الخميس، 6 مارس 2025
NO ONE praises the KHAWARIJ, BUT THE KHAWARIJ
NO ONE praises the KHAWARIJ, BUT THE KHAWARIJ
It is the Khawārij Who Praise the Khawārij
By Abū l-Ḥasan Mālik al-Akhḍar, a noble scholar of Islām AbūBakr Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn al-Ᾱjurrī(Rahimahullah), in his book al-Shariʿah, who mentioned the consensus of the scholars, past and present, that the Khawārij are an evil people.
Undoubtedly, he intends a consensus of scholars upon the Sunnah, for their agreement in this affair is well-known. Thus,if one looks or praise of the Khawārij, he will not find it in their works: the books of Ḥadīth and Athar.
Where he will find praise for such a people, however,is in their own prose and poetry.
An example of this comes in the biography of ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān. A narrator of ḥadīth who was originally from the people of Sunnah; he had a cousin known for her beauty, and he sought to take her as wife. Unfortunately, she was upon the methodology of the Khawārij. In spite of his, he still desired to wed her, stating, “I will marry her and dissuade her from her false ideology.”
But when they married, it was she, instead,who dissuaded him from the Sunnah and ushered him into the ranks of the Ḥururiyyah. How low he sank into their depths, until penning a poem in memoriam of the assassin of the noble companion, cousin and on in law of Allāh’s Messenger, ʿAli b. AbūṬālib(). This assassin, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muljam, attacked ʿAli with a sword dipped in poison, striking the leader of the faithful as he entered he masjid for morning prayer.
After Ibn Muljam took the life of ʿAli, and was put to death,ʿImrān . Ḥiṭṭān blackened his pages with the lines:
when they married, it was she, instead,who dissuaded him from the Sunnah and ushered him into the ranks of the Ḥururiyyah. How low he sank into their depths, until penning a poem in memoriam of the assassin of the noble companion, cousin and on in law of Allāh’s Messenger, ʿAli b. AbūṬālib(). This assassin, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muljam, attacked ʿAli with a sword dipped in poison, striking the leader of the faithful as he entered he masjid for morning prayer.
After Ibn Muljam took the life of ʿAli, and was put to death,ʿImrān . Ḥiṭṭān blackened his pages with the lines:
O that blow from a righteous man who desired only to reach the Owner of the Throne while He is pleased with him.
I recall him some times and deem him from the most faithful of the people with Allāh.
Such excessive praise (any praise for that matter), for the most contemptable of creatures, for the most sinful of acts, could only emanate from the Khawārij.
Indeed,it was the takfirī dog Usāmah b. Laden who lauded the nineteen hijackers of 9/11, calling them brothers in faith—martyrs even—exalting their destruction and devastation.
And who would extol a group of deranged killers, armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and suicide belts, shooting and bombing innocent civilians in the streets of Paris?
The Khawārij of ISIS would.
In an announcement published by the group, they called these terrorists who lauded the nineteen hijackers of 9/11, calling them brothers in faith—martyrs even—exalting their destruction and devastation.
And who would extol a group of deranged killers, armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and suicide belts, shooting and bombing innocent civilians in the streets of Paris?
The Khawārij of ISIS would.
In an announcement published by the group, they called these terrorists “youth who divorced the world and went to their enemy seeking to be killed in the cause of Allāh.”
How much today resembles yesterday.
For when we compare the praise of ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān for ʿAli’s assassin with the praise of the modern day Khawārij, the people of takfīr, for their brothers in blood, we witness the same excessive, unconscionable praise for those worthy of nothing but contempt; the kind of contempt found in the Prophet’s Sunnah.
For when we compare the praise of ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān for ʿAli’s assassin with the praise of the modern day Khawārij, the people of takfīr, for their brothers in blood, we witness the same excessive, unconscionable praise for those worthy of nothing but contempt; the kind of contempt found in the Prophet’s Sunnah.
Was it not Allāh’s Messenger (ﷺ) who said that they were the worst of creatures,dogs of the Hellfire?
Collected by Ibn ājah in his Sunnan (no. 169) narrated by Ibn Abū Awfā who said: Allāh’s Messenger said: ‘The are the dogs of the Hellfire.”
As for those who erringly believe that the Prophet (ﷺ) praised the Khawārij, let them consider the statement of al-ʿAllāmah Aḥmad al-Najmī (Rahimahullah) in Sharḥ Usūl al-Sunnah (al-Dar al-Athariyyah, 1430-2009):
And some have been tempted by the people of innovation due to hat they have seen from them of devotion [to worship], display of humility, tears, and other than this from an abundance of worship; however, this is not the true gauge in learning the truth.
For indeed the Messenger of Allāh saidto his Companions, in describing of the people of innovation:
“One of you will be jealous of your prayer next to their prayer and our fast ext o their fast and your recitation beside their recitation.” [This is part of the ḥadīth collected by al-Bukhārī in his Ṣaḥīḥ(no. 6933 and 6934), and Muslim (no. 2448)]
Here the Shaykh clarifies that these innovators’ dutifulness in worship is ofttimes a temptation, so Allāh’s Messenger (ﷺ) warned from them, informing his Ummah that these worshipers would “leave the religion faster than the arrow passes through game.”
All they needed to do to was simply finish he ḥadīth.
And while these dogs of the Fire may describe one another as “the most faithful of the people with Allāh”or“martyrs”or“youth who divorced the world,” it was the noble Salafī scholar Imām Ibn Baz (Rahimahullah)—in keeping with the methodology of the Prophet (ﷺ)—who called them “the brothers of the Devil.”
And while ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān celebrated Ibn Muljam in verse,it was one of the Sunnī scholars of past who replied:
And while ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān celebrated Ibn Muljam in verse,it was one of the Sunnī scholars of past who replied:
O that blow from a wretched man who desired from it to meet the Owner of the Throne in utter loss. I recall him sometimes and deem him from the most despicable of the people with Allāh.
So when we turn the pages of the books of Sunnah, this is all we find concerning the descendants of Dhū al-Khuwayṣarah: disdain and disparagement; pages of chapters, volumes of books, nothing but their dispraise. or no one praises the Khawārij but the Khawārij
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