Sheikh Fawzan addresses this accusation here:
This is a common thing- people accusing Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab. But according to this line, the modern Salafi scholars must be teaching a different form of Salafiyyah. If you look at Sheikh Fawzan and them, they clearly are not the same thing as groups like Al-Shabaab.
The Salafi scholars are staunchly against the ideology of groups like Al-Shabaab. They're against suicide bombing and they warn against revolt.
Also if Saudi Arabia was built on Al-Shabaab type ideology... why isn't it filled with Al-Shabaab???? It's a pretty peaceful country.
Anyways, I don't know all the details of the history of Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab but it is lying to claim that Al-Shabaab and Salafiyyah are the same.
Salafiyyah means you try to follow Islam as the earliest generations understood it. And this isn't a concept invented by Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab. Sheikh Ibn Taymiyyah was a Salafi I think about five hundred years before Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab was alive.
The video itself establishes the proof, since fawzan indeed affirms that miaw made takfir, question is what's the difference between their actions and that of groups like isis, alqaeda who also use the quran & sunnah to justify their takfir of muslims ?
The original khawarij who killed Uthman RA & Ali RA also used the quran & sunnah to justify their actions, what then ? Anyone person or group can make the claim that their actions are in line with the shariah while going against it, that's why it's important to establish if that claim of theirs is true or not by comparing it to the shariah. Only then can one establish if their actions are valid or not.
If i were to ask you where in the Quran or Sunnah does it say if a muslim seeks intercession from the deceased this is kufr or shirk ? since you agree with what fawzan said that miaw ONLY made takfir of those that Allah and His Messenger made takfir of, i want you know to bring explicit evidence where Allah and His Messenger say that intercession with the deceased is shirk/kufr
One of the most explicit examples that indicate miaw's deviation, is the claim that ONLY he alone knew the true meaning of
la ilaha illa’Llah; not even his teachers who taught him the deen. Forget his teachers no one knew what the shahadah meant before his time (ie before he was miraculously graced by God)
And I inform you of myself – by God, whom there is none deserving of worship save Him: I sought knowledge, and those who knew me believed I had knowledge whilst I did not know the meaning of la ilaha illa’Llah at that time, nor know the religion of Islam, before this goodness that God graced me with. Such was also the case with my teachers; there was no man among them who knew [any of] this. And if someone from the scholars of this and the surrounding areas claims he knew the meaning of la ilaha illa’Llah, or knew the meaning of Islam before this time, or claims about his teachers that someone from them knew that, then he has lied, uttered falsehood, hoodwinked the people, and praised him with something he doesn’t possess.
(Al-Durar al-Saniyyah, 10:51. )
What do you think the practical implication of such a belief is ? can you even imagine a scholar claiming this in our age, that no one understands meaning of shahada or islam except for himself ?
Miaw says the following in the introduction of his book
Mufid al-Mustafid fi Kufri Tarik al-Tawhid (“Benefit of the beneficiary regarding the kufr of the one who leaves Tawhīd”):
Among that which the Shaykh, the imām, the head among heads of guidance Muhammad ibn ‘Abdul-Wahhāb – rahimahullāhu ta’ālā – said: When some of those who claim to have knowledge from the people of ‘Uyaynah doubted (and) when the people of Huraymilā apostated, the Shaykh was asked to write some words with which Allāh would benefit him
He wrote this book after he had made Takfir upon a whole town in Najd (i.e. Huraymila`) and tried to justify it. Mind you the people of this city were supporters of his dawah, waged war on his behalf etc but after they changed their decision and stopped supporting his unjustied takfir this was enough to warant their kufr. Shockingly enough his brother sulayman was the qadi of this town.
Some examples of what miaw's dawah entailed
CHAIN TAKFIR
The second issue: To disbelieve in that which is worshipped instead of Allah, and this means to make Takfir (declare as disbelievers) upon the polytheists (Mushrikin) and the disavowal from them and that which they worship alongside Allah.
So whoever does not make Takfir upon the polytheists of the turkish state (i.e. the Ottomans!) and the grave-worshippers like the people of Makkah (!!!) and [upon] others from those who worship the righteous (Salihin) and left the Tawhid (monotheism) of Allah for Shirk (polytheism) and exchanged the Sunnah of his Messenger - sallalalhu 'alayhi wa sallam - with innovations, then he is a disbeliever like them even if dislikes their religion und hates them and loves Islam and its people.
This is so because the one who does not declare the polytheists to be disbelievers has not accepted the Qur`an. The Qur`an declares the polytheists as disbelievers, and commands to declare them as such and to show enmity towards them and to fight them."
(Al-Durar al-Saniyyah, 9/291 )
Killing the people of al-Ahsa`
Ibn Bishr (d. 1288 AH) said while speaking about the incidents of the year 1210 AH:
Then before the sunrise the Muslims (ie miaw followers ) shot with their rifles [all at] once, so that the earth trembled, and the heaven became dark, and smoke rose into the sky and many of the pregnant women (!!!) in al-Ahsa` had a miscarriage (due to extreme fear). Then Sa'ud settled in the [earlier] mentioned al-Raqiqah, so it was given to him. All of the people of al-Ahsa` [then] appeared in front of him in kindness and badness. He commanded them to leave so they left. He stayed there for [several] months [while] kiling whomever he wanted to kill, and exiling whomever he wanted to exile, and imprisoning whomever he wanted to imprison, and taking from the wealth, and destroying places, and building strongholds, and destroying houses and wanting thousands of Dirhams from them and taking it from them...
And Sa'ud killed many of them...
So this one [lies] killed in the land and that one is taken out to the tents and his neck is struck off near the tent of Sa'ud until he annhalited [all of] them except very few.
Sa'ud came into possesion of [much] wealth in this attack (Ghazwah) which can not be counted or numbered."
'Unwan al-Majd 1/216-217
The above is just tip of the iceberg as the najdi dawah led to mass takfir & killing of muslims in the arabian peninsular. Anyone who didn't accept the "teachings" of miaw was declared to be kafir, i ask how is this any different to what isis , alqaeda & alshabab are doing ?
Fawzan want's us to believe that the people of makkah, al ahsa etc were mushriks and wants to distinguish between the actions of najdis & that of daesh who believe exactly the same ie that current day makkah is a land of mushriks & kuffar.
When miaw & his followers made takfir of muslims the najdis were not khawarij but when daesh & co do it suddenly they're deemed to be khawarij ? what sort of nonsense is this ?