abdulwahab, Ibn Uthaymeen, Ibn Baz and Albani are more credible than many of the great scholars of Islam. I actually had a teacher of mine once tell me not to take any knowledge from Imam Ghazzali as he wasn’t reliable subhannalah. The more and more research and learning I did, I realised the roots of the movement are steeped in controversy and political intrigue.
I echo these exact sentiments. I call myself a hanbali/Athari/Salafi, but I'm definitely not a Fawzani, Albani, Uthaymini, Wahhabi. I dearly love and respect those 'Ulamā, but i do not blindly follow them. Whilst I agree with alot of their opinions on certian issues, it would be ridiculously hypocritical to call myself a salafi if i treat them like they are ma'soom. It's a shame that these new groups that do so have hijacked the salafi term, but I call for the reclamation of it.
I think Mohammed Hijab summed it up in the best version of my life, believe me I've heard and observed many things. Beautifully said, I hope this video goes viral, I'm very sure you will get a lot of flack after this video, but I regard you as a rock even though in reality you are a gentle giant. May Allah keep you strong and firm
This is why you should do Taqleed of 1400 years worth of research and not taqleed of salafism which only came about recently. People are dumb if they think the Ummah was wrong for 1400 years and we suddenly have woken up and we will tell you what is right..hence important to stick to your routes. Follow one mathhab and don't mix and match. Simple. You won't go wrong. If you start following million opinions you will go million miles in a million directions so cannot mix and match and pick and choose what you find easier.
Salaam Mohammed Hijab at the end of day shouldn't we go back to basics? As we all agree the 4 madhabs are all correct so we should just pick a madhab and carry on all these new sects that came after clearly are innovations! thank you for The great work you have been doing especially the amazing interview with Andrew Tate Kind regards
My experience with salafi brothers is that they are good brothers but they are so focused on calling out muslims within the ummah instead of giving Dawah to non muslims
Alhamdulilah, when i first started my journey with trying to learn about Islam, i too got dragged into the salafiyah movement, since ofc it made sense in Aqida, and the concept of taking whats better and leaving whats not from medhhabs, but Alhamdulilah i had my uncle who like brother Hijab has passed the same foot steps, kept trying to convince me that the salafiyah movement is good, until you start thinking that some matters are as black and white, or that you and sheikh Albani are right and no one else is. But the truth is, you brother Hijab and my uncle, were right all along. For you it was Ibn Taymmiyah who changed your world view on some stuff, for me it was Al Ghazali, where i started to ask people what they think of him, and immediately started saying that he is missguided, when Ibn Taymmiyah himself calls him "the great Sheikh" and many other words of endearment,
When someone asks you "Are you a salafi?" Just say: what do you mean by "Are" what do you mean by "you" what do you mean by "a", and what do you mean by "salafi"? Lol
I made the same mistake of following this Najdi or Saud family version of islam. Everything everyone does is haram and kufr until their father Prince MBS does it, then it becomes sunnah
Alhamdulillah. Our brother speaks the truth. For some people a little knowledge can lead to kibr. It is all a test for us. The sahaba hardly were found inspecting others, they were always judging themselves. Looking at the dawah channels by far the biggest objection and roadblock to Islam are the Muslims. Our bad actions have made others shy away from Islam. So we need to both engage in dawah and reform ourselves at the same time.
Honestly, any group that does ghuloo should be avoided. Just stay true to the deen. Some salafis do ghuloo and disrespect older scholars. Some people put to much stock in their scholars. We have to find a middle path. May Allah make it easy on us. Ameen
I don’t know who the salafi or wahabi is but I know Qur’an and the Sunnah of Prophet ﷺ and Rashidun Caliphs is enough to follow. You can learn fiqh from one of the well known scholars may Allah reward them with Jannah ,like Abu Hanifa , Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal ,Imam Shafii ,Imam Malik , learn Hadith from Imam Bukhari, Tirmidhi,Imam Muslim . You should learn tawheed from by understanding Asma’ul Husna, avoid Bid’ah . And most importantly learn from a scholar who exactly gives you the knowledge of ahli Sunnah wal Jamaa., Like , Uthman al Khamis , Muhammad Hablos,Dr Zakir Naik, Sheikh Mostafa Adawi .
