ADVICE TO OUR BRETHREN THE SCHOLARS OF NAJD pdf

Advice To Our Brethren the Scholars of Najd by Sayyid Yusuf al-Rifa`i

ADVICE TO OUR BRETHREN THE SCHOLARS OF NAJD

A modern anti-Wahhabi open letter written in Arabic in 2000 by the late Kuwaiti Minister of State, Sunni scholar and educator al-Sayyid Yusuf b. Hashim al-Rifa’i (1932-2018),

with a prologue written by Damascus’ arch-scholar Dr. Muhammad Sa’id Ramadan al-Buti (1929-2013).

Dr. Gibril Fouad Haddad, their pupil, completed a full approved English translation, which was published in their lifetimes at Maktabat al-Ahbab in Damascus in 2002.

 The writers of the open letter decry what they see as unjustifiable excesses by Wahhabi scholars against Muslims in the name of purism.

Sayyid Yusuf al-Rifa‘i is one of the most remark- able, eminent personalities and scholars of Kuwait.

He has brought together in his knowledge of Islam, ever since I have known him, scholarly endeavor with the call to Islam as well as humanitarian and social efforts and works of charity.

He has always been commanding good and forbidding evil as much as possible, his reliance in this being — after knowledge — his love for the sake of Allah and his concern for the servants of Allah 3%.

He has kept contact with all the Muslims regardless of their different groups and communities, the way a brother keeps in touch with his Muslim brethren always striving to reform the latter by extending the bridges of mutual sincere advice to them.

In this he took for his guide the Divine command “Therefore make peace between your brethren? (49:10) and the directive of the Messenger of Allah & who said: “Religion is sincere, faithful advice…”