The Response to Those Who Say: Where Did Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) Get His Statement in the Interpretation of the Famous Verse?

The Shaykh : And when we explain this explanation, and we benefit from the verses and hadiths and the clarification of the imams of Islam regarding them; at that time, it becomes clear to us the ignorance of some of the hasty ones when they say: Where did Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) get his statement in the interpretation of the famous verse: ; he said: “The disbelief is not the one you are referring to, but rather it is a disbelief less than disbelief”? As if Ibn Abbas is responding in this era to some of the extremists among those who claim to adhere to the Book and the Sunnah, saying to them: The disbelief here is not the one you are referring to; meaning: it is not the disbelief that expels one from the religion, but rather it is a disbelief less than disbelief. And I have explained this verse in a previous session; so there is no need to repeat that.
In summary: Disbelief or shirk (associating partners with Allah) are two synonymous terms. One is creedal disbelief, and its place is the heart. The other is practical disbelief, and its place is the limbs. If the heart is independent in disbelief, then it is apostasy. But if faith is established in the heart and is mixed with something of disobedience by the limbs, then this is not disbelief. And this is the position of the people of the Sunnah and the community.