Shaykh ʿUbayd ibn ʿAbdullah al-Jabiri رحمه الله said: “Oh Muslims, be careful that opinions overcome you and you are confused by dazzling speech for this is the beginning of misguidance and destruction. May Allah protect us and you in our religion in this life and the Hereafter.” [Reference: “Upon You Is To Follow My Sunnah And The Sunnah Of The Rightly Guided Caliphs,” explanation of the hadith of al-ʿIrbad ibn Sariyah] This warning is built upon a great foundation from the

Introduction: The Sunnah Is Clarity, Light, and The Truth The Sunnah is clarity, light, knowledge, iman, ikhlas, justice, and mercy. It is to submit to Allah by following His revelation and obeying the guidance which was revealed and brought to His Messenger ﷺ, upon the understanding and practice of the sahabah and those who followed them precisely upon their path. This is the Salafi manhaj: to follow the revelation with the understanding of the Salaf, to take knowledge fro

The Salaf did not treat listening to the people of innovation as harmless exposure. They feared for the heart, because the heart is affected by what it hears, sits with, becomes familiar with, and repeatedly allows into itself. Their concern was not weakness in the truth; rather, it was their knowledge of the danger of doubts, desires, argumentation, false interpretations, and the subtle ways shaytan gradually removes a person from firmness upon the Sunnah. This is why they