Clarification of the beneficial knowledge in this world and the Hereafter, with a warning against the "Qadiani" sect.

The Shaykh: In brief—and perhaps I have spoken longer than the questioner intended with his question—in brief, I say: May Allah have mercy on Ibn al-Qayyim, who said:
"Knowledge is: Allah said, His Messenger said, *** The Companions said, not by deception
Knowledge is not setting you up for foolish disagreement *** Between the Messenger and the opinion of a jurist
Nay, nor denial of the attributes and their negation, *** fearing ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) and tashbih (likening Allah to creation).
This is the knowledge: Allah said, the Messenger of Allah said, the Companions said. Today, all the Islamic sects take two things from this statement: "Allah said" and "the Messenger of Allah said," but they twist the rest and circle around what Allah said and what the Messenger of Allah said, and they come to you with a school of thought for which Allah has not sent down any authority. An example of this for you is the new sect, the "Qadianis," who are called the "Ahmadiyyah." These are the last of the Islamic sects to have an entity, personalities, prominence, and a widespread call in the European and American countries in the name of Islam. These are Muslims who perform the five daily prayers and perform Hajj to the House of Allah, but they deny established legal facts explicitly stated in the Book and the Sunnah, which they were not preceded to by the "Mu'tazilah," the "Maturidiyyah," or the "Asha'irah." For example, they deny that there is a creation called the jinn, even though there is a surah in the Qur'an named Surat al-Jinn. Well, do they deny the Qur'an? Do they deny the surah? No, but they say to us: "You did not understand the meaning of the jinn. The jinn are like the humans and people. Do the two terms 'ins' (humans) and 'nas' (people) indicate one referent or two referents?"

The questioner: One referent.

The Shaykh: No, one referent. They brought a third referent: 'ins, 'nas, and jinn are three names applied to one referent, which is humans. When you bring them a verse from the Qur'an: , they tell you: "This is not real fire or real clay, but rather a metaphor." And when you bring them the authentic hadith in Muslim: ; they tell you: "This is an ahad hadith, an ahad hadith, a hadith that is not mutawatir (mass-transmitted), meaning that an ahad hadith does not establish a creed." And this is misguidance; and it is that an ahad hadith does not establish a creed. Unfortunately, this is not a Qadiani doctrine; the Qadianis were preceded to this misguidance by centuries, but they were not preceded to interpreting the jinn as being humans or people. Al-Azhar al-Sharif, the one they call al-Sharif, now declares to the students whom they distribute throughout the Islamic world for the call to Islam that an authentic hadith is not cited as evidence in creed unless it is mutawatir. What does mutawatir mean? It means it comes from many routes, meaning it is narrated by ten Companions, and ten from the Tabi'un from ten Companions, and so on. In any case, I wanted to be brief, but as they say, the matter has many threads.

Another questioner: May Allah reward you with good. What do they gain from ta'til (denial of the divine attributes)?

The Shaykh : Yes?

Another questioner: What do they gain from ta'til (denial of the divine attributes)?

The Shaykh : I did not understand!

Another questioner : What do they gain from ta'til (denial of the divine attributes)?

The Shaykh: Following desires, their intellect. They rule by their intellects, not by their Shari'ah.

Another questioner : .

The Shaykh: Yes.