الحق أبلج ....والباطل لجلج There is a reason for diversity of opinions and that's to create ease for the ummah that will expand all around the world and last til the day of judgement.
Bro Hijab. I would like to request you to put English subtitles, only for this video. I like your explanation, but only can understand halfway of it, and I believe there are still many people like me who can't understand thoroughly of the discussion. May Allah bless you and Ali Dawah...
You are the best to judge between these groups. I studied in Cairo 20 years and I agree..no holy figures..I escaped from the Vatican with its orthodox proclamations when I entered Islam. Actually, Vatican resembles the Shia with the notion that pope/ Grand ayatollah is gods word on earth.
That's the main problem these neo salman kids have, on one hand they'll do debates of Imam abu hanifa wasn't much qualified to pronounce or give any futwa so we shouldn't do any taqleed , on contrary they'll quote albani or ibni tamiyah or those people who are from their sect only 🤦♂
The isbaal mas'alah from the hadith which mentions that any part of a izar that goes below the ankle is in the hell fire is a good example as this is the opinion made by contemporary scholars of our time (Albani, bin baaz, Uthaymeen r.a.) is that izaar means all types of clothing (sirwaal, jeans, bantalun etc.) which if you research all the scholars of the former mazhaahib they did not hold this opinion. They held the opinion that the problem is dragging your garment (other than a izar) with pride. Today salafiya (SPUBS), any clothes you wear need to be above the ankle wether for pride or not
Guys seriously, take it from someone who went through all this toxicity just like brother' hijab here. I saw the evil and toxicity of this group and alhamdulillah left it before it was too late. Really guys, take from the 4 schools of thoughts. You can't go wrong with it. All 4 of them are agreed upon with centuries of excellent scholarship involved. Just grab a madhab that's more common in your land in the issues of fiqh ..and keep calling yourself muslims. Straight and simple.
"Its easiest to differentiate the black (non-muslim attackers) & the white. But its Hardest to distinguish the Gray within the shades of white" -sort of prolly Hello sir Hijab, my community & i here in SEAsia have been particularly facing this issue for years too, by intention/choice I pray all of us Be strong & keeping the sabr, asking Allah for His best guidance and preserving our humility, as also being always coolHeaded to mitigate, learning & maneuvering oursevles towards this issue
As salamu alaikom Brother hijab idk if you‘ll see this but as an athari i totally agree with you on most of this and totally disassociate myself from these self described „salafi“ madkhali hizbis i just hope you don‘t let this determine your creedal views on the masā‘il you mentionee جزاك اللهُ خيراً
I relate to this wallahi. The world is bigger than most pseudo salafis think it is. I am still an athari in aqeedah alhamdulillah but I don’t like most “Salafi”’s approach
There's many disputes between Salafis and Sunnis here in indonesia. Most muslim here celebrates the birth of prophet Muhammad (Salallahi Alayhi Wassalam) by doing dhikr, praying in the mosque etc. We thanked Allah for bringing prophet Muhammad to this world. "Bid'ah!" said the salafis and wahabis. When someone dies in indonesia, there's something called "Tahlilan." It may just a tradition here, but every family members, friends, neighbor, even random passerby comes the family to comfort them, prays with them, reading the quran with them and ask Allah to forgive the deceased. "Bid'ah!" said the Salafis and Wahabis. Since when did praying becomes bid'ah
19:13 “I don’t care about the SECTS. For me it’s about the TRUTH” 💯 This is why I respect Muhammad Hijab and the few others who have this mentality. I’m so glad he came out with this video because this is the correct mindset that we all should have. When I reverted I started off as a Sufi. But now I understand that there is a balance between the Taqleed of the Sufi’s and the Taqleed of the Salafi’s. That balance is to simply learn the truth and apply it. Period.
💯 . That's why I like him too. I am aware that he makes a few mistakes but I also know that he's sincere and strives to better himself. May Allah guide us all to the right path. Ameen.
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Wallahi as a young man growing up in the UK, Mohammed Hijab has helped me more than anyone in learning more about my deen. When I've been convinced by various sectarian groups his videos always bring me back to the middle ground. He makes mistakes and corrects himself as he learns, unlike the cultish behaviour we see from others. Nothing but respect, admiration and gratitude. May Allah swt bless you in the dunyah and akhira, ameen
I can't believe you're only 31. May Allah bless your rest of life on earth. Aameen.
