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The Wahabi and Muslim:
The Wahabi [bida'] (corruption)
The Wahabis believe that they are the only true Muslims
because they uphold divine unity while other Muslims are
idolaters who deserve to lose their lives and
possessions. According to them, a person must not be
considered a Muslim even if he pronounces al-Shahadatain,
the two testimonies, that there is no God but Allah and
Muhammad is his apostle if he also believes that he could
be blessed by visiting the Prophet's mosque and ask for
his intercession.
They maintain that any Muslim who professes such
beliefs is an idolater whose idolatry is a worse kind
than that of Pre-Islamic people who worshipped idols and
planets.
In his book Kashful al-Shubuhat, Muhammad ibn
Abdul Wahab called all Muslims, with the exception of his
followers, idolaters about 24 times. Other labels he used
to describe them were: heretics, idols' worshippers
apostates, anti-divine unity, enemies of divine unity,
Allah's enemies and perfidious Muslims in 20 different
parts of the same book. His followers copied him in this
practice.
It is essential to ask here if this doctrine was truly
based on a consensus of learned scholars or is it a
Wahabi bida' or corruption? Ibn Hazim, the well-
known Sunni scholar, asserted that «a Muslim can not be
called a heretic or a sinner on the bases of his opinions
whether made in the form of a doctrine or a religious
decree. After mentioning numerous religious scholars who
endorsed this viewpoint he concluded that it was the
consensus of all Companions who commented on it.»13
According to Ibn Taimia only the Khawarij judged other
Muslims to be heretics on the bases of their sins and
learned opinions or deductions.14 As such, the
Wahabis have no precedent supporting this bida'
except the infamous Khawarij.
