Questioner:

When we warn from the people of innovation and desires there are certain people say to us: “Fear Allāh, seek knowledge and leave refutations.” So is spreading refutations and warning from the people of innovation from piety?

Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Yaḥya al-Najmi:

Refuting the people of innovation is from the greatest form of piety and from the greatest type of Jihād for the sake of Allah. Those who say this are either ignoramuses or people of desires.