The reason the people of the Sunnah do not declare the Asha'irah to be disbelievers
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Why did the people of the Sunnah and the community not declare the Asha'irah to be disbelievers, even though they affirm only seven attributes and deny the rest?
Answer:
The Asha'irah affirm, they affirm some of the attributes; they affirm seven or fourteen, and they deny, they affirm the rational attributes, in their claim, and they deny the textual attributes, because the textual proofs do not yield certainty in their view; rather, what yields certainty is the rational ones, in their claim. And they did not declare them disbelievers because they are those who engage in figurative interpretation (ta'wil) and follow one another in blind imitation (taqlid), so they ward off the declaration of disbelief from them.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Why did the people of the Sunnah and the community not declare the Asha'irah to be disbelievers, even though they affirm only seven attributes and deny the rest?
Answer:
The Asha'irah affirm, they affirm some of the attributes; they affirm seven or fourteen, and they deny, they affirm the rational attributes, in their claim, and they deny the textual attributes, because the textual proofs do not yield certainty in their view; rather, what yields certainty is the rational ones, in their claim. And they did not declare them disbelievers because they are those who engage in figurative interpretation (ta'wil) and follow one another in blind imitation (taqlid), so they ward off the declaration of disbelief from them.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [674 -1024] سبب عدم تكفير أهل السنة للأشاعرة - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.