What is your guidance and comment on al-Nawawi’s explanation of the meaning of the hadith that contains: (What Allah wills and what you will)?

The Shaykh : Then I will say a final word, and we will conclude with it, if Allah wills, some of these hadiths in this session. This word I say: the ta'wil (figurative interpretation) that I quoted from al-Nawawi is rejected by observing some of the previous hadiths.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : When the man said: the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) rejected it and exaggerated in the rejection. Why? Because it implied shirk (associating partners with Allah). But we know that this implication is only a verbal implication. Likewise, the dream we narrated earlier: "The Messenger prohibited them from saying: What Allah wills and what Muhammad wills" because of the implication of verbal shirk; so the issue has no relation to a sermon that needs detailing, but rather it has a relation to the fact that it is not permissible for a Muslim to speak words that lead people to understand the opposite of what the wording requires.