Innovations – Q3

Sufyan al-Thawri said: Satan prefers innovation to disobedience, because indeed one repents from disobedience but not from innovation. [Musnad Ibn al-Ja’d 1885 and Majmu’ al-Fatawa 11/472] Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyya, may Allah have mercy on him, said: The people of innovation are worse than the people of sins stemming from desire, as established by the Sunnah and consensus. [Majmu’ al-Fatawa 20/103]