A refutation from Sheikh Fahd bin Muq'ad Al-Otaibi—may Allah preserve him—on the Houthis following their firing of missiles at Makkah Al-Mukarramah. رد قوي من الشيخ فهد بن مقعد العتيبي حفظه الله على الحوثي بعد إطلاقهم الصواريخ على مكة المكرمة

May Allah treat you well, esteemed Sheikh, and bless you. What do you say about what happened recently—we ask Allah for well-being—regarding the targeting of the holy sites and Mecca by the rejectionist Houthi sect, may Allah bless you?

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, and may Allah's peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, his family, his companions, and his followers. What happened from them is typical of them, and Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah in every time and place are accustomed to deceit and treachery from these people. Because the very foundation of the Rafidha's religion is deception against the people of Islam and plotting against them. Their targeting of the Two Holy Sanctuaries is not the first; they have always been people of conspiracy against the Two Holy Sanctuaries and their people from Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah. And what history books mention about the targeting of the Sacred House and the uprooting of the Black Stone during the era of the Qarmatian state has spread in the books, people knew about it, and through it, Allah, the Almighty and Majestic, exposed the plotting of the Rafidha. And the Jarudiyyah in this era are following their predecessors from the Qarmatians, who outwardly display rejectionism and inwardly conceal pure disbelief.

Who are the Jarudiyyah, O Sheikh? Clarify for us.

The Rafidha, some of the early scholars said of them: They outwardly show rejection, meaning: rejecting the two Sheikhs and the Companions, and speaking ill of the Mother of the Believers Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, while their inward reality is pure disbelief. And the Jarudiyyah are a sect of the Rafidha sects that initially affiliated itself, despite their small numbers, with the Zaydi sect, on top of the misguidance of the Zaydiyyah, in order to bolster their numbers through them. However, in reality, they are Twelvers, distorters of all the fundamentals of the religion. They are attributed to Abu al-Jarud, Ziyad ibn al-Mundhir, and it is also said: Ziyad ibn Munqidh al-Hamdani. It was said: al-Hamdani, and it was said: al-Thaqafi, and it was said: al-Hindi. This man was a known deviant in the era of the Followers. Yahya ibn Ma'in even said of him: "He is not worth a penny," and he used to fabricate Hadith against the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

And among the first to expose his malice and disassociate from his sect was the very one whom they claim to revere and venerate: Ja'far al-Sadiq ibn Muhammad al-Baqir ibn Ali Zayn al-Abidin—may Allah have mercy on you. For this reason, when his malice, deviance, and plotting against Islam and its people became apparent, Ja'far al-Sadiq called him "Surhub." And this label stuck to him; "Surhub" is the name of a blind creature that bites other creatures in the sea, meaning that he was blind in both sight and insight, and no one is safe from his evil. So after that, he came to be called "Surhub." Despite his deviance and wickedness, he had followers, and the people of misguidance continue to have followers. It has been mentioned in his biography that he was blind in sight and blind in insight. Blind, he could see nothing; he was born blind. Yet despite that, he was a person of harm, plotting, malice, and resentment against the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them.

And when his sect was rejected—no one wanted it and people fled from it—he took shelter under the umbrella of the Zaydiyyah, despite the misguidance of the Zaydiyyah. Then, when the wickedness of his doctrine and the malice of his intentions became apparent to some of the Zaydiyyah, they banished him from their ranks and disassociated themselves from his sect. And he gained followers. So the Jarudiyyah present today, their era is ancient, because this Abu al-Jarud perished in the year 160, and it was said: 150, meaning: he lived during the time of the Followers. However, his sect was rejected, yet they still have supporters from the esoteric sects, whether the Twelver Ja'faris... whether from the Ja'fari sect, the Isma'ili sect, or others. they are listeners for them." Meaning that the slogans raised by the Jarudiyyah are slogans that might have won over people's hearts in the outskirts of the country.

He does not find them openly declaring disbelief as they do now, nor does he find them displaying their malice and scheming as they do now, in terms of cursing, labeling, and other things, as well as making their intentions clear, and showing very apparent loyalty to the sect, to the... to the disbelievers, to the... Rafidis, and the... and the Persians, and others. So when their power grew, when their power grew, they unleashed their hands, unleashed their tongues, and showed contempt for all the treaties that exist between states, and they showed contempt for the sanctities and showed contempt for the Two Holy Mosques. And this is the beginning of their downfall.

And think well of Allah, that this is the beginning of their downfall. And the advocate of polytheism and innovation will never be... Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will never grant him victory over the callers to Monotheism. This state, praise be to Allah, is a state of Monotheism. The first and second Saudi states, and the state of the founder and his sons, they are all callers to Monotheism. None among them is a Rafidi, nor a Sufi, nor a member of a mystical order, nor a sectarian, nor anyone who calls to other than the Book and the Sunnah. Thus, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, does not grant the people of disbelief ultimate victory over the people of faith, never, just as He, Glorified and Exalted, said: {And never will Allah grant the disbelievers over the believers a way}. - A way - This will never happen. However, Allah tests the servants with one another, just as the disbelievers had a degree of dominance over the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, and some temporary triumph, yet Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has promised, and the promise of Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is binding and effective: {Allah has written: "I will surely overcome, I and My messengers."}, and He, Majestic is His glory, said: {Indeed, We will support Our messengers and those who believe}. So such matters, within their folds lie wisdoms and benefits: the surfacing of the disbelief that was concealed, and people coming to know the beliefs of these individuals, and that their beliefs have nothing to do with Islam. The Jarudiyyah do not have a single matter of Monotheism in which they agree with Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah; in fact, they do not even agree on it with even the sects of misguidance, not even the Ash'ari sects, who have a measure of misguidance; they do not have a creed in which they agree with the people of misguidance. So all their reli-... - So their creed is unique, O Sheikh? We ask Allah for well-being. - In the sense that they are extremists; Rafidis, Twelvers, extremists, deviated concerning the Book and... - Because the Jarudiyyah are the Houthis, the Houthis. - The affiliation to al-Houthi is recent, but what is meant is the affiliation to Abu al-Jarud. - Yes. - It is Kufr; they are disbelievers, they are not Muslims, and no one doubts their disbelief. They declare that openly; the one who does not spare any of the Companions from being labeled as astray and declared a disbeliever, and who speaks ill of 'A'ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, in front of all witnesses, and who attacks the infallibility of the Quran, and who negate the divine attributes, who... who do not... who believe in reincarnation and believe in the Return, they believe in the Return; all of these be-... a single one of them takes them out of Islam; a single one of their beliefs takes them out of Islam. -

