Shaykh Muhammad al-Wasaabee
Adaption: Taalib Alexander
1. Muhammad Suroor who claimed – erroneously – that the books of creed (‘Aqeedah) are dry due them being only text from the Qur’aan and Sunnah;
2. Muhammad Suroor who claimed – erroneously – that the scholars of Towheed are ‘slaves of slaves of slaves of the slave and their ultimate master is a Christian’ (i.e. George H. Bush);
3. Muhammad Suroor who claimed – erroneously – that the scholars of Towheed are ‘liars’, ‘hypocrites’ and ‘spies’;
4. Praise for the one – he is Hassan Turabi – who permits the Muslim to revert to Christianity or Judaism;
5. Praise for the one – he is Hassan Turabi – who claims it is not permissible to say that Jews or Christians are not believers;
6. Their praise of the one – he is Muhammad al-Ghazaalee – who makes fun of the hijab calling it a ‘tent’;
7. Muhammad Suroor who claimed – erroneously – that ‘flags’ and ‘pictures of leaders’ are ‘false idols from the false idols of our age’;
8. Muhammad Suroor – declared apostates those who commit a major sin;
9. One of their senior ideologues accused the Committee of
Senior Scholars of Saudi Arabia of holding ‘Masonic ideology’;
10. Their defense of the one who – erroneously – accused shaykh al-Albaanee of being a ‘secularist’ and ‘murji”;
11. Their defence of the one – he is Sayyid Qutub – who erroneously criticised Prophet Moosa (Peace be upon him);
12. Their defense of the one – he is Sayyid Qutub – who erroneously criticised the caliphate of the noble Companion ‘Uthmaan bin ‘Affaan (may Allaah be pleased with him);
13. Their defense of the one – he is Sayyid Qutub – who erroneously accused some of the Companions of religious hypocrisy;
14. Defense of the one – he is Sayyid Qutub – who erroneously stated that: ‘Islam is a mixture of socialism and Christianity’.
15. Their defense of the one – he is Hassan al-Bannaa – who called to unity of the religions;
16. Their praise of the one – he is Muhammad al-Ghazaalee – who calls to socialism and erroneously claims and that, ‘Islam is a socialist religion’.
17. Their falsely accusing the People of the Sunnah of being ‘Khawaarij’, ‘Murji’ah’ or ‘Qadariyyah’;
19. Their defense of the one – he is Muhammad al-Mas’ari – who said that Shaykh Abdul-Azeez bin Baaz (may Allaah have mercy upon him) had ‘reached a level of complete idiocy and senility.’
20. Their defence of the one – al-Khomeini – who said, ‘the prophets did not succeed in their mission, and the ones who succeeded in that, they are our scholars’.
Source: Adapted from: 20 Criticisms of the Surooreeyah by Shaykh Muhammad al-Wasaabee(2006)