People need to understand there is a different between Aqeeda/belief and Fiqh and other opinions. The aqeedah in Allah almighty, Holy Prophet peace be upon him etc cannot be changed. The modern movements try to ignore the early Islam and try to invent their own ideas of a new modern Islam. However with their tongue they claim we follow early Islam, they make major mistakes in the Quran and Hadith translations and then claim we follow Quran and Sunnah. If you compare their translations, after 10odd years they keep coming with new meanings and suddenly their beliefs change.
The Sunni Sufis have centuries old Quran and Hadith translations, its called classical Islam. I believe all Muslims need to follow classical Islam when we were the one of the strongest powers of the world. But no these modern movements chose to ignore all history and then come out with new translations of the quran with major mistakes.
This is like orthodox Christians v Catholics v Church of England situation. The Salafis wahabis are the Protestants. A modern reformist movement which disagrees with the classical Islam, they translate Quran and Hadith according to their needs and twist everything to suit themselves. A religious political movement which will toe any line to reach power. From terrorism and kufr fatwas against the Ottomans to fake jihad (terrorism), to alliance with the British.
The sunni sufis only make mistakes on their actions like being lazy, not being organised, following fake rituals, have alot of jahil followers who are not religious. The Salafis have educated people practising contract marriages, holiday marriages, fighting wars for the west etc.
Wahhabi birth is in Saudi, but Wahhabi itself is just similar like Ibnu Taimiyah teaching. Ibnu Taimiyah is much older than Wahhabi.
What I mean is that Muhammadiyah does get inspired by Wahhabism from Saudi, but Saudi as nation is emerged since 1932, while Muhammadiyah birth is 1927.
Wahhabi that we saw Today has linked to the Kingdom of Saudi, as well as Wahabi movement that happen in modern days usually they are favors Saudi ( I see my friends who follow Wahabi from this Saudi roots )
But Muhammadiyah that also uses Salafi ( Wahabi) teaching doesnt have the link with Wahhabi movement in Saudi after Saudi as a state is emerge.
Muhammadiyah is not fanatic follower, they see good thing from Wahhabi ( which is basically not different with Ibnu Taimiyah teaching -Salafi ), and also mixing it with Islam Modernist movement that also happen in Muslim world at that time
I understand what your saying. The Ahle Hadith and Deobandis emerged in Pakistan before Saudi Arabia. But read about the birth of Ibn Abdul Wahhab Najdi, the holy jihad against ottomans, declaring ummah as mushrikeen, the first saudi state etc. So the movement is there before Saudi Arabia.
Al Muhammadiyah is like the MB or Jamat e Islami of Pakistan. They are university educated modernist people, who go with the flow. If tomorrow a new powerful religious movement emerges then they will start to follow them. They go where the gold is.
Ibn Taymiyah was a sufi but he made some mistakes on certain issues. Read the books he wrote on sufism, he talks about miracles of the sufis and believes in them. The wahabis translate his books but take out which they don't like, they have the petro dollars. They also translate old qurans but take out which they don't like. They have absolutely nothing to do with the early Islam.
