From his perception that shirk had spread widely in the Muslim community, Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb drew the opposite conclusion of the one drawn by Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn al-Qayyim. For him, the diffusion of shirk was justification not for discretion but for urgent action in the all-important pursuit of eradicating shirk. Thus Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb generally did not display the same qualms about condemning everyday Muslims as unbelievers.
