Understanding Wahhabism and Its Beliefs

What is the Wahhabi doctrine?

Know that the Wahhabis are followers of Satan's horn.

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, who died in the year one thousand

two hundred and sixty AH, and they are anthropomorphists.

They depict God as resembling humans and animals,

and insult Him by saying that God is seated on

the Throne or the Chair, as in their book Fath al-Majid

by Abd al-Rahman ibn Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Abd

al-Wahhab. They say that denying corporeality

and limbs and organs to God is reprehensible

discourse, as in their book entitled

Admonitions in Refutation of Those Who Interpret the Attributes

by the blind Ibn Baz. They say that God is

settled upon the Throne, as in their book entitled

Observations and Comments on What Is in the Book

Al-Salafiyyah, by Salih al-Fawzan the Loser.

Their misguided leader Ibn Uthaymeen says in

his interpretation of the Verse of the Chair, “The Chair is the place

of God's feet,” God forbid, because of his disbelief.

In his book entitled The Monthly Meeting, he says it is not

permissible for us to affirm that God has a tongue, nor to

deny it of Him, because we have no knowledge of that,

and God Almighty forbid anthropomorphism, disbelief and atheism.

And he says in his book called Fatwas

on Creed, “God moves, meaning He moves from

above to below, and from below to above.” What does this have to do with Islam?

Following Ibn

Taymiyyah, the anthropomorphist philosopher, they say the world

is eternal in kind, as in Sharh al-Tahawiyyah

by Ibn Abi al-Izz, whom Ibn Baz

the blind praised. This is their claim that God

did not create the genus of the world. They also deny Adam’s prophethood

too, peace be upon him, as in their book

called Belief in the Prophets as a Whole, by Abd

Allah ibn Zayd. They say that Hellfire

will perish, with no one remaining in it, as in

their book called The Preferred View on the Annihilation of

Hellfire by Abd al-Karim al-Humayd. Likewise,

the Wahhabis forbid seeking intercession through prophets

and saints, indeed deeming it polytheism requiring

eternal residence in Hell, as in their book

called The Creed of the Believer by Abu Bakr

al-Jaza’iri. They likewise forbid seeking blessings

through the relics of prophets and saints, and claim that

seeking aid from prophets is polytheism, as in their book

called The Sound Creed and What

Contradicts It by Ibn Baz the blind.

They forbid Muslims from celebrating the Prophet's birthday.

Peace and blessings be upon him, claiming that this

is imitating the Jews, as stated in their book called

<i>Warning Against Innovations</i> by the blind Ibn Baz. Although

the Wahhabis celebrate the birth of their sheikh, the Horn

of Satan, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, for an entire week,

and they deem visiting the Prophet's grave, peace

and blessings be upon him, for blessings to be an act

of polytheism. They consider sending blessings upon the Prophet

aloud after the call to prayer an innovation that must be prohibited,

as in the blind Ibn Baz's commentary on the book

<i>Fath al-Bari</i>. They forbid reciting the Quran

at a Muslim's grave, as in their book called

<i>Islamic Guidelines</i>. They also forbid

wearing Quranic verses on the chest, as in

their book called <i>Important Fatwas</i> by Ibn

Baz. They describe Ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jama'a

as Mu'attila, meaning those who deny God's attributes, as

stated in their book called <i>The Ideal Principles</i> by Ibn

al-Uthaymeen, the misguided. Because Ahl al-Sunna interpreted

the ambiguous verses and did not take them according to

their apparent meaning, acting upon His Almighty saying, “There is

nothing like Him.” This verse is faster

A verse on God’s transcendence beyond resemblance to creation, so one must

be cautious and warn others against Wahhabism

and its creed, for the greatest harm to

Muslims comes from those who invoke religion, from

Wahhabism and the Muslim Brotherhood. May God spare

Muslims from their evil.