Wahabi and Salafi

The descriptions given by peoples of today about wahhabism activity couldn't be from a person who adhered to the ASWJ teachings esp Mazhab Hanbali. What they have described was more like what a Kharijites would do. Kharijites developed extremism doctrines that does Takfir(kafir sesama muslim) on other muslim that didn't follow their opinions.

They even went to the extreme of killing the "Companions" (Sahabat). So you can see here the similarity of kahwarij and wahhabism? There is no way a Mazhab Hanbali follower act like what was describe as today's wahabi and did not went mutawatir(presumption of non deceitfulness) about it. Muslim at that time would have known what he had done and went viral about it, but it did not.


Therefore, before you start criticizing the wahhabi, you might want to look into the possibility that wahhabism has nothing to do with our Mr Muhammad Bin Abd Wahab. Beware for those who associate wahhabism to him because you might actually be making a 'fitnah' against him....and 'fitnah' is worse than murdering someone.

Maybe, the Muslims of today might want to consider renaming wahhabism into khawarijism instead? But to call the deviant Muslims as Kharijites is also not right because the Salafussoleh incl the Sahabat didn't labeled them as deviant or kafir even after they killed Sahabat, they only referred the Kharijites as Muslim that didn't share the same opinions.

Salafi is the short form for Salafussoleh, meaning pious predecessors. They include the "Companions"(Sahabat), the "Followers"(Tabi‘un) and the "Followers of the Followers"(Tabi‘ al-Tabi‘in). There is a hadith that quotes "The people of my own generation are the best, then those who come after them, and then those of the next generation," is seen as a call to Muslims to follow the example of those first 3 generations, known collectively as the Salafussoleh.

Therefore, if anyone criticizes the Salafi, are actually indirectly maligning the first 3 generations of Muslim after the Prophet. Most, if not all Ilmu Islam came from those 3 generations, if i were you, i wouldn't have the balls to criticize them, let alone labeling them as deviant Muslim. If those 3 generations of Muslims were deviant, we wouldn't have Islam today.

My suspicions is, there are some idiotic peoples, that hated the true teachings of Islam so much, who are sitting in high position in the 'Corridors of Powers', that are instigating the layman Muslim like you and me to hate each others. They uses the media and whatnot to spread the hatred to us and ignorant Muslim falls victims to their dirty trickery. Whatever it is, please bear in mind that it is we, ourselves that're answerable to Allah SWT for our action, not them. So, be wise...

Wallahu'alam