Alhumdulillah I have not said “I am Salafi” ever since returning from my studies in Yemen 15 years ago. I’m so free and happy Alhumdulillah
The journey of every ex-Salafi. Mine too. Was filled with sectarianism, ego, jealousy and feeling superior and looking down upon other people and scholars
I am 70 years old, and have watched our religion here in America go from something very unknown to now something phobic. The religion is simple but the people in our religion complicate it in many ways and many times. Stick to the roots of the religion and please don't complicate it. Allah SWT knows best but I think he wants to make it easy on us, yet we are always complicating it and arguing sometimes with and without knowledge. Please be respectful of each other as an example for our brethren and those considering Islam. Love you all for the sake of Allah SWT.
When I first started practicing Islam, my brother who is a strict Salafi-Madkhali, almost made me give up on Islam wallahi. Alhamdulillah once I left these Madkhali mindset, I started feel better and started to love Islam with my heart. I totally agree with brother Mohammad and I‘m glad that he’s pointing out these things.
Pure gold from start to finish.. May Allah bless you brother Hijab
My Personal Journey with Salafiyaah and how/why I left (perhaps you can relate
subhanAllah, i want so badly to call myself salafi but this is EXACTLY why i hesitate and don’t, literally feel the exact same way, very well said Allahumma Barik
Wallahi me and him went through a similar experience. Traditional Muslims NEED to get on the social media dawah game of these salafis so people don’t keep falling into these toxic paths
Jazakallahu Khairan Brother Hijab. You really highlighted the Crux of the issue that not all but a significant portion of this so called 'Salafi' Movement has. They claim to have a desire or want to go back to the Salaf, the pious predecessors, yet their actions are ironically in direct contrast to their claims when they make their scholars infallible and anyone that disagrees with even a single opinion of their Sheikh is automatically considered a deviant by them. Whereas in the Muslim Ummah and even amongst the salafs disagreements have happened yet they remained fairly united and cordial towards each other and respected each other's opinions.
Same goes for their view on Taqleed, the criticize other for doing it yet they are the staunchest Muqliads around in reality, only changing the scholars they do Taqleed of.
May Allah guide all of us and unite us for his sake. May Allah make them understand that not everyone that disagrees with them is a deviant and let them understand that Islamic history and knowledge and literature is much more vast and diverse as opposed to what they take it as.
Man, I relate to this soo much. It was never the main idea to follow the Qur’an and Sunnah and Salaf that was an issue. It was the arrogance, sectarianism, double standards, and allegiances which were were a huge turn off for me.
It‘s just really frustrating because they’ll just brush you off as someone who does not like the way of the Salaf as if the way of the Salaf entails that garbage behavior.
I always thought “salafism” as weird because to disparage 1000+ years of incredible, diverse classical Islamic scholarship for a small band of modern scholars is absolutely ridiculous
I am an "athari" as well but I LOVE the mathab traditions ...few things are as exciting as fiqhi differences across the mathabs. So it really puzzles me why someone would want to abandon our rich mathab heritage.
Allah has put love for you in my heart. May Allah always guide you and keep you on guidance.
"Indeed, those who believe and do righteous deeds - the Most Merciful will appoint for them love."
---[Qur'an , Surah Maryam , Ayah 96]
I can totally relate to this. I used to be proud of being a "Salafi" for their pure Aqeedah but now after I have seen the dark side of these movements which has little to do with the Salaf but a lot more to do with their brand of Salafism, I no longer associate myself with this term. I'm a Muslim first and foremost Alhamdulillah.
Finally you explained your stances in a way that I completely agree with you and to be honest I was feeling the same lately. Hope you’ll post this on your main channel. I like your akhlaaq in this video as well.
May Allah guide you and continue to guide you and guide me and the whole ummah 🤲🏽
You've just crushed it man, I cannot agree more with everything you have said. Great video, keep up the good work, you're doing fantastic things for the religion of Islam.
