As a result, many of the youth in the Kingdom were affected by these Hizbis. My evidence for this is that the dominance was with them. When Shaykh Ibn Baz would

No rational person denies that they had control over the youth and many from the common people, the general masses. They are a ticking time bomb—one that may explode. But the state is firm—otherwise, if they were left unchecked, by Allah, they would have corrupted the land, just as those amongst us (i.e. The Ikhwanis) corrupted Yemen, and they changed much of the good that the Yemeni lands once enjoyed. These individuals are criminals—a tool in the hands of the enemies of the religion. The people are more affected by the emotional types than they are by the scholars—aside from reasonable students of knowledge. The general public is especially swayed, particularly by those who speak against governments. In their eyes, that is the hero—the one who criticises rulers and presidents. That is the brave man, the courageous one. And the one who does not is considered cowardly, a collaborator, and so on. That is the people's standard and measure. The aforementioned shaykh, ‘Abdurrazzaq, was indeed influenced by them. The proof is in his visits to them. They exploit those who have compassion and softness in them—they may lure them to their side. At the very least, they silence them and anesthetise them. The least they seek is to numb their stance. The person is left helpless, and may even be made to speak against the Salafis. The Salafi da’wah, which was once upheld by certain individuals, has truly been struck—struck due to poor conduct, inappropriate character, foolishness, and due to infiltrators from some intelligence services. They struck the Salafi da’wah and distorted it. As a result, it became a distorted da’wah. When its scholars are mentioned, people recoil from them like frightened donkeys. The reason is that people who were not truly from them infiltrated their ranks, distorted their image, and distorted their da’wah. These people claimed to love the Salafi da’wah, yet they divided and scattered it. They divided them and tore them apart. They turned the scholars of Makkah into one group and the scholars of Madinah into another, and the scholars of such-and-such place into yet another. So how, then, can the people unite around you? How can the people come together around you? People saw in the Hizbis a form of agreement and harmony, so they were drawn to them. Fear Allah with regard to the da'wah! Even we—those who carry the Salafi da'wah in Yemen—have not been spared from you. After they managed to dismantle your da'wah in the Kingdom, they sought to use you to attack other da'wahs in lands beyond that one. And indeed, they would have succeeded had Allah not granted His protection. Allah, the Exalted, protected (the da'wah), and you did not succeed in Yemen. You managed to take a few people in the beginning, but the da'wah later became independent, and it flourished and prospered. Its goodness increased and its strength grew—due to what Allah knows, as we presume, of their sincerity. And Allah gathered their scattered ranks and unified their hearts after a very difficult fragmentation. He blessed them with students, institutes, and scholars.