The Evidence for the Necessity of Understanding the Book and the Sunnah According to the Understanding of the Righteous Predecessors
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: What is the evidence that we are required to understand the Book and the Sunnah? What is the evidence that we are required to understand the Book and the Sunnah according to the understanding of the Righteous Predecessors?
Answer:
Yes.[Muhammad 47:24] [Sad 38:29] Reflection is required, and the Righteous Predecessors are further from religious innovation and further from ignorance. Their understanding is more precise than our understanding and the understanding of those who came after them.
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: What is the evidence that we are required to understand the Book and the Sunnah? What is the evidence that we are required to understand the Book and the Sunnah according to the understanding of the Righteous Predecessors?
Answer:
Yes.
Then do they not reflect upon the Qur'an, or are there locks upon [their] hearts?
أَفَلَا يَتَدَبَّرُونَ الْقُرْآنَ أَمْ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبٍ أَقْفَالُهَا[This is] a blessed Book which We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], that they might reflect upon its
كِتَابٌ أَنزَلْنَاهُ إِلَيْكَ مُبَارَكٌ لِّيَدَّبَّرُوا آيَاتِهِ
Source
شرح فتح المجيد 020-06-1437هـ — af.org.sa (1:17:34)
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