Question:
What do you say regarding an individual who praises the Ihyaa Turaath organisation?
Answer:
Ihyaa Turath is a Hizbi organization that keeps their money in banks, and their organization participates in elections within their ranks, and likewise they also take pictures of animate beings.
Also, they aid the Hizbiyoon against the Salafiyoon, and other than this of legislative violations which are found with the Hizbi organizations.
It’s an obligation to warn from the trials and tribulations which splits the Muslims and pushes them into Hizbiyyah (bigoted partisanship), differencing and sins, like the case of these organization’s.
Answered by: Shaykh, the Allamah, the Trustworthy Advisor, Abu Abdirrahman Yahya bin Ali Al-Hajuri – may Allah preserve him
Translated by: Abu Mālik Nāsir Al-Ma’mary
Source: (١) أسئلة السلفيين بالحديدة، بتاريخ: ليلة الجمعة ٣٠ جمادى الأولى ١٤٢٣ه.. دماج – دار الحديث.