Summary of Sunni concepts
The temptation of turning things around and calling things by other than their proper names
This is a blind sedition, in which those who invalidate truth present themselves as falsehood, and falsehood as truth
They make the ugly good and make the good ugly by cunning methods in which they embellish speech and manipulate terminology
This temptation is the evidence of his saying, may God bless him and grant him peace
Years of deception come upon people
The liar is believed and the truthful is lied to
The traitor is trusted and the trustworthy is betrayed
It is pronounced bitter and white
It was said, O Messenger of God, and from Ruwaibidah
The insignificant man said he was talking about the common people
Narrated by Al-Hakim, Ibn Majah, and Ahmad, and authenticated by Al-Albani
Among the contemporary forms of turning things around and calling things by other than their names are the following
Calling wine a spiritual drink
Usury is called interest
Fun competitions are called championships
And calling the infidel another
Changing God’s creation is called beautification
Calling bribery a gift
Calling expatriate Muslims foreigners
And naming corrupt institutions as tourist entertainment
Calling the legal rulings customs and traditions
Al-Ruwaibidhat is called Excellence, Happiness, and Highness
And naming excise duties and financial grievances as taxes and customs
Calling the mujahideen resisting the occupiers terrorists
And naming famous fallen men and women as stars
The change in the fundamentals of religion is called the renewal of religious discourse
Calling the hostility and hatred of infidels exclusion and spreading hatred
Labeling hypocrisy and flattery with wisdom, living reason, and love of peace
Calling the decisions of the Security Council and the International Court “international legitimacy.”
Calling Christianization “proselytization,” the Christians “Christians,” and the Jews “Israelis.”
The corruptors call themselves reformers and the reformers call the corrupters
Calling enjoining good and forbidding evil interfering in the affairs of others and sedition
And justifying the abandonment of the legal rulings and religious rulings by facilitation and necessity
And correcting the religion of the Jews and Christians under the name of a new religion which they called Abrahamism
And calling the sincere supplicants who support the doctrine of loyalty and disavowal in God extreme extremists
Limiting the harassment and adultery of a woman to cases of her lack of consent and rape
But if it was with her consent, then there is no harassment or adultery