{"id":369,"date":"2011-08-14T11:28:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T09:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imranhosein.org\/n\/?p=369"},"modified":"2024-02-07T12:29:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T12:29:05","slug":"with-regard-to-muhammad-abd-al-wahhab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/with-regard-to-muhammad-abd-al-wahhab\/","title":{"rendered":"With regard to Muhammad Abd Al Wahhab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salam maulana<\/p>\n<p>I want to ask about the wahaabi sect. I belong to sunni sect (in documents but consider myself muslim only) met some friends who belong to wahaabi sect(although they call themselves nothings but muslims) i found that they follow quran, sunnah which is verified in books of hadiths&#8230;should i follow them? bcz we sunni reject certain things claiming that hadiths in bukhari and other books are weak on no grounds&#8230;please guide as my parents brought me up simply and the knowledge of these sects came to me from surroundings as i grew older&#8230;i am worried only because what these wahabis\/ahl e hadiths says about bida&#8217;h i found it right e-g rituals related to dead,eid milad un nabi,etc etc&#8230;..and if you say that i should not follow any sect and just be same like as prophet Muhammad and sahabas were then from which source i should extract sunnah(no question rises about authenticity of quran)&#8230;..i am strongly strongly convinced that these wahabis follow a bit better path than ALL other\u00a0sects but i am also confused by your booklet THE CALIPHATE THE HEJAZ AND THE SAUDI-WAHHABI NATION-STATE and think that like shia may be these are also misguided&#8230;..please guide me may allah bless you here and here after.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nwa &#8216;alaikum assalaam!<\/p>\n<p>Although Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu &#8216;alaihi wa sallam) was rightly-guided there are many Muslims today who are misguided.\u00a0When anyone criticizes and condemns such misguided Muslims such does not reflect as criticism of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu &#8216;alaihi wa sallam).<\/p>\n<p>I have never commented in my writings (such as in my book entitled\u00a0&#8216;The Caliohate The Hajaz and the Saudi-Wahhabi Nation-State&#8217; and in my lectures on whether or not I consider Muammad Abd al-Wahhab to have been misguided. And I do not\u00a0intend to do so now!<\/p>\n<p>with love,<\/p>\n<p>Imran N. Hosein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Salam maulana I want to ask about the wahaabi sect. I belong to sunni sect (in documents but consider myself muslim only) met some friends who belong to wahaabi sect(although they call themselves nothings but muslims) i found that they follow quran, sunnah which is verified in books of hadiths&#8230;should i follow them? bcz we sunni reject certain things &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2817,"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/2817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imranhosein.org\/o\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}