The answer to the statement of those who say: “Stick to the books of jurisprudence and leave the books of exegesis”
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Question : Yahya. We have reached the topic of the caliphate. You prioritize their books over the Qur'an. Among the Muslims today, there are people who value, meaning, reading exegesis. They say they fall into what remains
Answer : Karim, what is it? Yes. Because exegesis contains, and the Qur'an contains, what is abrogated and what is abrogating, what is general and what is specific, and we do not know this. I have stopped. By Allah, but I do not think so, because those who say “stick to the books of jurisprudence” do not deny that the Shari'ah is truth and that Allah is truth, but they have committed a great error in telling people to turn away from exegesis to the books of jurists. If only they had said “to the books of hadith scholars,” it would have been less severe. It is obligatory for a person, in my view, to begin with reflecting on the Qur'an. Before anything else, and the Qur'an contains goodness and blessing,[Sad 38:29],
Answer : Karim, what is it? Yes. Because exegesis contains, and the Qur'an contains, what is abrogated and what is abrogating, what is general and what is specific, and we do not know this. I have stopped. By Allah, but I do not think so, because those who say “stick to the books of jurisprudence” do not deny that the Shari'ah is truth and that Allah is truth, but they have committed a great error in telling people to turn away from exegesis to the books of jurists. If only they had said “to the books of hadith scholars,” it would have been less severe. It is obligatory for a person, in my view, to begin with reflecting on the Qur'an. Before anything else, and the Qur'an contains goodness and blessing,
[This is] a blessed Book which We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], that they might reflect upon its verses and that those of understanding would be reminded.
كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ مُبَارَكٌ لِّيَدَّبَّرُوا آيَاتِهِ وَلِيَتَذَكَّرَ أُولُو الْأَلْبَابِ
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قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، [464] الجواب عن قول من يقول: (عليكم بكتب الفقه وترك كتب التفسير) - الشيخ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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