Murabitun

[Salaf]

Assalam u Alaikum

I was just wondering what you all think of the Murabitun?

They seem to me to be the only Sunni group who are saying anything worth listening to right now.

Wassalam

[faqir]

Wa alaykum asalam,

What are they saying?

[Salaf]

Shaykh Abdalqadir as-sufi is their leader. His website has a lot of good articles.

http://www.shaykhabdalqadir.com/phtml/index.php

They promote all areas of Islam and establish islamic communities all over the world.

They are also highly critical of the wahhabis and more importantly the modernists. I feel sometimes that many sunnis will immediately attack the wahhabis but are willing defend any modernist who is a good speaker.

I'm sorry if I sound a bit extreme.

[faqir]

I get the feeling they are living in a world of their own when it comes to issues like paper money and zakat and Islamic banking and so on but otherwise I've read some of his books and they're quite interesting.

[Muawiyah]

What's this "Tareeqah Mariamiah"?

[Shaykhs-Pir Sahib]

their idea of the re-institution of zakat and the real dinar and dirham - the authentic and true islamic monetary system based on gold and silver is actually very good and very accurate in principle - and has had effect in places such as UAE and Malaysia. One can now open 'accounts' of gold and trade in these new minted coins in those countries.

although practically speaking, i fail to see how it can be implented until the muslims leaders adopt it, withdraw from the IMF and world bank etc - not something they would like to do obviously.

of course, credit is due to the murabitun for their galliant efforts, but often some of their goals are not practical and implementation would be too difficult for most Muslims.

Groups are groups, and with it comes a group mentality, and the murabitun (along with HT, ALM, Ikhwan etc) are not free from it, and this is obvious from my experience directly with them... their attack on modernist, qutbi/salafi/ihwani thought deserves recognition, however.

its worth mentioning that Shaykh Hamza Yusuf used to be part of this group a long time ago....

[Muawiyah]

I personally think that modernists are a bigger threat than "salafis" though both of these sects are similar in being skeptical.

[Salaf]

I personally think that modernists are a bigger threat than "salafis" though both of these sects are similar in being skeptical.

Absolutely

I don't think there is enough criticism of the modernists from sunnis to be honest and instead they tend dump all the blame on "wahhabism".

One reason for this I believe is that modernists appear to be "nice muslims" who are always defending islam from attacks by the kuffar with their constant lectures on "Human's rights in Islam" and "The Islamic constitution". Hence sunnis are more hesitant to criticise them.

I've been to a lecture by one such modernist who dualy commended Muhammed Abdul ibn Wahhab as an islamic reformer and at the same time was preaching human rights. These insane contradictions are rife in modernist literature.

[Muawiyah]

What do the brothers think of the shaykh's conspiracy theory regarding the wahhabies?

[Salaf]

What do the brothers think of the shaykh's conspiracy theory regarding the wahhabies?

Which conspiracy?