The Saudi State Upon Salafiyah

King AbdulAzeez Aal as-Sa’ood (died: 1953) said:

" They call us Wahhabis, they call our way Wahhabism as if it is something specific [to us]; this is a clear error… We are not a people of a new school of thought, or a new creed. Muhammad Ibn AbdulWahhaab did not come with anything new. Our creed is the creed of the righteous predecessors which has been narrated in the Book of Allah, the Sunnah of the Messenger. It is what the early righteous Muslims (the Salaf) were upon. We respect and honour the four Imaams, with us there is no difference between Maalik, Shaafi’ee, Ahmad and Abu Haneefah."

(In a sermon he delivered to the pilgrims in Hajj 11 of May, 1929. This has been reported in the Arabic book: ﺩﻋﻮﺓ ﺍﻹﻣﺎﻡ ﻣﺤﻤﺪ ﺑﻦ ﻋﺒﺪ ﺍﻟﻮﻫﺎﺏ ﺳﻠﻔﻴﺔ ﻻ ﻭﻫﺎﺑﻴﺔ )

Shaikh Ahmad Bin Umar Bin Saalim Baazmool (may Allaah preserve him) quoted Shaikh Saaleh Al-Luhaydaan (may Allaah preserve him) who said:

This country is the heart of Islaam and its sanctuary. It has been blessed with many affairs of peace and security whose match is not found in the world. There is no doubt that it is unrestrictedly the best of governments in this world.

And this neither means that it is (perfect) nor that anyone says that it is perfect, rather it has mistakes and we have mistakes; however it is the best of governments upon the face of the earth. And for that reason, it is incumbent upon every Muslim within and outside of it to supplicate for it to be upon firmness, strong upon truth and giving assistance to the oppressed.

And the reason (for its success) is that it has remained upon the Pure Creed of of Tawheed, and because it establishes the prescribed Islamic legislated laws when the conditions for its establishment are fulfilled.

[Source: Dawlatu at-Tawheed Was-Sunnah: page: 14]