The Reality of the Science of Kalam and Its Most Prominent Scholars
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Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is the reality of the science of kalam? Who are the most prominent scholars of the science of kalam? And are there sects among them in this time? And may Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
The science of kalam is the science of logic based on premises and conclusions and debate. It was not known in the early days of Islam. The scholars relied on the Book and the Sunnah and the revealed revelation. When time passed after the blessed centuries, the science of kalam, debate, and logic occurred.
It is brought from the Greeks, taken from the disbelievers. It is not of the way of the Muslims, and religion is not built upon it; religion is not built upon it, and it is not used as evidence. Therefore, the scholars warned against it to the utmost degree of warning. It exists, and there are those who study it, and those who study it, and those who use it as evidence. It is, along with it, a false science. Because it abandons the Book and the Sunnah and argues using the rules of logic.
And the science of debate, this is turning away from the Book and the Sunnah. Allah revealed to us the Book and the Sunnah as guidance for the people. The Muslim argues using the Book and the Sunnah, and does not argue using the rules of logic and the science of debate, and does not prioritize them over the Book and the Sunnah. They call them rational proofs. But in reality, they are ignorances and doubts because they are the work of humans.
Because it is the work of human beings. As for the Book and the Sunnah, they are a revelation from the Wise, the Praiseworthy,[Fussilat 41:42]. So the people of knowledge and the people of the Sunnah do not use logic as evidence, nor do they rely on it. Rather, they use the Book and the Sunnah as evidence. Yes.
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is the reality of the science of kalam? Who are the most prominent scholars of the science of kalam? And are there sects among them in this time? And may Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
The science of kalam is the science of logic based on premises and conclusions and debate. It was not known in the early days of Islam. The scholars relied on the Book and the Sunnah and the revealed revelation. When time passed after the blessed centuries, the science of kalam, debate, and logic occurred.
It is brought from the Greeks, taken from the disbelievers. It is not of the way of the Muslims, and religion is not built upon it; religion is not built upon it, and it is not used as evidence. Therefore, the scholars warned against it to the utmost degree of warning. It exists, and there are those who study it, and those who study it, and those who use it as evidence. It is, along with it, a false science. Because it abandons the Book and the Sunnah and argues using the rules of logic.
And the science of debate, this is turning away from the Book and the Sunnah. Allah revealed to us the Book and the Sunnah as guidance for the people. The Muslim argues using the Book and the Sunnah, and does not argue using the rules of logic and the science of debate, and does not prioritize them over the Book and the Sunnah. They call them rational proofs. But in reality, they are ignorances and doubts because they are the work of humans.
Because it is the work of human beings. As for the Book and the Sunnah, they are a revelation from the Wise, the Praiseworthy,
Falsehood cannot approach it from before it or from behind it; [it is] a revelation from a [Lord who is] Wise and Praiseworthy.
لَّا يَأْتِيهِ الْبَاطِلُ مِن بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَلَا مِنْ خَلْفِهِ تَنزِيلٌ مِّنْ حَكِيمٍ حَمِيدٍ
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قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [5 /84] ما هي حقيقة علم الكلام؟ومن هم أبرز علماء علم الكلام؟ | الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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