In this series of articles we will take from the statements of Imaam Abdul-Aziz bin Baz, Imaam al-Albaani, Shaykh Abdullah al-Ghudayan, Shaykh Abdul-Aziz Aal ash-Shaykh, Shaykh Abdur-Razzaq al-Afeefee, Shaykh Ahmad an-Najmee, Shaykh Rabee' bin Haadee, Shaykh Ubayd al-Jaabiree, Shaykh Salih as-Suhaymee, Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ar-Raajihee and others to provide a framework of understanding regarding this subject. We will be drawing upon two fatwas mainly (the Permanent Committee of Major Scholars, and the Fiqh Council), and the sayings and remarks from some of the individual Scholars just mentioned.

The Roles and Methodologies of the Innovators and Deviants in the Corruption of the Religion - Part 1

In this article we want to cover the connection between Freemasonry and the sects and groups of Innovation, who are the prime tool of subversion for attacking Islam, both physically and ideologically.

Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ar-Raajihee on The Early Tribulations in Islam and the Formation of the Khawaarij and the Shi'ah

Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ar-Rajihee has alluded (in al-Fawaa'id fil-Aqeedah, no. 44) to an opinion regarding the involvement of these people with the formation of the sects of innovation at the dawn of Islam:

And it is said that the first Freemasonic sacrifice [in Islam] was [that of] Umar bin al-Khattaab (radiallaahu anhu), then they strove in the fitnah (tribulation) until they killed Uthmaan (radiallaahu anhu), then Alee, until there became from amongst them, the Shi'ah and the Khawaarij.

In order to grasp and fathom this statement of the Shaykh, lets provide a little background about subversive movements in general, in the context of the civilizations and their philosophies present prior to, during and after the Prophethood:

Freemasonry (and secret societies) have existed for a very long time amongst the various civilizations. It should be remembered that the Qabbalah - [the sorcery that the Rabbis devised in Babylon in the 6th century BC whilst in captivity based upon the sorcery and astrology of the Chaldeans and the mystery religions of Babylon, and whose symbols, rituals, numerals, codes and the likes form the backbone of Masonry] - that it spread when these Jews were later dispersed by Cyrus (around 532BC), and it influenced the philosophers and spiritual priests of other civilizations amongst them the Greeks (Pythagoras, Plato), likewise the Persian Zoroastrians and the Romans. The whole "Gnostic" tradition (i.e. secret mystical knowledge) emanates from this historical background. In the era of Islam, we have the pseudo-Sabian Harranians (transmitters of Greek philosophy, hermeticism, a form of magic, and astrology to the Arabs), the Gnostic Esoteric Sufis, and the Baatinee Ismaa'eelees and the Qaraamitah, and these people had orders and hierarchies, and they had a secret doctrine or religion taught only by initiation at the highest levels. The secret at the top is that religion is just a cover, and is only for the common people, but for the enlightened ones at the top, there is another reality which does away with religious observance as a whole, as Ibn Taymiyyah explains about the Qaraamitah Baatiniyyah - this is also the doctrine of Ibn Arabi who took his system of gnostic mysticism from the Jewish Qabbalah in 13th century Andalusia. The core doctrines of the Baatinees, Qaraamitah and Gnostic Sufis resembles the high Freemasonic religion of Illuminism. And they (the Baatiniyyah, Qaraamitah) had designs to destroy Islam and to bring in their own order, using the veil of Shi'ism and veneration of Ahl ul-Bayt as the front to approach Muslims.

From the above, you should have no doubt that throughout the history of Islam, the subversive movements initiated by Abdullah bin Saba' (led the revolution against Uthmaan) and the Khawaarij (they are both partners in revolution), and the esoteric gnostic movements (Baatiniyyah, Qaraamitah, Gnostic Sufis), then they are the ones used as vehicles for attacking Islam and the Muslims, physically, and ideologically, and these sects or subversive movements themselves arose on account of dubious, suspect individuals be they Zoroastrians, Qabbalist Jews, or otherwise.

So if we keep all of this in mind, that the institution of Freemasonry has been present for a long time, within the civilizations that were present before Islam and alongside Islam and at the dawn of Islam, and the early centuries of Islam the Shaykh, in the above statement, has alluded to the view that the tribulations came to Islam from such directions and orientations. He alluded to the Persian Zoroastrian plotters behind the assassination of Umar (radiallaahu anhu). Likewise the revolution led against Uthmaan (radiallahu anhu) by Abdullaah bin Saba' al-Yahudi (who created the Shi'ah) and likewise those Khawaarij who fought against Alee (radiallaahu anhu), with the latter two groups being an outgrowth of the initial [Freemasonic] instigators, upon what is alluded to by the Shaykh.