I remember the website of bin Baz, where the majority of Sunni Muslims were labelled as innovators. And of course, the saudi 'scholars' were correct.
I can relate to soo much of what he said as someone who adheres to the salafi manhaj i also adhere to the shafi'i madhab and i remember as I was teaching safinat an-naja i had a female student ask me " why are you only teaching the shafi'i madhab"? after I explained to her this is madhab I follow she and some other students left without saying excuse us and made it out as if I was doing a munkar
This was eye opening, I think you just catched me before I jumped into these patterns of thinking. Thank you Mr. Hijab.
Wallahi this video is really illuminating. JazakumAllah khair. It should be on his main channel.
As a Maliki its always nice to listen to br. Hijab.
May Allah bless you brother I reverted over 2 years ago and you plus a couple others in speakers corner opened me up to Islam man. I can see the sincerity and honesty bro. They are going to try and break this video down and cut it up and misrepresent you agian bro but trust me There are brothers who see straight through their tactics bro . May Allah bless you bro even though we all make big time mistakes
Living the life of confusion, seeing and listening to you today gave me hope today, , , ❤️
I had a friend who was a hardcore madkhali.. after studying in medina he came back and he was telling me that he was wrong about madkhali and that this path was wrong.
According to you guys anyone who doesn't openly attacks rulers or make takfir is a so called madkali....insulting a scholar by doing so
The madkhali not real salafia
Salafia's people not hardcore and don't takfer other religion people like madkhali
I come from a Hanafi background who grew up with classmates and teachers who were pseudo”Salafis”. I was a mere observer who didn’t join them but listened to them to learn what they say. Some of the things they said could be applied to some fringes of society but they were wrongly tying it to Taqleed of the 4 Imams of Madhahib and calling every deviant person a Muqallid and then all the Muqallideen as Mubtade.
I didn’t antagonize these pseudo”Salafi” movements until they started to work against the mainstream Muslims and even sided with secularists against the Muslims.
That’s when I understood this movement is a cancer for our Ummah. May Allah heal us all.
Islam is a very simple religion. There is a lot of arrogance with people who love to make tekfir over small difference of opinion. I belive in a merciful God, who made the true religion so simple that even an uneducated villager in 12th century will understand its message.
My bro, thank you for having the courage to openly being so honest about your journey. Life is a journey and we learn/transform/grow. A lot of scholars of past changed their opinions on things throughout their life. Maybe its openings from Allah, maybe Allah gives the Hikmah and maturation for man to see things as they are for their steadfastness on sincerity.
I personally see so many so called wahhabi/salafi scholars coming to a realisation that classical islam is the most balanced way.
Allah guide us all.
Love. From your brother in Islam.
MashAllah . Inshallah others can save themselves from the najdi trap you almost fell into. I too noticed how they are the biggest perpetrators of everything they accuse others off. Alhamdulillah every madhab has 1200 years plus of scholarship were mistakes have been ironed out and proofs collected. Yet they tell us not to blind follow and take hold of words of ibn taymiyyah, MIAW and the 3 recent ones like their words are wahi. One even told me Albaani is superior to imam Abu hanifa (ra).
May Allah make it easy for you brother. I also went through a very similar journey where the salafi movement or at least what they brand themselves as, is what i gravitated towards at first but i only became more confused as i got deeper in that rabit hole and now I feel much more ease at heart and mentally calm by just following a madhab because I know i am relying on a thousand year worth of scholarship instead of ambiguous hadiths which can't be applied or is very difficult to apply to contemporary problems by myself or by the salafi methodology.
Congratulation to you bro. Indonesian muslim here. Salafi wahabi have become a problem here till now.
They make frictions within ummah
I've lived in Birmingham for 17 years. I can relate to this. It's a big relief somebody is talking about this. JazakumAllahu Khayran Ya akhi Kareem. May Allah SWT preserve you. Upload this on your main channel, please
Being open to all sunni works, opens your mind and allows you to appreciate diversity and realise difference of opinions are a mercy since muftis can switch between them upon necessity
I used to follow salafism but after discovering the truth about it, I Left it for good.
