The Correct Creed Is: Allah Said, His Messenger Said, Following the Methodology of the Righteous Predecessors.
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The Shaykh : Then, this place differs; there is a place of good and a place of evil. As you know from his saying (peace and blessings be upon him), when he was asked about the best of places and the worst of places, he answered with his saying (peace and blessings be upon him): Al-Mustadrak lil-Hakim 2:17. Do you not see that the mosque is a place? Is the market not a place? Are there not toilets in the market? Are there not toilets and places of fornication and the like in some of the lands of the disbelievers? Are there not ... and sewers for filth? These are all places. Is Allah (Mighty and Majestic) in these places? Glorified is Allah above what the wrongdoers say, in great exaltation. Therefore, the correct creed is that we understand all the verses as the Righteous Predecessors interpreted them. That is why we constantly and eternally recite: The Qur'an and the Sunnah, and from the Companions and the Righteous Predecessors. So it is no wonder that an Imam among the Imams who follow the Predecessors said that word which is, as they used to say in old times, drunk with water of gold. He said (may Allah not let his tongue be cut):
"Knowledge is: Allah said, His Messenger said ... the Companions said; it is not deception."
So knowledge is: Allah said, His Messenger said, the Companions said. It does not stop at what people say today: Allah said, the Messenger of Allah said. This is because, as we mentioned to you earlier, the speech of Allah and the speech of the Messenger of Allah is subjected to figurative interpretation by the misguided sects, with interpretations that judge these texts as valid or invalid. The example we gave you previously regarding the Qadiyyah is not far from your memory ... and so on, the old misguided sects, some of which exist today, all follow this method of denying the verses and hadiths without paying attention to what the Predecessors were upon. Therefore, I conclude with Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) when he said:
"Knowledge is: Allah said, His Messenger said ... the Companions said; it is not deception.
Knowledge is not setting you up for foolish disagreement ... between the Messenger and the opinion of a jurist.
No, nor denying the attributes and negating them ... out of fear of denial of the divine attributes and likening Allah to creation."
This is how we must understand the call of the Book and the Sunnah upon the methodology of the Righteous Predecessors. And this is how the callers to Allah must be if they are scholars. But if they are still, as we said using the Syrian expression, like thin paper, and perhaps you do not understand this term, I say: whoever is in the shallows; meaning in the beginning of knowledge, in the beginning of the sea of knowledge; it is not for him to appoint himself a caller. We call for people like him, as our brother said earlier ... from the misguidance; that he should drink intoxicants, that he should steal, that he should commit fornication, and so on; there is no obstacle. But that he should be pleased with that and think of himself that he is a caller; especially if ... this is a problem. ... a caller and he is sent to the lands of disbelief in the name of a caller; there are no scholars there, so he is forced to issue rulings, and he goes astray and leads others astray. "He who lacks a thing cannot give it."
And this is sufficient, and praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
The best of places are the mosques, and the worst of places are the markets
خير البقاع المساجد ، وشرُّ البقاع الأسواق"Knowledge is: Allah said, His Messenger said ... the Companions said; it is not deception."
So knowledge is: Allah said, His Messenger said, the Companions said. It does not stop at what people say today: Allah said, the Messenger of Allah said. This is because, as we mentioned to you earlier, the speech of Allah and the speech of the Messenger of Allah is subjected to figurative interpretation by the misguided sects, with interpretations that judge these texts as valid or invalid. The example we gave you previously regarding the Qadiyyah is not far from your memory ... and so on, the old misguided sects, some of which exist today, all follow this method of denying the verses and hadiths without paying attention to what the Predecessors were upon. Therefore, I conclude with Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) when he said:
"Knowledge is: Allah said, His Messenger said ... the Companions said; it is not deception.
Knowledge is not setting you up for foolish disagreement ... between the Messenger and the opinion of a jurist.
No, nor denying the attributes and negating them ... out of fear of denial of the divine attributes and likening Allah to creation."
This is how we must understand the call of the Book and the Sunnah upon the methodology of the Righteous Predecessors. And this is how the callers to Allah must be if they are scholars. But if they are still, as we said using the Syrian expression, like thin paper, and perhaps you do not understand this term, I say: whoever is in the shallows; meaning in the beginning of knowledge, in the beginning of the sea of knowledge; it is not for him to appoint himself a caller. We call for people like him, as our brother said earlier ... from the misguidance; that he should drink intoxicants, that he should steal, that he should commit fornication, and so on; there is no obstacle. But that he should be pleased with that and think of himself that he is a caller; especially if ... this is a problem. ... a caller and he is sent to the lands of disbelief in the name of a caller; there are no scholars there, so he is forced to issue rulings, and he goes astray and leads others astray. "He who lacks a thing cannot give it."
And this is sufficient, and praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds.
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