Shaykh Hammaad al-Ansaaree defines when someone who has fallen into an innovation is rightly called an innovator.
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You are an innovator
Shaykh Hammaad al-Ansaaree on when someone falling into an innovation is, and is not, rightly called an innovator.
The innovators are like scorpions
The innovators are like scorpions. They bury their heads and bodies in the sand and leave their tails out.
Signs of the people of innovation are clear and obvious
The signs of the people of innovation are clear and obvious. The most apparent of their signs is their severe enmity for those who carry the [authentic] reports of the Prophet.
Whoever belittles the Ahlul-Hadeeth
And we are not focusing on mentioning the virtues of the Ahlul-Hadeeth, for indeed their virtues are well known and their merits are many. So whoever belittles them, then he is despicable and lowly.
Whoever listens to a person of innovation
Whoever listens to a person of innovation – and knows that he is a person of innovation – then protection is taken away from him, and he is left to himself.
Whoever listens to an innovator
Whoever listens to an innovator has left the protection of Allaah and is entrusted with the innovation.
Whoever honours an innovator
Whoever honours an innovator has aided in the destruction of Islaam.
A sign of the people of innovation
A sign of the people of innovation is their battling against the people of narrations.
Do not sit with the people of innovation and desires
Do not sit with the people of innovation and desires, nor argue with them, nor listen to them.