Subhanallah this is what I always thought about Salafis. How ironic is that they say they do not do Taqleed but in fact they are the biggest Muqalids around
بارك الله فيك اخي محمد، في الاردن عانينيا من هذا الامر، بعض ممن ينتسبون للسلف عندهم تعصب للعلماء اللذين ذكرتهم و لا يقبلون اي نقد.
As for people, the wheel of time will fold them, and their remembrance will not remain.. The truth will not be blamed for the mistakes of some people, rather the truth will remain apparent and clear, and an argument against those who turned away from it and knew it regardless of their excuses.
Asalaamu'alaikum. Great to hear your viewpoint. I follow the Ashari school of thought but respect Athari and Maturidi madhabs. You are spot on. Nowadays blind following in creed or in a particular scholar is incorrect. I love you brother. You are doing great works. Would be great to see you do a podcast with Shaykh Asrar Rashid
I think so many people can relate to this. Quite sad we still have those issues i remember like the beginning of 2000's the uprise of those cults and it look like they did not change a bit i additute.
"كل يؤخذ من كلامه ويرد عليه الا صاحب هذا القبر" الامام مالك
MashAllah, I needed to hear this brother Hijab. May Allah reward you.
ALHAMDULILLAH, Br.Hijab you have literally described my journey, sticking to a madhab gives you so much clarity and keeps you away from sectarianism, Alhamdulillah almost 6 months free from this pseudo salafism
What you highlighted in your journey is adab al Iktilaaf(etiquettes to differences of opinions). Alhamdulilah the madhab followers are usually taught to respect each other and to know we are upon the truth, with possibility of being incorrect and the other madhab being correct instead.
Many salafis lack respect for valid differences of opinions
I am from Jordan and I grew with the salafi school I agree completely with you. We have two common salafi schools one follows Alabani without questioning and the other is more moderate.
Been there brother.. I totally agree with you.. they always stress that they are the only ppl follow the SUNA and Hadith, but never crossed their minds where other scholars got their opinion from .. may Allah guide us all ..
Woooow. MashaAllah at that time the only person I used ot listen to, I remember was amro khalid ... lol what a difference hehe. He was and still is an amaaazing man. Love this man and my memories with his lessons. May he be blessed.
Brothers and sisters learn from watching your journey. I don't mean just this video explaining your journey, I mean your progression of thought over time. It's a great khidmah for the ummah. Allahumma barik
this was a great video akhi please do not think all atharis are like this, as an athari myself majority of the things you said he was correct, the world is way bigger then these scholars though they are good in their own right, but there are way more scholars who are way greater.
Jazakallah for clearing up this delicate topic .❤
Alhumdulillah 10 years as a convert and I have gone through the same thing. I confront this in my recent video. Unfortunately at a point in my spirituality I wanted to be even more practicing and started researching niqab and this brought me to a Salafi thought. I found myself being very arrogant and harsh towards other Muslims despite my intentions being good to spread truth. Alhumdulillah 5 years ago a sister opened me up to mathaheb. I've been studying them ever since...I leaned towards Shafi until i studied Hanbali and now I emotionally and mentally feel like I'm in such a better place. I don't follow madheb 100% but I do my best to understand and learn. Too many Muslims sisters have told me of their disheartening experiences with Salafi sisters or Musjids. At the time I felt Salafiyyah gave me a lot of clarity as well but as the years went on I realized it just made me a bit closed off and less knowledgeable to be honest. I kept mentioning teachers I was learning from or benefited from to my female teacher or salafi sisters and evertime they would say, no they have a refutation against them....before I knew it every person I learned from outside of your Uthaymeen, Bin Baz ect was refuted and I couldn't learn from any of them anymore. The suggestion was...learn Arabic because all the English teachers have been refuted. I was so turned off....I do follow Athari agueedah and it's what I believe to be the truth alhumdulillah but it's a shame that it's automatically connected to salafiyyah. Their is a sheik here yu should invite him on the channel from the channel at Al Madrasa Al Hanbaliyyah, Shaikh Muwaffaq Al Din Yusuf bin Sadiq al Hanbali.
ما شاء الله تبارك الله
Agree with all your points brother. Following a madhab makes life easier.