From another perspective, looking at the issue of creed, the saying of the creation of the Qur'an was taken from the saying of the creation of the Torah which was said by Talmudic Qabbalist Jews, and the negation of Allaah's uluww (highness, loftiness) was taken by al-Ja'd bin Dirham, through a chain of narration, from a Qabbalistic Jew who practiced sorcery upon the Prophet (alayhis salaam), and the deviations in Allaah's Names and Attributes coming through al-Ja'd bin Dirham were taken from peudo-Sabean philosophers (from Harraan), who themselves were gnostics, astrologers whose doctrines were behind the formation of the Baatini Ismaa'eelees, and who transmitted Neo-Platonism and Hermeticism (pantheistic mysticism and magic) and astrology to the Arabs.

Shaykh Saalih as-Suhaymee on the Khawaarij

And Shaykh Saalih as-Suhaymee said in his article titled (آية المنافق) "Sign of the Hypocrite" (dated August 2009), speaking about the Khawaarij:

Secondly, placing the dots on the letters by naming the people of this ideology with the names appropriate to them, for they are Khawaarij (Renegades), in fact, they are more evil than the Khawaarij of old, because in addition to their Kharijism and and their deviant ideology, they added the application of Machiavellian philosophy, which is that the ends justify the means. So it is not sufficient that the preachers (sermon-givers) and writers wander around the sanctuary, or that they suffice with just making hints, or mere rejection (on its own). Rather, it is necessary to expose the lords of this ideology, and explaining the legislative ruling upon them, in clarification of the true realities, and out of warning the Ummah in general and the youth in particular, from being deceived by this ideology which is taken by its people from visitations on the Internet, or from the verdicts of the foolish who crouch in the caves in mountains and who have perhaps been encouraged and nourished from the direction of the Freemasons and the Rotary and others from the Zionist organizations or what resembles them.

Just as the Khawarij of old were - upon what has been alluded to by Shaykh ar-Rajihee previously - an outgrowth of currents and trends led by outsiders (Abdullah bin Saba' al-Yahudi, by way of example), in a modern context, the doctrines of the Khawaarij were revived through Sayyid Qutb, who simply brought the methodologies of Marxist Communism to the Muslims in an Islamic garb. He spent fifteen years of his life from 1925 to 1940 engrossing himself in the secular western materialist philosophies, and that influence came through strongly in his writings. He led a Leninist, Socialist revolution in July 1952 that led Jamal Abdul-Nasser to come to power, who later imprisoned Qutb, out of fear that Qutb would launch a counter-revolution against him. Whilst in prison, Qutb put this doctrine and methodology into writing in his works, building it around the Marxist-Communist slogan of "social justice", he merged some of the fundamental tenets of Communism with Islam and he explicitly negated the Islam of every Muslim society upon the face of the earth and called for violent revolutions in all the Muslim lands.

This subversive doctrine is the very one that has been used throughout the ages to wreak havoc and turmoil within nations just as it was in the 19th century by the secular humanist atheist movements, such as those of Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, and Auguste Comte. It is based upon an atheistic, secular, materialistic, outlook that their notion of envisaged "social justice" was devised. In Islam, oppression (by rulers, states, authorities) is seen in an entirely different way than in materialist secular philosophies. But unfortunately, ignoramuses wearing the gown of Islamic scholarship and poisoned up to their ears with these secular materialist philosophies brought these secular atheistic perceptions of [Marxist-Communist] "social justice", merged them with Islam, and up pop the plethora of your 20th century revolutionary movements and your 20th century Takfiri Kharijites to provide the vehicle through which havoc can be wreaked in the lands of the Muslims, just as havoc was wreaked in 19th century Europe with these revolutionary movements in the name of that same slogan of "social justice".

Shaykh Rabee' bin Haadee on the Slogans of Communists, Freemasons, and the Groups of Innovation Involved in Revolutions

And Shaykh Rabee' bin Haadee said in his book (المحجة البيضاءفي حماية السنة الغراء من زلات أهل الاخطاء و زيغ أهل الأهوا), pages 9-10, speaking of how he various factions come out in the name of "justice":

And we have observed lessons from reality and from history, and there is no one reflecting and no one taking admonition except those upon whom Allaah has shown mercy and from them [these lessons] are: That every person of fitnah (tribulation, trouble), and every caller to misguidance, raises with all strength, the slogan of fairness and justice and equity.

