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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is wisdom known to creation?

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Question : Is wisdom known to creation?

Answer : The answer is that it may be known, and it may be unknown. But its being unknown does not mean it is not known; rather, it exists, but due to our deficiency or negligence, we have not reached it. When scholars do not know the wisdom behind a legal ruling, they call it a devotional ruling. A devotional ruling.
Therefore, if someone asks you, "What is the wisdom in the fact that the Zuhr prayer is four units rather than eight?" This is devotional; the intellect has no place in it. This is devotional. They say that if you know the wisdom of a ruling, it is a rational ruling, meaning it has meaning along with the devotion to Allah in it. And if you do not know it, it is a what?
A devotional ruling. We have nothing before it but devotion. And which is stronger in devotion: complying with a devotional ruling or with a rational ruling that has meaning? The first is more severe. The first is more eloquent in humility: to accept the ruling even if you do not know its wisdom.
This is more eloquent, because for a person not to accept a ruling unless he knows its wisdom involves a type of shirk (associating partners with Allah), which is the worship of desire. That is, if a thing agrees with his desire and he grasps its wisdom, he accepts it, feels at ease with it, and is satisfied with it. But if it does not, he becomes hesitant about it.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، [36] هل الحكمة معلومة للخلق - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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