—and even Paradise itself and all of humankind—until your very guide to Hell claimed to have discovered it, summoned you to it, and sounded the alarm. You answered his call, were content with his condition, embraced his sophistry, and branded anyone who refused to follow you in this deviation as ignorant.

By contrast, the People of the Sunnah accepted the word of their Lord and His counsel, the Messenger of their Lord and his sunnah, and they walked the path of their predecessors. “Which of the two parties is more entitled to security, if you only knew? Those who believe and do not mix their faith with wrongdoing—it is they who shall have security, and they are rightly guided.” (Qur’an 6:81-82)

Allah knows best.

This blessed fatwa was concluded by the poorest of creation in need of his majestic Lord’s mercy, the servant Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Maqdisī, al-Ḥanbalī, al-Salafī—having offered prayers and salutations and uttered the ḥawqala—on Monday, 17 Rajab 1227 AH.