Notes

Over the past few years there have appeared many personalities seeking to use the power and leverage of the tube and social media to catapult themselves into the spotlight, draw in audiences and cut the general people off from the people of knowledge, the major scholars, by presenting themselves as scholars for the people. All of this in the name of Salafiyyah. However, it quickly becomes clear that they have calamities with them, have little fiqh (understanding) of the Salafi aqidah and manhaj, and their histories are dubious - having recently left grave-worship and extreme sufism or having studied under deviants and hizbees such as the Takfiris and Ikhwanis. Two figures who are representative of this are "Ustadh" Abdur-Rahman Hasan and his student Abu Taymiyyah al-Jeylani - an ambitious youngster who only recently left the mires of grave-worship and is now pretending to be an established scholar (pictured right). To see an example of their ignorance and following of desires, refer to this article which documents "Ustadh" Abdur-Rahman's claim that the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) praised the Kharijites and the subsequent disgraces he fell into in trying to defend himself, and likewise the involvement of Abu Taymiyyah in trying to defend his teacher upon ignorance and in falsehood. In this article, we see another major calamity in the subject matter of aqidah, this time from a student of Abu Taymiyyah, who himself is a student of "Ustadh" Abdur-Rahman.