RECENTLY, A GROUP OF PEOPLE collaborated together in spreading the lie that I claim that the Major Scholars are “bedouins from the desert who are not proficient” and that they “submit to their leaders with a blind-following” and that I desire to “topple the status of the Major Scholars in order to promote a false idea”.

Commencing 19 September 2024, these accusations were spread on social media platforms to more than 75,000 followers. They were subsequently translated into English, Urdu, German and perhaps other languages and spread also on social media and chat platforms.

However, realising that his attack was not met with acceptance and seen as blameworthy, and having opposed numerous advices he had been given about his conduct, the social media poster has gone further into this harmful path he has chosen.

First: On 26 September 2024 one of the mashāyikh from Maktabah Salafiyyah contacted him to give him advice. He was told that this is not the way of the scholars and will open the doors to fitnah. So he offered a solution to what he had unleashed of tribulation:

So this is adding insult to injury and treating people who are many years older than you as if they are kids who were born yesterday.

In other words: I can slander and defame you online in front of perhaps close to a 100,000 social media followers and then when I face a backlash and a request for evidence, you must agree that you will not write anything and post this in an online message to the world. Thereafter, I will advise you privately after slandering you publicly!

Second: After my first statement of 1 October 2024 wherein I asked for the proof—and it is my right to do so—he embarked upon trying to frame me with various things to make up for his inability to prove his initial slanders in front of surprised and wary onlookers.

Third: So since the initial outburst on 19 September 2024, he has now written two more short articles, wherein he is trying to frame me with things through far-fetched interpolations and imposing things on my speech which are from his imagination. He is doing this in a "hit-and-run" like manner, where you throw many allegations in succession and then its hard for a person to respond in a timely manner to each one. And by the time the attacked person manages to unravel and explain all these things, doubts and suspicions have already been spread, and perceptions have already been formed.

I have shown patience and restraint till now, given that these matters were spread to a large online social media following and were zealously translated into various languages and spread by people, some of whom may have scores to settle. However, I am no longer left with any choice except to respond to these allegations. So I present my responses below.

Responses and Clarifications Regarding the Allegations

The online attack was initiated on 19 September 2024, the social media poster was given advice by number of people to leave this path some days after, due to its opposition to the foundations of the methodology in dealing with Ahl al-Sunnah and due to its harm. He was also asked for the basis upon which he is making these accusations and to send us the voice notes he and his committee are using, but he has not done so, and is also refusing to name his team of translators. Short of two weeks after the initial outburst, I wrote the first statement below.

Then on 7 October 2024—two days after the above document was released—he posted a short article on his social media accounts wherein he accused me of using a false principle to undermine the scholars. He was unable to justify his initial slanders, so this was simply a smokescreen.

The above document was released on 22 October 2024. However, a day earlier on 21 October 2024, the social media poster had released another open refutation, this time employing what amounts to namīmah (tale-carrying) in order to create a scandal and to use people's emotions to cloud the underlying issues. This was a further attempt to create more smoke and mirrors to deflect from the fact that he slandered me and is unable to provide evidence and justification for his slanders.

Update: 30 November 2024—It has been a month since the above statement was published and he who spread the allegations on social media was unable to substantiate them, despite being given ample time to do so. He has not apologised nor retracted his widely publicised and distributed accusations which amount to slander. This is a gross violation of the Salafi methodology in terms how presumed errors of a person of Ahl al-Sunnah are to be dealt with and is not the way of the Major Scholars.

More will be added here, by Allāh’s permission.