the book and the sunnah, under the guise of the book and the sunnah and the obligation to return to them. He dedicated a chapter to this and another chapter to innovation and its condemnation, asserting its universality. One might think, without closely examining his words and what he quotes from scholars to support his impossible views, that he is a Salafi or Athari, as he claims, one hundred percent! However, the reality testified by his book is that he is a Khalafi Muʿtazili from the people of whims. In addition, he is ignorant of the sunnah and ḥadīths, with a severe weakness in the Arabic language and its literature, to the extent that he is almost like a commoner. Despite this, he is deluded by his knowledge, impressed with himself, and does not value the imams of the Salaf who opposed his title, such as Imām Aḥmad, Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Qayyim, al-Ṭabarī, Ibn Kathīr, al-Qurṭubī, Imām al-Shawkānī, and Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān al-Qannūjī, accusing them of blind imitation! This is based on the principle of "She accused me of her own ailment and withdrew," which confirmed to me that we are in a time when some of the signs of the Hour have manifested, including his saying (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): "And the foolish will speak in public affairs." It was said: What is the foolish? He said: A worthless man who speaks in the affairs of the public." (1) Similar is the saying of ʿUmar (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu): "The corruption of religion occurs when knowledge comes from the young, and the elder finds it difficult to accept, and the people's rectitude occurs when knowledge comes from the elder, and the young follow him." (2) And how numerous are these (young ones) who speak in the affairs of Muslims with profound ignorance, and it was not long ago that another Egyptian authored a work prohibiting the niqāb for Muslim women! And a third Jordanian authored a work weakening the saying of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): "Adhere to my sunnah and the sunnah of the rightly-guided successors..