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The Life, Teachings and Influence of Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhaab
Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).” 1 If
one wanted to briefly summarize the mistakes that led to the creation
of these different heretical groups, it was a failure to combine together
all the relevant texts on an issue and understand them as a consistent,
relevant whole.
(5) There is no complete allegiance and submission to the
teachings of any human save the Messenger of Allah (peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him): As a corollary to the first point, it
follows that every human commits mistakes and no one is to be
completely followed in everything that he says save the Messenger of
Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). Muhammad ibn
Abdul-Wahhaab once wrote,
I—and all praises be to Allah alone—am not calling to a Sufi, fiqh or
theological school. Nor am I calling to any of the Imams that I
greatly respect, such as ibn al-Qayyim, al-Dhahabi, ibn Katheer and
others. Instead, I am calling to Allah alone, who has no partners,
and I am calling to the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (peace
and blessings of Allah be upon him) which he advised the first and
the last of his nation to follow. And I hope that I never reject any
truth that should come to me. In fact, I call to witness Allah, His
angels and all of His creation that if any word of truth should come
to me from him 2 I should then accept it with a complete
submission 3 and I should completely discard any statement from
my Imams that contradicts it—save for [my Imam] the Messenger
of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) who only spoke
the truth. 4
On many other occasions, ibn Abdul-Wahhaab also quoted the verse,
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