So the Jarudiyyah are the Houthis themselves?

Yes, indeed.

In what you mentioned, you mean? In what you mentioned here?

The Jarudiyyah is the original affiliation; we said that Abu al-Ja-... - Yes. - Yes, yes, yes, they believe this, and there are books that have been printed, O brothers, before this... this emergence, there were books printed by some of the brothers from Yemen, they were perceptive regarding them from of old, among them Sheikh Muqbil ibn Hadi al-Wadi'i, they were perceptive regarding them from of old. And the general rule is that the people of Yemen are all Sunnis, yes, there are Zaydis among them, but the general rule is that most of them are from Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah, and that Sa'dah belongs entirely to the Sunnah. However, these people remained under the umbrella of Zaydism at the beginning until the matter escalated; then the political upheavals you know of took place, then they seized control of the state, and then they wrought havoc against the Muslims in their midst.

How many mosques of Ahl al-Sunnah have they demolished in Yemen? - Many. - The people of Yemen know that. How many graves of those they killed have they dug up? They killed them, then they dug up their graves to make use of the land; many. How much burning of mosques have they committed? And burning of Mushafs? The former president, they struck him with missiles while he was in the mosque, when he came to be treated here; Ali Abdullah Saleh, they harmed him with missiles while he was in the mosque; meaning that they showed no respect for the sanctity of the mosque, nor for the worshippers, and on a Friday.

Therefore, no one doubts their disbelief and misguidance, yet some of these upheav-... - I say: the reincarnation that you mentioned? so that it reveals the filthiness. He sifts them; no, situations sift them, so that the filthiness appears, "So that Allah may separate the wicked from the good," as Allah -Glorified and Exalted be He- said.

By Allah's leave, victory is near, God willing, and the men of Tawheed are in Yemen, God willing. We ask Allah to grant them success, and to make us and them steadfast, and to help them overpower them. However, it remains that a person should be discerning regarding such people. And this, this is an example of the factions of misguidance. This is a predominant description, my brothers, for all factions of misguidance, that they act softly with their innovation and do not show it until they have some authority; once they gain some authority, they manifest it. Allah, Glorified and Exalted be He, has said to the Companions—may Allah be pleased with them—while His Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was among them: "And among you are listeners to them."

There are those who lie in wait against this state. There is none upon the earth like this state whose leaders, both early and late, are upon Tawheed, like this state. And the good within the nation is plentiful, but in terms of those who hold the reins of authority, management, and po- politics of this state being upon Tawheed, for centuries, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has not granted it to other than this state: Muhammad bin Saud, then his son Abdulaziz bin Muhammad bin Saud, then his son Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Muhammad bin Saud, then Turki bin Abdullah, then Faisal bin Turki, then his sons, then the founding King—may Allah have mercy on them all—then his sons—may Allah have mercy on them—then King Salman, not one among them calls to other than the Quran and the Sunnah. And for this reason, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has united the hearts of the subjects and the ruler. And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will not leave His servants without... Praise be to Allah. May Allah have mercy on you. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, will not leave His servants to the people of misguidance and the people of disbelief.

"Allah has decreed: 'I will surely overcome, I and My messengers.'" "Indeed, We will support Our messengers and those who believe during the life of this world." We ask Allah, Mighty and Majestic, to make our country safe, Amen. and to spare the blood of the Muslims. Amen. The Prophet—peace and blessings of Allah be upon him—says: "It is not permissible for a Muslim to terrify a Muslim." And you see that the wicked launch rockets in the stillness of the night, and at Fajr prayer. And during Fajr prayer. Today during Fajr prayer. Even the Rafidah in Iran, during Ramadan, used to fire them while people were praying the night prayer. We ask Allah... Meaning that these people do not do not observe Allah, Mighty and Majestic, in what they do, nor do they observe even human ethics, even human ethics.

And Allah, Mighty and Majestic, has blessed this country and its politicians with wisdom, wisdom, deliberateness, insight into affairs, and discernment of their consequences. They make decisions at the appropriate time. And we ask Allah, Mighty and Majestic, to guide them, and to direct them, Amen. to correctness in speech and deed, and to grant them righteous advisors, Ameen. and to make our country safe and tranquil, along with all the lands of the Muslims. We ask Allah to spare the blood of the Muslims, Amen. and to humiliate polytheism and its adherents, disbelief and its adherents, and innovation and its adherents. Amen. And praise be to Allah in every condition. We ask Allah to bestow good. May Allah be good to you, bless you, and reward you with the best reward for this...