Clarification that the methodology of the Salaf is safer, more knowledgeable, and more wise.
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The Shaykh : Therefore, the truth, as stated by the accurate scholars such as Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, and their like, is: "The methodology of the Salaf is safer, more knowledgeable, and more wise." "All good, as it is said, is in following those who came before, and all evil is in innovating from those who came after." And this is something we feel with our own hands.
Look now, when we affirm all the divine attributes, what do they accuse us of? That we liken our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) to the created things. And we say: O people, fear Allah. We say as Allah said, teaching us:[Ash-Shuraa 42:11], [Ash-Shuraa 42:11], and He comes and descends, and He rose above the Throne, and the like of that, [Ash-Shuraa 42:11]. So they accuse us of an accusation, and this is one of the effects of partisanship against the methodology of the righteous Salaf.
But look now how they compel themselves to misguidance and deviation from the Shari'ah when they submit to the methodology of the Khalaf in figurative interpretation. When verses regarding rising above the Throne, being above, and descending, and the like of those verses by which Imam al-Dhahabi affirmed the attribute of elevation for Allah (Mighty and Majestic), these later generations deny all these legal realities.
Look now, when we affirm all the divine attributes, what do they accuse us of? That we liken our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) to the created things. And we say: O people, fear Allah. We say as Allah said, teaching us:
There is nothing like unto Him, and He is the Hearing, the Seeing.
لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ البَصِيرُThere is nothing like unto Him
لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌThere is nothing like unto Him
لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَيْءٌBut look now how they compel themselves to misguidance and deviation from the Shari'ah when they submit to the methodology of the Khalaf in figurative interpretation. When verses regarding rising above the Throne, being above, and descending, and the like of those verses by which Imam al-Dhahabi affirmed the attribute of elevation for Allah (Mighty and Majestic), these later generations deny all these legal realities.
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