Is this a correct rule: If you are described as lenient by an extremist and described as extreme by a lenient person, then know that you are upon the Sunnah?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is this phrase correct: If you are described as lenient by an extremist, and described as extreme by a lenient person, then know that you are upon the Sunnah. Is this a correct rule?
Answer:
Yes, this is correct. If the one who describes you as extreme is a lenient person, or the one who describes you as lenient is from the extremists, then you are right, if Allah wills. Because you are not pleasing them; you are not pleasing these or those. The strict ones say that you are lenient, and the lenient ones say that you are strict. So you are not seeking the people's approval of you; you are seeking the approval of your Lord, Glorified and Exalted is He.
Always consider the approval of your Lord, and do not care about anyone. And do not say anything except with knowledge; do not answer anything from yourself or your understanding.
And you answer with words regarding Allah that the Salaf did not say, like this person who asks and says that the Throne is carried by His power. Who said this? Does Allah carry the Throne? This implies disbelief, may Allah protect us from it. Yes, I say: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.[Fatir 35:41] He is the One who holds it; it is not the one that holds Him. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is this phrase correct: If you are described as lenient by an extremist, and described as extreme by a lenient person, then know that you are upon the Sunnah. Is this a correct rule?
Answer:
Yes, this is correct. If the one who describes you as extreme is a lenient person, or the one who describes you as lenient is from the extremists, then you are right, if Allah wills. Because you are not pleasing them; you are not pleasing these or those. The strict ones say that you are lenient, and the lenient ones say that you are strict. So you are not seeking the people's approval of you; you are seeking the approval of your Lord, Glorified and Exalted is He.
Always consider the approval of your Lord, and do not care about anyone. And do not say anything except with knowledge; do not answer anything from yourself or your understanding.
And you answer with words regarding Allah that the Salaf did not say, like this person who asks and says that the Throne is carried by His power. Who said this? Does Allah carry the Throne? This implies disbelief, may Allah protect us from it. Yes, I say: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
holds the heavens and the earth, lest they cease
يُمْسِكُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ أَن تَزُولَا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [970 -1024] هل هذه قاعدة صحيحة: إذا وصفت بالتساهل من غال ووصفت بالغلو من متساهل فأعلم أنك على السنة؟ — youtube.com
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