The reason the author did not cover all the chapters of creed in the treatise
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Question:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Ibn Abi Talib (may Allah have mercy on him) did not divide this creed, because whoever asked him about this important creed, he mentioned from it by way of wisdom, the difference between friendship and enmity, and reports of poetry.
Answer:
He is one who doubts that he mentions all the chapters of creed in this treatise; rather, he took an important aspect and dealt with it. As for the other aspects mentioned by the questioner, they are found in the simplified and detailed books of creed. So let the questioner refer to the detailed books. The detailed books of the Sunnah. He should refer to them; these chapters are in them.
So it is incumbent upon the author, if a person writes or writes a book, to investigate what pertains to this discipline. But he takes the issue that he sees as an island in the research.
And since the Shaykh was in a time when the authority of the Mu'tazilah and the Asha'irah appeared, and the hypocrisy regarding the attributes, he focused on this aspect and clarified it to the utmost extent. As he also focused on the aspect of worshipping graves and shrines and the Sufis in other treatises and in other books. Yes.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Ibn Abi Talib (may Allah have mercy on him) did not divide this creed, because whoever asked him about this important creed, he mentioned from it by way of wisdom, the difference between friendship and enmity, and reports of poetry.
Answer:
He is one who doubts that he mentions all the chapters of creed in this treatise; rather, he took an important aspect and dealt with it. As for the other aspects mentioned by the questioner, they are found in the simplified and detailed books of creed. So let the questioner refer to the detailed books. The detailed books of the Sunnah. He should refer to them; these chapters are in them.
So it is incumbent upon the author, if a person writes or writes a book, to investigate what pertains to this discipline. But he takes the issue that he sees as an island in the research.
And since the Shaykh was in a time when the authority of the Mu'tazilah and the Asha'irah appeared, and the hypocrisy regarding the attributes, he focused on this aspect and clarified it to the utmost extent. As he also focused on the aspect of worshipping graves and shrines and the Sufis in other treatises and in other books. Yes.
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شرح العقيدة الواسطية [ صالح الفوزان ] [ الشرح القديم ]، الإيمان بما وصف الله به نفسه في كتابه — islamhouse.com (59:34)
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