What is your opinion regarding the scholars who supported the Arab revolutions—such as Sheikh Muhammad Hassan and others? Is that considered a rebellion against the ruler? And is the issue of rebellion against the ruler one of the fundamentals of religion or its branches, and is its prohibition a matter of consensus? What is your opinion of those who say that Sheikh Rabee' is the bearer of the banner of al-Jarh wal-Ta'deel (discrediting and accrediting narrators)? And are he and his companions justified in their deeming many scholars as innovators and fasiqs (transgressors)?

The website is not concerned with evaluating individuals. Our view regarding scholars known for their goodness and propagation of the Sunnah is that it is obligatory to love them and to have a good opinion of them, overlooking their mistakes as long as their virtues outweigh them. We warn against slandering people in general and specific individuals among them, for exaggeration in criticism and declaring others innovators is not from the methodology of the people of knowledge. We affirm that no one is infallible from error, and what is obligatory is moderation: neither abandoning the scholar for his mistake nor being fanatically devoted to him. As for armed rebellion against rulers, its ruling has been clarified. Unarmed protest to command rulers to be just and to rectify injustices is not considered the kind of rebellion that scholars discuss.