[1] The Illusion of Quietism

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

From Abū Najīh al-ʿIrbāḍ bin Sāriyah (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhu) who said:

The Messenger of Allah gave us a sermon by which our hearts were filled with fear and tears came to our eyes. We said: “O Messenger of Allāh, it is as though this is a farewell sermon, so counsel us.” He said, “I counsel you to fear Allah and to give absolute obedience even if a slave becomes your leader. Verily he among you who lives [long] will see great controversy, so you must keep to my sunnah and to the sunnah of the rightly-guided Khalifahs – bite onto it with your molars. Beware of newly invented matters, for every invented matter is an innovation and every innovation is a going astray, and every going astray is in the Hell-fire.” [1]

Some pseudo researchers on Salafiyyah wrote:

“Madkhalism is a strain of Quietist thought within the larger Salafist movement based on the writings of Sheikh Rabee-al-Madkhali, characterised by monarchism and loyalty to secular authoritarian governments in the Arab world. Arab states have generally favored Madkhalism due to its support for secular forms of government as opposed to other strains of Salafism, and Madkhalism’s decline in Saudi Arabia has been connected with a decline in support for secular forms of government in the Muslim world”. [End of quote]

Response:

This classification of a strain within Salafiyyah known as Madkhalism is a ruse concocted by Salafiyyah’s sworn foes. They are unable to present concrete evidence to confront the sound Salafi methodology and its upright scholars, therefore they resort to lies, fantasy, delusions, and slander. This term was concocted by Ahlul Bidah (the Qutbiyyah, Ikhwaanees, and their ilk) to discredit a great scholar of this Ummah called Rabee Bin Haadi Al-Madkhali, may Allah have mercy upon him.

Read about this great scholar in the article compiled by Shaikh Abu Khadeejah, may Allah preserve him.

Biography of Ash-Shaykh Al-Allāmah Rabī’ Ibn Hādī Al-Madkhalī and the Praise of the Scholars for him

These sworn foes are unable to present any credible, unequivocal knowledge-based proof that Al-Allamah Rabee is guilty of initiating a single Bidah. The Shaikh challenged them as follows:

“Do you take revenge against these Salafiyyoon and nickname them with these nicknames only because they hold onto the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him? What is the bidah that the Salafiyyun have for them (i.e. the false accusers) to say Mad’khaliyyah, Jamiyyah?” [2]

There is no such thing as Mad’khalism nor a quietist train in Salafiyyah.

A response to Western academics who categorise Salafis into Quietists, Politicos and Jihadists – and why this is a false categorisation.

http://www.themadkhalis.com/md/

The claim that so-called Madkhalism favours dictatorial rulers is nothing more than an attempt by the Khawarij to hide or misconstrue the sound methodology transmitted in the Sunnah regarding how a Muslim should deal with rulers, whether pious or sinful.

Read: https://abukhadeejah.com/the-tyranny-of-the-rulers-a-reason-for-rebellion/

Closing The Door Of Rebellion Against The Ruler – By Shaikh Abu Iyadh, may Allah preserve him.

http://www.salafipublications.com/sps/downloads/pdf/GRV070006.pdf

Regarding the claim that so-called Madkhalism is “Characterised by monarchism and loyalty to secular authoritarian governments in the Arab world, and Arab states have generally favored Madkhalism due to its support for secular forms of government as opposed to other strains of Salafism”, this is just another desperate attempt by the khawarij, Qutubiyyah, and other extremists to confuse two very important issues, namely: how to deal with a ruler who rules by secular law, and rulership itself. Read:

Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Baaz on Judging by other than the Sharee’ah

https://www.troid.org/ruling-by-other-than-the-law-of-allah/

http://www.salafipublications.com/sps/downloads/pdf/GRV070006.pdf

http://www.aqidah.com/creed/articles/kyvik-the-khilaafah-lasted-for-30-years-then-there-was-kingship.cfm#:~:text=(6363)%3A%20The%20Prophet%20(sallallaahu,Qayrawaanee%20(1%2F96).

Regarding the pathetic statement that so-called “Madkhalism’s decline in Saudi Arabia has been connected with a decline in support for secular forms of government in the Muslim world”, this is the statement of an idiot who knows very little or nothing about Salafiyyah, or a pseudo analyst.

Read:

Believer’s Bahaviour Towards Muslim Rulers – [Supplicates For Them….]

Indeed, the sound methodology that Al-Allamah Rabee propagated is the same that Imam Abdul Azeez Bin Baaz, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saalih Al-Uthaymeen, Imam Al-Albaanee, and others have advocated, and not a single one of them advocates false Takfeer, rebellion, demonstrations, and turmoil in Muslim lands. This so-called decline of so-called Madkhalism is nothing more than a desperate attempt by the liars to make it appear as if the methodology preached by Al-Allamah Rabee in dealing with rulers is unique to him, when, in fact, everything the Shaikh said about rulers is what other upright Salafi scholars say. Al-Allaamah Salih al-Fawzaan, may Allah preserve him, stated:

“We know that the khawaarij are those who hold that they can renounce obedience (to the ruler). They hold that the ruler is not given the oath of allegiance or that it is not binding upon the people to maintain their oath of allegiance to him when he becomes sinful, and they (also) declare the Muslims to be disbelievers for committing major sins. So if they adopt this school of thought and there arises neither uproar nor killing, then they are left alone, advised, and given clarification in the hope that they may repent. If they cause uproar and manifest their strength, it then becomes obligatory for the Muslims (i.e. the ruler’s army) to fight them to avert their evil”.[3]

Al-Allamah Salih al-Fawzan also stated:

There are different types of khawarij: among them are those who carry weapons, those who speak out like the one (i.e. Dhul-Khuwaysirah) who said to the Messenger, “Be Just,” those who write, and the one who believes in his heart but does not speak or do anything, but has the belief of the khawaarij in his creed. However, some are worse than others”. [4]

So, based on Al-Allamah Salih al-Fawzaan’s clarification regarding the Muslim’s relationship with rulers and refutation of the Khawarij, which is the identical clarification offered by all Salafi Imams, such as Abdul Azeez Bin Baaz, Al-Albaanee, and Muhammad Ibn Saalih Al-Uthaymeen, will the liars at concoct a so-called strain within Salafiyyah called Fawzanism, Baazism, Uthayminism, or Al-Albaanism?!

Indeed, there is nothing left to say to the liars other than that whoever among us is lying or hiding the truth regarding what they have written about so-called Madkhalism and Al-Allamah Rabee, then may Allah’s curse be upon the liar. If they are truthful, then call Allah to witness and invoke the curse of Allah upon the liar.

[1]https://www.nawawis40hadith.com/nw/hadith/28/sticking-to-the-sunnah

[2]https://salaficentre.com/2015/01/01/those-who-nickname-the-salafis-with-the-terms-madkhaliyyah-jaamiyyah-shaikh-rabee-responds-2/

[3] It’haf Al-Qaaree Bi- Attaliqat Alaa Sharh As-Sunnah Lil Imam Al-Barbahaaree. 1/240-242.

[4] Al-Ijaabaat Al-Muhimmah Fil-Mashaakil Al-Mulimmah  pages 10-11