The revolution (led by Abdullah bin Saba') against the righteous caliph [Uthmaan (radiallaahu anhu)], rather against Islaam, was in the name of justice. The revolution of al-Mukhtar bin Abee Ubayd, the heretic, was in the name of justice and equity. The revolution of Abu Muslim al-Khurasaanee was under the slogan of justice and stopping oppression (injustice). And the Freemasonic movements, they carried the slogan of "justice", "equality" and "freedom". And the Communist revolution was also under these slogans.

And all of them are deception, and deceitful (lying) slogans, may Allaah expose those calling with them, and uncover their veils, and humiliate them in this life before the hereafter.

Shaykh Saalih as-Suhaymee on the Realities of the Kharijites and Their Resemblance to Subversive Political Movements, Past and Present

And Shaykh Saalih as-Suhaymee also said in his lesson delivered on 14/11/2009, speaking about the Hoothees (Rafidi Shi'ah of Yemen), and about factions of people across the world who supported this tribulation:

Is there a Muslim in whose heart there is an atom's weight of faith who supports the tribulations against the Muslims in the likes of this time?!!! By Allaah, no! By Allaah a Muslim does not support this, and nor does a Muslim justify it. And sufficient is this faction with the faction of the Khawaarij that a side of them allied with a side of the renegade Khawaarij and with the Communists and with others besides them amongst the rebelling, renegade factions. So beware, and take caution and be fair and perceptive with regard to what is being stirred against Islam and the Muslims. Be intelligent, and do not be sentimentalists who are taken by sentiments, supporting scum behind whom is the Zionist Mossad and behind whom is world Freemasonry, and behind which is world disbelief, drum-beating (against Islam) from near and from far. Do not be deceived by the claims of that artificial enmity between the Zionists and those groups (the Khawaarij), for they are friends, ever since the time of Abdullaah bin Saba' until this day of ours. Thus, the Muslim is shrewd, intelligent, he should not be deceived by this idle chatter, and nor by these fibs and deviations, "But the evil plot encompasses only him who makes it" (Fatir 35:43)

The same Qabbalists that created Zionism in the 19th century are the same ones that created and supported the Marxist, Socialist, Communist, Leninist ideology. This was the secular materialist philosophy that was behind the global revival of the Khawaarij in the 20th in that its most fundamental tenets came through in Qutb's "Social Justice" and "Revolution", slogans which in a way were crystallized in Dhul Khuwaisarah at-Tamimi's statement "Be just...", and in Abdullaah bin Saba' al-Yahudi's activities against Uthman in the name of that same slogan of "justice".

And when you see the grandchildren of members of the ADL (Ashkenazi Jewish "Anti-Defamation League") such as Adam Gadahn Pearlman leading al-Qaeda's media arm and former Talmudists leading hordes of Muslims in calling for the instigation of (Marxist-Leninist) revolutions in the lands of the Muslims (see here) - all in the name of "social justice", then you've just got to re-reflect on the statement of Shaykh Salih as-Suhaymee a little while.

Shaykh Ubayd al-Jaabiree on Servants and Agents of the Freemasons

And Shaykh Ubayd al-Jaabiree said in his cassette (المجروحون), "The Disparaged" (2003):

As for Amr Khalid, then he is a rationalist, philosopher, he bases his directions (of advice) upon philosophy and rationalism, not upon the legislation, and thus it is obligatory to warn against these two, and from their likes, just as it is obligatory to warn against the satellite channels which host the likes of these (people) amongst the servants of the Freemasons and of the Raafidah, such as the likes of al-Qaradawi, for these are destructive, deviant channels, a war against Islam and its people, and I fear that the Jews are behind this ideology, and these callers, if they are not Freemasons, then they [at least] serve [the agenda] of the Freemasons, and they argue for them (i.e. in favor of their agenda).

The best way to destroy revealed religion is to create, or to prop up, or to make tactical use of deviant groups and sects, and in a modern context, you are looking at the Kharijite Takfiris, the Gnostic Esoteric Sufis, the Modernists, Rationalists and the Secularists (wearing the gown of Islaam), and they work on different fronts. For geographical subversion, the Kharijite Takfiris, for doctrinal spiritual subversion, the Esoteric Sufis, for moral,social subversion the Modernists, Rationalists and for legislative subversion, the Secularists, and all of these have their respective callers and ideologues.