Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Activists on social media circulated an excerpt from an interview conducted by the Islamic preacher, Salih al-Maghamsi, and what he said regarding the Ibadi sect, citing what Salih al-Fawzan, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars in the Kingdom said regarding this sect.
Al-Maghamsi’s statements came in an interview with Radio Eight, last week, in which he said: “Frankly, few people are familiar with the four schools of thought. I mean, you may come to a person who is an imam in his doctrine who returns to him in the Hanbali school of thought, but if you ask him regarding the doctrines of Malik and Shafi’i, I mean, he knows simple things that he has not studied.” And if you ask Maliki, the same is the same, and if you ask an intercessor, a few, not to mention the doctrine of Ja’far al-Sadiq, which the Shiites adopt, or the school of Ibn Hazm, which is more like what we have avoided.
He added: “I mention, praise be to God, Muhammad Abu Zahra, the well-known Egyptian imam, may God have mercy on him, who was studying in graduate studies at Al-Azhar University, the jurisprudential doctrines. The Ibadi sect, and I have a copy of the madhhab, and I contemplate and read it, and I am the most honorable of the people of this sect and I love them, and there is no animosity between me and any of the people of Islam.
He continued, “I do not want there to be a rivalry between me and them, and I do not have to believe in everything they say, but I was not mandated by God to be an arbiter between His creation. I mean, this is a point that I know from myself, what God has assigned me to be an arbiter.”