May Allah preserve Mohammad Hijab. He makes a lot of sense, the opinions of contemporary scholars of Saudi Arabia hold more weight to the Pseudo-Salafis than the actual Salaf. They only accept khilaaf between their own scholars. They can call every one else deviants but their scholars cannot be critiqued.
salam brother Mohammed, i totally agree with you. thank you a lot to bring out these facts. it is true that todays salafi is much more politically motivated than actual salafs teaching of Quran and Sunnah. they create more confusion in the minds of young muslims. May Allah keep us steadfast on the seerat al mustaqim... amin
Completely agree and gone through a little. JazakhAllah khair for aharing your precious experience.
After being in different religious movements for past 30 years, I have come to a conclusion that
The people on Haq are those who are critical of themselves
And the people on Dhalala are those who are critical of others
It is as simple as that....find people who are self critical and self correcting
-Salafis say to follow the understanding of the salaf and follows the understanding of MIAW on certain ayahs and ahadith which contradicts with the understanding of the bulk of the Ummah.
-Salafis says X is the rajih opinion over Y.
Rajih according to whom? Ofc, According to Bin Baz/Ibn Uthaymeen/Albani. But the Y may be Rajih according to the madhahib. So they should learn to complete the sentence by saying "X is rajih according to Albani/Ibn Baz etc"
-Salafs - Tabi'een learnt from Sahaba, Next generation learnt from Tabi'een, they had sanad which goes back to Prophet Pbuh. But Salafis just go and read books, and in the understanding of tawheed what sanad they have?(coz MIAW said his Shuyookh don't know the true meaning of Kalima)
-Salafs used to consult the most knowledgable one among them to ask verdict, Even laymen salafis will pass verdict like X is deviant Y is kafir etc. Not the manhaj of Salaf.(eg: When Qadris emerged, scholars of the tabi'een went to Ibn Umar R.A. to seek the opinion etc)
-Salafs were against splitting from jama'ah. But salafis splitted the jama'ah by applying the ayahs which revealed over mushriks on muslims and by takfeering them, and claimed the Ottoman khilafah were kuffar etc.
Also, Salafis splitting from their sunni Muslim neighborhood becoz they are Ash'aris, sufis and madhab muqallids etc.
I'm a born Salafi from India though I dont carry this title. I only call myself a muslim, but I never came across any Salafi imam who follows any scholar blindly. Even one of the imams I met said Shaikh Albani made a mistake about some issue. Salafis dont even have a problem with people who only call themselves muslim. They just get too furious when they see shirk and bidah which are very common in my country.
Respect from algeria brother well said 🔥🔥🔥
Wallahy, Mohammed Hijab has helped me more than anyone in learning more about my deen
I thought just ppl of subcontinent are against the understanding of hardline salafism but alhamdulillah nice to see ppl in west, Africa, Egypt, Syria and indo, Malay, and even Arabs against them.
Salafism is different from extreme salafism and madkhalism. Salafi is a follower of the way to salaf Which is a fundamental thing in islam.
As ashari grown in uk who believes ahlu al sunna aqeedah creeds are ahlu al athr, maturidies, ashariates, which all have done their best to commit to the truth and differentiated at ijtihadi topics and people can be part of any as long as they are not doing tabdee and takfeer of the other, I would really like to thank you Mohammed for all the work you done and doing.
Subhannalah wallahi you hit the nail on the head akhi.
Even through the learning process for many students of knowledge in the salafiyyah way, it’s drilled into their head from a young age that only certain scholars such as Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Qayyim, Ibn Abdulwahab, Ibn Uthaymeen, Ibn Baz and Albani are more credible than many of the great scholars of Islam. I actually had a teacher of mine once tell me not to take any knowledge from Imam Ghazzali as he wasn’t reliable subhannalah.
The more and more research and learning I did, I realised the roots of the movement are steeped in controversy and political intrigue.
I echo these exact sentiments.
I call myself a hanbali/Athari/Salafi, but I'm definitely not a Fawzani, Albani, Uthaymini, Wahhabi.
I dearly love and respect those 'Ulamā, but i do not blindly follow them.
Whilst I agree with alot of their opinions on certian issues, it would be ridiculously hypocritical to call myself a salafi if i treat them like they are ma'soom.
It's a shame that these new groups that do so have hijacked the salafi term, but I call for the reclamation of it.
