*sigh* I recall many a time when I had to give directions like "after gas station X, head north for a mile until you past the school/mosque with a white wall, then take the left fork in the road, and carry on for a couple of blocks until you see the big green house on the left with chevrons on the gates. Then take the very next right, and look for the large tan house with the 3 rocks placed on the compound wall, or green light outside, or the one with the blue chalk mark... if you see the shack with the tin roof, you've gone too far.
...they believed allah created the ruins and the evidence of irrigation/agriculture...
LOL... I believe it was allah's will that their neighborhoods got filled with craters too!
As for "innovations" and "innovators" (those guilty of "bidah") of things which are not in the koran or hadeeth, a humorous observation that some locals had about the salafi-types intimidation, demanding an end to harram western style influence, schools, institutions etc, on the grounds that they did not have or practice that during mohammads time - is the obvious fact that there were no AKs, Makarovs or car bombs in mohammads time either!
Ask the Imam...is it ok to fly an airplane into a building?
Yes my son...inshalla!