to the Sharia and call for striving in Allah’s cause: weakness in the reality of their faith, corrupt intentions and aims, and their remoteness from intentions sincerely devoted to Allah, from soundness of heart and inner life, and from striving so that Allah’s word may be supreme and all religion may be devoted to Allah alone. Likewise, among many who condemn innovated listening, they have found hardness of heart and remoteness from noble character and from tasting the reality of faith.

This neglect of Allah’s rights and transgression of His limits, found among these people and others like them who do not practise innovated listening as a religious observance but instead practise some of these other matters, has become a specious justification for the other group. Likewise, the neglect and transgression found among those who practise innovated listening have become a specious justification for their opponents to abandon much of the genuine faith and obedience to Allah and His Messenger that many of those practitioners possess.

Thus they have become divided in religion. Each group has begun inventing a religion that Allah has not prescribed and rejecting those elements of Allah’s religion that the other group possesses. They have come to resemble the nations before them.

As Allah Most High says:

“And from those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ We took their covenant, but they forgot a portion of that of which they were reminded. So We stirred up enmity and hatred among them until the Day of Resurrection.”
[Surah al-Mā’idah 14]

And Allah Most High says:

“The Jews say, ‘The Christians have no foundation,’ and