Thoughts on Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahab? | Mufti Abu Layth

what are my thoughts on muhammad abdul wahab this muhammad abdul wahhab i don't know like it depends like what are my thoughts on him well ok let's let's start off simple now if I was to let's say we look at it dichotomously as in in just a bipolar fashion in the sense negative positive what are my thoughts my thoughts on him are if I was to group him in one and I could only group him in

negative or positive then at a simple level I would probably put him in negative that said as we build on that simplicity I'm sure there were things he did which were good as well it doesn't mean that when somebody does something doesn't mean that they are the kind of embodiment of evil but he did have very strange hard line he was a pure uber dogmatist he was a Puritan East he considered you know he kind of linked up with the South family and and they benefited from each other and he wanted

to establish this Puritan state he wanted to kind of knock down he did knock down several tombs and he thought that this was kind of all polytheism and shirk and he did you know if if and any killed people he killed many pilgrims he thought they were kind of polytheists because they weren't practicing pure Islam he inspired a movement which I feel I feel was was dangerous the Salafi movement the uh who had these move you see it does not mean that no good came

from me because I just want to clarify things are more complex than that good did come from the Salafi movement as well but I feel overall it did much more harm than it did good but it did good as well he revived the concept of hadith it once again challenged the concept of blind we following it challenge the you know the lack of Quran was Sunnah in discourse a kind of revealed superstitions so I feel that there was great goodness that did come from the Salafi movement as well but it also kind

of it injected a level of of of kind of like hatred this Puritan is hatred into people it also is the number one springboard for extremism although that doesn't mean every selfie is an extremist at all it does not mean that at all but it is a very easy springboard to kind of land in extremist views from the Salafi doctrine so I don't you know he has huge problems the

anthropomorphize is God and but it's not even about the anthropomorphize ation it's more about the the way of thinking so here that's if I could I hope that gives some clarity