Salam alaykum, There are three debates on subject of Istighathah, - https://www.islamimehfil.com/topic/...ah-and-on-hadith-o-servants-of-allah-help-me/ - https://www.islamimehfil.com/topic/...-allah-istighathah-tawheed-shirk-and-worship/ - https://www.islamimehfil.com/topic/...hirk-without-ilahiyyah-and-niyyah-of-worship/ Week ago another refutation was received by a Salafi to which i haven't responded yet. After responding i am hoping he would accept my offer for a written discussion on subject of istighathah. Read them in order n inshallah you ill find these more beneficial over camera recorded debate/discussions.
Salam alaykum, Story of Prophet Ibrahim alayhis salam being thrown in fire comes to my mind. Ahadith record there was no creature that didn't attempt to put the fire out except gecko. Birds, insects, everything that could tried. They weren't going to succeed in putting it out. What would a bird have acieved in his effort to put the fire out! All did their part as if saying, WE DIDN'T STAND AND DO NOTHING TO HELP. Thats all our boycott do, we are powerless to do anything but despite it we didn't do nothing we tried hurting the enemy and his allies in one or another way however little it was. Our boycott is display of fraction of Iman above saying in our hearts and mind its wrong.
Agreed it is not only Shaykh Asrārs job but who he is the most likely to get an answer out these deviants.
as the current Ghazzah conflict has stripped naked the najdis and their minions, it is a genuine waste of time refuting madkhali clowns and zionist mouthpieces like shamsi. the guy calls boycott* of israeli products as haram and has become thoroughly zaleel in wahabi circles with any wahabi worth his weight in ibn taymiyyah's majmu3 al-fatawa or 3aqidah al-waasitiyyah. what Sunnis need right now is some strategic direction in education and rebuttals of deviants, aside from the rattafication radd of wahabis that they haven't properly mugged up from the books of elders. we all need strong grounding in kalam and aqidah and need to be abreast with modern deviancies (perennialism, lgbt, democracy etc.) and trends within DEVIANTS (wahabis, devbandis, et.) themselves. for example, just yesterday i learnt that tarik zaleel has a visa ban in south africa - as other hard core south african devbandis themselves complained to the authorities that he's a fitnah monger or dajjal or something! apparently, they're more hard core thanvi fans and don't like the muhannad or tarik zaleel's antics of getting chummy with all and sundry! masha Allah Shaykh Asrar is one Sunni who makes the distinction between the madkhali/modernist super-juhalaa wahabis and actual hard core ibn taymiyyah blind muqallids who aren't puppets of khaleeji sheikhs, and deals with them differently. i may be wrong but i've seen almost no other tanatan urdu/punjabi speakers who even know of this trend, much less use it to their advantage for Muslim & Sunni interests. shamsi only needs to be pitted against the blind muqallids of ibn taymiyyah and we only need to focus our energies on refuting them. just my thoughts. *ironically, i too at a personal level don't think boycotts have much/any practical & tangible strategic benefit for Muslim interests; neither can they be consistent with all products/services, but that's in an operational and strategic sense, i embrace with open arms all brothers who endorse boycotts. that said most of the stuff that most people say needs to be boycotted, already doesn't exist in my default settings. i'm a very as-needed/liked and no-brand-names consumer. my wife only had to stop buying some starbucks supermarket blend that she liked when she implemented the boycott in my house
I didn't watch it yet but I'm told he calls us mushriks and attacks Imams Abu Hanifah and Malik. In fairness, it isn't only Shaykh Asrar's job to reply to wahabi YouTubers.