Shaykh Saalih bin Fawzaan
stated:
It has been narrated from the righteous
predecessors that: “People never introduce an innovation (into the religion)
except that they lose the like of it from the Sunnah”
This is because the Sunnah and innovation cannot co-exist
except that one of them will eliminate the other. Therefore, a person cannot be
an innovator and Sunni (at the same
time); rather he is either an innovator or a Sunni (one upon the Sunnah). Both attributes cannot co-exist in
him; one of them must eliminate the other. This is one of the dangers of
innovation.
This reported wisdom is
confirmed through experience; its proof is that you find the followers of
innovations despising authentic ahadith
and the Sunan (ways of guidance of
Allah’s messenger). The worst enemy to them and the most detestable of what
they hear is to say: ‘So and so hadeeth forbids or prohibits this”.
They do not want to hear the ahadith or Sunan that oppose what they
are upon. This is a sign that the Sunnah and innovation cannot coexist. As for
the person upon the Sunnah, if he hears a hadeeth from the Messenger of Allaah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam),
he feels happy with that and adds good to (his) good, and more knowledge to
(his) knowledge.
The one upon the Sunnah is
happy with the hadeeth of the Messenger of Allaah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) whereas the follower of
innovation flees from them. This is something clear regarding the innovators;
they wage war against the Sunan because it suppresses what they possess of
innovations. This contains discouragement from innovations; that innovations
wipe out the Sunan and as well, remove the love of the Sunan from the hearts.
Source: A Gift to the
Reader in Annotation of Sharh as-Sunnah, vol. 1, p. 76-79 by Dr, Saalih bin
Fawzaan bin Abdullah al-Fawzaan.
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