The ruling on speaking about matters that are not based on the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)
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Your Eminence! I have heard some preachers say more than once: People’s reliance on Allah has weakened. For example, if I ask a person who intends to travel, "Who will you stay with when you arrive at your destination?"He says: With my relative.She says: And if you do not have a relative there?He says: I have money, so I will stay in a hotel or an apartment.She says: And if you do not have money?He says: Allah will make the matter easy. Here, they have placed Allah in the third position, which indicates a weakness in reliance on Allah. This, Your Eminence, is very common, and similar statements are widely circulated among them. These are the people I asked about in the previous session.
I say: One of the defects is for a person to speak about matters that are not based on the Book of Allah or the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), thereby perceiving the truth as falsehood or falsehood as truth. It is well known that it is permissible for a person to attribute something to its known cause.If it is said to the traveler: How will you travel? Who will you go to?He said: I will go to my relative. If I do not find him, I have money to stay in a hotel. If I have neither a relative nor money, Allah will make the matter easy. There is nothing in this that indicates a weakness in reliance on Allah, because he relied on apparent, known causes. If these causes are lacking, he places his hope in Allah. Even in his reliance on known causes, he knows deep in his heart that it is Allah who makes them easy for him and who facilitated them for him. And if it were not for the facilitation of Allah the Exalted, they would not have been made easy.
This does not mean that he placed Allah in the third position, but rather that he identified the known, tangible causes. If they become impossible for him, then Allah will make the matter easy. There is absolutely nothing in this that constitutes a deficiency in reliance on Allah or a weakness in reliance on Allah.
I say: One of the defects is for a person to speak about matters that are not based on the Book of Allah or the Sunnah of His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), thereby perceiving the truth as falsehood or falsehood as truth. It is well known that it is permissible for a person to attribute something to its known cause.If it is said to the traveler: How will you travel? Who will you go to?He said: I will go to my relative. If I do not find him, I have money to stay in a hotel. If I have neither a relative nor money, Allah will make the matter easy. There is nothing in this that indicates a weakness in reliance on Allah, because he relied on apparent, known causes. If these causes are lacking, he places his hope in Allah. Even in his reliance on known causes, he knows deep in his heart that it is Allah who makes them easy for him and who facilitated them for him. And if it were not for the facilitation of Allah the Exalted, they would not have been made easy.
This does not mean that he placed Allah in the third position, but rather that he identified the known, tangible causes. If they become impossible for him, then Allah will make the matter easy. There is absolutely nothing in this that constitutes a deficiency in reliance on Allah or a weakness in reliance on Allah.