AbuQuteiba
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Mujahid Mohammed said:I have met brothers who claim to be wahabis. Some are more radical than others. Like in the Shia, there are some who are not as radical in teachings as others. And i have heard from scholars who condemn their philosophy. Why because some of them want to be the ruling class in Islam meaning they want the Khilafah. When it is not a specific title or group which will remain supreme. It is the method of the practice of the relgion. Are they doing what is in the sunnah and Quran if yes then it is O.K. to learn from them but I would not adopt the title. Why the Prophet himself did not want us to label ourselves it creates division. We as muslims know this. Just like some Salafis scholars some give you what is correct and some do not. Take what is good and leave the rest.
But do not doubt their are some who have taken this idea and ran with it some a little farther than others. You know look at the sufis Some practice deen correctly however they still give themselves this title. And then you have some like the dirvish sect of sufi who do some interesting bida. spinning around in circles. But it is like I said take what is good and leave the rest. Guide those who lack the knowledge. We know what we should do and what is correct. So if they choose to go with a specific ideology other than the Messenger his Companions and the successors then we will see because we have the evidence.
I'm sorry, but as a student living in Mecca, the home of Muhammed ibn AbdulWahab (Rahmat Allahi 'alayhi), i know of no one, who follows the teachings of Muhammed Ibn AbdulWahab, that calls himself a WAHABBI(Or for that matter people that call themselves BAZI for example, because they follow Ibn Baz, or Albanees because they follow Muhammed Al Albany). Muhammed Ibn Abdulwahab was a great scholar of Islam. His books show that he is a follower of the Qur'an and Sunna, with the understanding of the salaf (PBUT). He also followed many great scholers like Ibn Taymiya and Ibn il Qayim etc.
It would be foolish to give yourself a title other than muslim UNLESS ITS TO SHOW YOUR MANHAJ. For example, Al imam Ahmed and the people of his time, called themselves Ahl Al Hadeeth. Which meant they were a people of the sunnah (as they're were many people back then trying to remove the sunna as a source of Islam). Today most scholars of the sunna, that are on the same track of Muhammed ibn AbdulWahab and the great scholars before him, call themselves Salafiyoon. As in they abide by the explanations (of the Wur'an and sunna) of the salaf.
I disagree with your last statement, "take whats good and leave the rest". I'm not saying that one should agree with everything a certain scholar says, BUT, if we knew what was good, and what was bad, we would'nt be studying sharia under these scholars now would we? I think the best way to handle these situations is to learn from a scholar who has been universally approved of ( by the correct Sunni muslims i mean). Like Ibn Baz, Ibn Othaimeen, Al Albany, Saleh Al Fowzan, Ibn Jibreen, etc. Or before them Ibn Taymiyah, Ibn Al Gayim, Ibn HabdilWahab, Ibn Hajar etc..(Btw, im not saying that these are the only approved scholars, NO, they're are hundreds more. Im saying that these are SOME of the universally approved of scholars, and rarely have misunderstandings between them).