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is this thread in keeping with the pledge of respect and mutual cooperation signed between salafi scholars and deobandi scholars?

Isnt it about time salafis and deobandis united together. Salafis consider deobandis to be the closest to the sunnah, they advocate studying fiqh with them, working with them in common good, no problems praying in their masajid, sending your children to their islamic schools, doing projects such as mosques, charity, dawah etc togrther, when teaching your theological views, advoiding any type of name calling or mentioning deobandi faults (basically teaching what you hold to be the truth instead of teaching what erors you believe others are upon) etc etc. I hope inshallah that at least some of you hold the same sentiments. Surely those muslims who attend hindu shrines and such like are more of a concern to you, differences between deobandis and salafis are very small in reality and i dont know why people have suddenly stopped acknowledging athari aqeedah as a valid aqeedah of ahlas sunnah considering imam ahmad ibn hanbali rahimahullah was neither an ashari nor maturidi. I actually think its quite dangerous, saudi arabia is a salafi nation with a lot of power and opposing them instead of uniting with them is only causing more weakness. Dont forget saudi supported the taliban despite taliban being deobandi.

Also arabic words can be differed over by scholars, riyadh us saliheen has thousands of hadeeths in there and you felt the need to start a whole thread on their translation while causing division and hatred towards them over a few hadeeth which they translate and interpret differently to you.

Please remember they only wipe over socks because they arrived at that conclusion from their fiqh, its not like they hold this oppinion with some agenda in mind, please respect scholarly discourse unless you want to be the deobandi version of madkhalis. I feel sad to think that last night i was sitting with, studying with, and eating with deobandis out of desire for unity and to benefit from my muslim brothers and meanwhile my own scholars were having their flesh eaten here over a few hadeeth that only centred around a few fiqh issues.

I myself follow the athari aqeedah but view it as a small theological difference between scholars, not an issue to divide over (like shirk, cursing companions, finality of the prophet, validity of shariah as a legal system etc).

Surely all salafi views are still within the pale of islam unlike many other sects