Explaining al-Ghazali's methodology in making his desires the judge and prioritizing them over the texts of the Book and the Sunnah.

The Shaykh : His narration, and with the entirety of what came at its end, it is not correct to say that Musa (peace be upon him) disliked death, nor is it correct to say, by implication, how it is conceivable that he would strike an angel and gouge out his eye, because he was in the form of a human being.
And so, all the hadiths that he rejects or mocks are cases where he makes his desire the judge, and this contradicts the saying of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and His saying (Blessed and Exalted is He) , along with many other verses that obligate every Muslim to submit the leadership of his heart and mind to Allah and His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), because, as stated in the Qur'an, . Therefore, from the day we commented on his book *Fiqh al-Sirah* and placed that introduction, its foul smell began to appear when he declared his methodology: that he might rule that an authentic hadith is not authentic, and that a weak hadith is authentic. You know what he mentioned in this introduction, and I had met him more than once, especially when we were in the Supreme Council of the Islamic University in Madinah al-Munawwarah. I said to him, "O Shaykh, you rejected the hadith of Ibn 'Umar because you understood from it that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) raided Banu al-Mustaliq without the call having reached them. Where did you get this from?"
The legal rulings are not taken from a single hadith. You know that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), when he intended a raid, would feint in another direction. Do you think he would inform the people and announce to them, "We are coming to raid you"? That is the notification and the warning. Otherwise, it is sufficient that he had warned them beforehand, whether a month, two months, a year, or two years ago; the important thing is that the call reached them, and they disbelieved and denied it, so he raids them when the means of raiding become available for him. Where did you get the idea that he raided them without warning? In the authentic hadith from Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), he said: . Similarly, he authenticated the hadith: , saying, "This is correct in meaning." We said to him, "Glory be to Allah! Is it necessary that every sentence or every wisdom that is correct in meaning must be authentic in its attribution to the Messenger (peace be upon him)?"
So, his saying (peace be upon him) : this poetry is his saying, or else the saying of the poets , meaning it is not from his speech, but it contains wisdom. If a wrongdoer or a liar attributes some beautiful and fine speech to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and we look at the meaning and find it sound, then we say, "The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said this." This is the extent of the deviation and straying from something like his saying (peace and blessings be upon him) . Perhaps we will suffice with this amount and ask Shaykh Sa'd to allow us to leave.