What is your guidance for students of knowledge who delve into the issue of the claim that the Fire will cease to exist?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: Is it true that the book *Refutation of Those Who Say the Fire Will Cease to Exist, and Clarification of the Statements on That* is by the authorship of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, even though some have attributed to Shaykh al-Islam, in a doctoral dissertation, the claim that the Fire will cease to exist? What is your guidance for students of knowledge who delve into this issue, whether to know the stronger position, for discussion, or to refute those who claim that Shaykh al-Islam says the Fire will cease to exist?
Answer:
This is an issue that should not be publicized or brought out. And would one take it as a thesis? That is wrong. What is the point of it? He goes and publicizes it and searches for it?
I mean, seeking out obscure errors. This issue was not known to the people; they had forgotten it and left it alone, whether it was authentic from Shaykh al-Islam or not. It is left alone and not researched. Then people from these interlopers come and search for it, bring it out, and make it a field for debate and refutation. This is a source of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation).
Therefore, it is obligatory to leave the research into anomalies and anomalous statements and bringing them out to the people, circulating them. What is the benefit to the people in this? They have no benefit in it. So the best is to leave it, not mention it, and not research it. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: Is it true that the book *Refutation of Those Who Say the Fire Will Cease to Exist, and Clarification of the Statements on That* is by the authorship of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, even though some have attributed to Shaykh al-Islam, in a doctoral dissertation, the claim that the Fire will cease to exist? What is your guidance for students of knowledge who delve into this issue, whether to know the stronger position, for discussion, or to refute those who claim that Shaykh al-Islam says the Fire will cease to exist?
Answer:
This is an issue that should not be publicized or brought out. And would one take it as a thesis? That is wrong. What is the point of it? He goes and publicizes it and searches for it?
I mean, seeking out obscure errors. This issue was not known to the people; they had forgotten it and left it alone, whether it was authentic from Shaykh al-Islam or not. It is left alone and not researched. Then people from these interlopers come and search for it, bring it out, and make it a field for debate and refutation. This is a source of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation).
Therefore, it is obligatory to leave the research into anomalies and anomalous statements and bringing them out to the people, circulating them. What is the benefit to the people in this? They have no benefit in it. So the best is to leave it, not mention it, and not research it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [42 -954] ما توجيه فضيلتكم لطلاب العلم الذين يخوضون في مسألة القول بفناء النار..؟ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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