Benefit: Be Salafee Upon the Path

From the introduction -

An example of the usage and meaning of the term Salaf:

There is no doubt that this da’wah (salafiyyah) is the true da’wah and ascription to it is correct. Shaykhul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah, rahimahullaah, said:

There is no blame on the one who outwardly manifests, ascribes himself, and attributes himself to the madh-hab of the Salaf. Rather, it is an obligation to accept that from him by consensus. For indeed the madh-hab of the Salaf is nothing but the truth.[1]

[1] Majmoo’ Al-Fataawaa, 4/149.

Later in the introduction, some quotes are mentioned from King 'Abdul-'Azeez Ibn 'Abdur-Rahmaan Aali-Sa'ood concerning the Islamic history of Saudi Arabia:

Rather, this nation, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, may Allaah safeguard it, is a Salafee nation and its da’wah is a Salafee da’wah just as its King, ‘Abdul-‘Azeez Ibn ‘Abdur-Rahmaan Aali-Sa’ood, rahimahullaah, has textualized in his address which he gave during the Hajj in 1365H (1945). He said: “Verily I am a Salafee man and my ‘aqeedah is Salafee, upon which I traverse along with what it entails upon the Book and the Sunnah.”

He said within the same address:

They say that we are Wahhaabees, while the reality is that we are Salafiyyoon—vanguards of our religion—and we follow the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) and there is not between us and the Muslims except the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam).[1]

[1] Al-Mushaf was-Sayf, pg.136.