What is the difference between the people of Kalam and the philosophers?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the difference between the people of Kalam and the philosophers?
Answer:
There is a difference between them. The philosophers are those who claim wisdom and interpret the phenomena of the universe with interpretations of their own that no one else has interpreted. As for the scholars of Kalam, they take the science of logic and rely on it for argumentation; they rely on it for argumentation. Yes. And this is found in the books of the beliefs of the Asha'irah, the Maturidiyyah, and the Mu'tazilah. In any of them, you will not find a verse or a hadith. You will find them all to be rational arguments, dialectics, and logical rules, which they call rational proofs. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the difference between the people of Kalam and the philosophers?
Answer:
There is a difference between them. The philosophers are those who claim wisdom and interpret the phenomena of the universe with interpretations of their own that no one else has interpreted. As for the scholars of Kalam, they take the science of logic and rely on it for argumentation; they rely on it for argumentation. Yes. And this is found in the books of the beliefs of the Asha'irah, the Maturidiyyah, and the Mu'tazilah. In any of them, you will not find a verse or a hadith. You will find them all to be rational arguments, dialectics, and logical rules, which they call rational proofs. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [657 /1350] ما الفرق بين أهل الكلام والفلاسفة؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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