I think Mohammed Hijab summed it up in the best version of my life, believe me I've heard and observed many things. Beautifully said, I hope this video goes viral, I'm very sure you will get a lot of flack after this video, but I regard you as a rock even though in reality you are a gentle giant.
May Allah keep you strong and firm
This is why you should do Taqleed of 1400 years worth of research and not taqleed of salafism which only came about recently. People are dumb if they think the Ummah was wrong for 1400 years and we suddenly have woken up and we will tell you what is right..hence important to stick to your routes. Follow one mathhab and don't mix and match. Simple. You won't go wrong. If you start following million opinions you will go million miles in a million directions so cannot mix and match and pick and choose what you find easier.
I’ve learned a lot from hijab may Allah bless this brother
Salaam Mohammed Hijab at the end of day shouldn't we go back to basics? As we all agree the 4 madhabs are all correct so we should just pick a madhab and carry on all these new sects that came after clearly are innovations! thank you for The great work you have been doing especially the amazing interview with Andrew Tate
Kind regards
Sad to say but you are spot on my brother
My experience with salafi brothers is that they are good brothers but they are so focused on calling out muslims within the ummah instead of giving Dawah to non muslims
Alhamdulilah, when i first started my journey with trying to learn about Islam, i too got dragged into the salafiyah movement, since ofc it made sense in Aqida, and the concept of taking whats better and leaving whats not from medhhabs, but Alhamdulilah i had my uncle who like brother Hijab has passed the same foot steps, kept trying to convince me that the salafiyah movement is good, until you start thinking that some matters are as black and white, or that you and sheikh Albani are right and no one else is. But the truth is, you brother Hijab and my uncle, were right all along.
For you it was Ibn Taymmiyah who changed your world view on some stuff, for me it was Al Ghazali, where i started to ask people what they think of him, and immediately started saying that he is missguided, when Ibn Taymmiyah himself calls him "the great Sheikh" and many other words of endearment,
When someone asks you "Are you a salafi?" Just say: what do you mean by "Are" what do you mean by "you" what do you mean by "a", and what do you mean by "salafi"? Lol
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I made the same mistake of following this Najdi or Saud family version of islam. Everything everyone does is haram and kufr until their father Prince MBS does it, then it becomes sunnah
I really appreciate these introspective videos from you. May Allah swt keep you happy akhi and grant you afiyah
Alhamdulillah. Our brother speaks the truth. For some people a little knowledge can lead to kibr. It is all a test for us.
The sahaba hardly were found inspecting others, they were always judging themselves. Looking at the dawah channels by far the biggest objection and roadblock to Islam are the Muslims. Our bad actions have made others shy away from Islam. So we need to both engage in dawah and reform ourselves at the same time.
A lot of introspective salafis feel the same way actually. Me included
Honestly, any group that does ghuloo should be avoided. Just stay true to the deen. Some salafis do ghuloo and disrespect older scholars. Some people put to much stock in their scholars. We have to find a middle path. May Allah make it easy on us. Ameen
I don’t know who the salafi or wahabi is but I know Qur’an and the Sunnah of Prophet ﷺ and Rashidun Caliphs is enough to follow. You can learn fiqh from one of the well known scholars may Allah reward them with Jannah ,like Abu Hanifa , Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal ,Imam Shafii ,Imam Malik , learn Hadith from Imam Bukhari, Tirmidhi,Imam Muslim . You should learn tawheed from by understanding Asma’ul Husna, avoid Bid’ah . And most importantly learn from a scholar who exactly gives you the knowledge of ahli Sunnah wal Jamaa., Like , Uthman al Khamis , Muhammad Hablos,Dr Zakir Naik, Sheikh Mostafa Adawi .
I am Hanafi in Fiqh I also consider Ulama of Deoband as my Akabreen and all the salaf, not this pseudo-Salafis and I love you brother
الحق أبلج ....والباطل لجلج
There is a reason for diversity of opinions and that's to create ease for the ummah that will expand all around the world and last til the day of judgement.
Bro Hijab. I would like to request you to put English subtitles, only for this video. I like your explanation, but only can understand halfway of it, and I believe there are still many people like me who can't understand thoroughly of the discussion. May Allah bless you and Ali Dawah...
