Tenth point : The Abstaining Group (Ath-Thaaifa Al-Mumthani'a)

Adnani presented in his speech "Apology oh leader of Al Qaida" which was a reply to Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri, the ways for reconciliation and for ending this division and fragmentation.

And from amongst the points which he presented for it was "Correcting the Manhaj" and openly proclaiming the apostasy of the Egyptian, Pakistani and Afghan armies!

So we say: Does Adnani here mean the Kufr of the group or Kufr of the individuals of this group?! (1)

If he said of the group, then it is known that Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri considers these groups to be groups of Kufr and apostasy as mentioned in his tape "The Thaghut" which is available in the site "Minbar u Tawheed Wal Jihad" and issued as a document with the title "Jihad against the Thaghut is a divine path which does not change" which is one of the documents of the group Egyptian Jihad which was fighting the Egyptian regime at that time, and in it the abstaining group was described with the following:

"And this particular group which belongs to these apostate rulers takes their same ruling, and it is an apostate group just like the rulers, and we look at them as a group, and not as individuals in how we deal with them and in the rules of fighting against them, despite there being the possibility that there are within this particular apostate group which belongs to the rulers, individuals who are Muslims and are excused based on legitimate excuses. As for the one for whom these excuses are not valid anymore and remained supporting this regime ... , then he himself is an apostate just like them."

But if he said that what he meant is the issue of not making Takfeer on the individuals of this group - and this is indeed what they actually meant as they have stated in their official magazine "Dabiq", in the sixth issue (in footnote on page 20), that there is consensus of the Salaf that there can be no distinction between the group and its individuals!! And they said: "Al Zawahiri differentiates between a group and its individual members when it comes to the label of Kufr and some of its rulings. And this distinction is against the Ijma' of the Salaf concerning the groups which have rallied together upon Kufr like supporting shrines and man-made laws .... So we judge the individual of the group to be a Kaafir individual".