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The Life, Teachings and Influence of Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhaab
with Allah in His Godhood and the falsehood of shirk has been made
clear to him.” 1 He also wrote, “If we do not declare a disbeliever the
one who worships the idol over the grave of Abdul-Qaadir or the idol
over the grave of Ahmad al-Badawi and the like due to their ignorance
and not having had the truth explained to them, how could we declare
as disbeliever the one who does not associate partners with Allah or
who does not migrate to us…?” 2
Ibn Ghannaam also described how the attacks came upon ibn
Abdul-Wahhaab and how the enemies showed their strong attachment
to their sins and idolatry. Yet in the face of all those attacks, ibn
Abdul-Wahhaab withheld his tongue and bore their attacks patiently.
He did not declare anyone a disbeliever until all the attacks were set
loose upon him and he himself and his followers were being declared
disbelievers. 3
Muhammad’s son Abdullah also wrote, after stating that all
such claims were lies, “Whoever witnesses our affairs and joins our
meetings and verifies what we have will know with certainty that all
of those things have been fabricated against us by the enemies of the
religion and the brethren of Satan, in order to drive the people away
from submitting with purity to the oneness of Allah in matters of
worship and leaving all forms of shirk, which Allah has explicitly
stated He will not forgive, although He forgives whatever is less than
that to whomever He wills.” 4 The same Abdullah, the son of
Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhaab, also wrote, “As for [al-Boosairi] the
writer of the Burdah and others in whose words one finds shirk and
extremism in the religion and who have died, he [ibn Abdul-
Wahhaab] did not declare them to be disbelievers. However, it is
obligatory to object to their words and explain that whoever believes
the apparent meaning of those words is an idolater, disbeliever.
However, as for the one who stated it, his affair is left to Allah. It is
not necessary to speak about the dead and one does not know if they
repented or not…” 5
1 Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhaab, Muallifaat, vol. 7, p. 60.
2 Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhaab., Muallifaat, vol. 7, p. 48.
3 Cf., al-Abdul-Lateef, p. 172.
4 Quoted in al-Abdul-Lateef, p. 172.
5 Quoted in al-Abdul-Lateef, p. 172.