You are the best to judge between these groups. I studied in Cairo 20 years and I agree..no holy figures..I escaped from the Vatican with its orthodox proclamations when I entered Islam. Actually, Vatican resembles the Shia with the notion that pope/ Grand ayatollah is gods word on earth.
Yasir Qadhi describes a similar experiance in his video. In all honesty It would be great to see yourself and Sheikh Asrar Rashid in discussion.
That's the main problem these neo salman kids have, on one hand they'll do debates of Imam abu hanifa wasn't much qualified to pronounce or give any futwa so we shouldn't do any taqleed , on contrary they'll quote albani or ibni tamiyah or those people who are from their sect only 🤦♂
The isbaal mas'alah from the hadith which mentions that any part of a izar that goes below the ankle is in the hell fire is a good example as this is the opinion made by contemporary scholars of our time (Albani, bin baaz, Uthaymeen r.a.) is that izaar means all types of clothing (sirwaal, jeans, bantalun etc.) which if you research all the scholars of the former mazhaahib they did not hold this opinion. They held the opinion that the problem is dragging your garment (other than a izar) with pride. Today salafiya (SPUBS), any clothes you wear need to be above the ankle wether for pride or not
well done with this one bro, may Allah protect you and preserve your tongue for speaking the truth
So many people go through this toxic phase, just ruins your ibadah honestly
Guys seriously, take it from someone who went through all this toxicity just like brother' hijab here. I saw the evil and toxicity of this group and alhamdulillah left it before it was too late. Really guys, take from the 4 schools of thoughts. You can't go wrong with it. All 4 of them are agreed upon with centuries of excellent scholarship involved. Just grab a madhab that's more common in your land in the issues of fiqh ..and keep calling yourself muslims. Straight and simple.
"Its easiest to differentiate the black (non-muslim attackers) & the white. But its Hardest to distinguish the Gray within the shades of white"
-sort of prolly
Hello sir Hijab, my community & i here in SEAsia have been particularly facing this issue for years too, by intention/choice
I pray all of us Be strong & keeping the sabr, asking Allah for His best guidance and preserving our humility, as also being always coolHeaded to mitigate, learning & maneuvering oursevles towards this issue
Hijab seems to be a very sincere man who is seeking the truth.
As salamu alaikom Brother hijab idk if you‘ll see this but as an athari i totally agree with you on most of this and totally disassociate myself from these self described „salafi“ madkhali hizbis i just hope you don‘t let this determine your creedal views on the masā‘il you mentionee جزاك اللهُ خيراً
may Allah protect you from envy, the evil eye and all your enemies
I relate to this wallahi. The world is bigger than most pseudo salafis think it is. I am still an athari in aqeedah alhamdulillah but I don’t like most “Salafi”’s approach
There's many disputes between Salafis and Sunnis here in indonesia. Most muslim here celebrates the birth of prophet Muhammad (Salallahi Alayhi Wassalam) by doing dhikr, praying in the mosque etc. We thanked Allah for bringing prophet Muhammad to this world. "Bid'ah!" said the salafis and wahabis. When someone dies in indonesia, there's something called "Tahlilan." It may just a tradition here, but every family members, friends, neighbor, even random passerby comes the family to comfort them, prays with them, reading the quran with them and ask Allah to forgive the deceased. "Bid'ah!" said the Salafis and Wahabis.
Since when did praying becomes bid'ah
and that's why you should have a discussion with Muhammad El massari | محمد المسعري
We appreciate the insight and honesty
19:13 “I don’t care about the SECTS. For me it’s about the TRUTH” 💯
This is why I respect Muhammad Hijab and the few others who have this mentality.
I’m so glad he came out with this video because this is the correct mindset that we all should have.
When I reverted I started off as a Sufi. But now I understand that there is a balance between the Taqleed of the Sufi’s and the Taqleed of the Salafi’s. That balance is to simply learn the truth and apply it. Period.
💯 . That's why I like him too. I am aware that he makes a few mistakes but I also know that he's sincere and strives to better himself. May Allah guide us all to the right path. Ameen.
So much of this, I can relate with.
May Allah illuminate your heart with Noor Brother Mohammed Hijab and be pleased with you