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Subject: SUNNI & WAHABI
Author: .....KKK	[ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ] Date Posted: 00:36:22 06/15/02 Sat Author Host/IP: NoHost/196.2.67.242 salaams, I would like to know what is the difference between a sunni & wahabi, and which is the correct one: please give references salaam [ Next Thread \| Previous Thread \| Next Message \| Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: SUNNI & WAHABI

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Laila Nasheeba
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Date Posted: 04:52:05 06/15/02 Sat
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As Salaamu Alaikoum,

Questions such as this are questions of politics and we normally do not entertain these sort of questions, however this one time I will answer this.

Sunni refers to a person who follows the Quran and the Sunnah as opposed to one who does not. These people are called Ahl al-Sunnah wa�l-Jamaa�ah (the People of the Sunnah and the Community). Everyone who follows the way brought by the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) is one of them and this includes those whom you refer to as Wahabi.

The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) brought the message of Tawheed (absolute Oneness of Allaah) and rejection of shirk (polytheism, or association of others with Allaah); he called people to worship Allaah alone and none other. With regard to the word �Wahhaabis�, some people use this word to refer to the message of Shaykh Muhammad ibn �Abd al-Wahhaab ibn Sulaymaan al-Tameemi al-Hanbali (may Allaah have mercy on him), and they call him and his followers Wahhaabis.

Everyone who has any knowledge of the movement of Shaykh Muhammad ibn �Abd al-Wahhaab (may Allaah have mercy on him) and his message knows that he sought to spread the message of pure Tawheed and to warn against shirk in all its forms, such as attachment to the dead, or to trees and rocks, etc. In his �aqeedah (belief), he was following the way of the righteous Salaf and the Taabi�een [i.e., the earliest generations of Islam], as is indicated by his books and fatwas, and the books of his followers among his sons and grandsons and others.

All of these books are in print and are in circulation among the people. His message was in accordance with the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). Wahhaabism is not a new way or a new school of thought; rather it is a call to Tawheed and the revival of aspects of the religion that had been forgotten.

So thus a wahabi is a sunni..one who follows the way of the Quran and Sunnah in accordance to the understanding of the Salaf.

AND ALLAH KNOWS BEST

Laila Nasheeba