the aicp usa has as guides the qur’an and the sunnah of prophet muhammad and the path of the islamic scholars like imam ash-shafi^iyy, imam malik, imam ahmad and imam abu-hanifah. unlike the followers of sayyid qutub who deviated from the right path by following an erroneous idea that sprung fifty years ago, and unlike the followers of muhammad ibn ^adbil-wahhab who deviated from the right path by following an erroneous idea that sprung two hundred years ago, unlike them we are following the right path of the prophet, his companions and their followers.