The Rightly Guided Predecessors were the most knowledgeable of people regarding the meanings of the Noble Qur'an, and clarifying the error in this statement: "The methodology of the Predecessors is safer"
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The Shaykh : So who is bold enough to say: that the Rightly Guided Predecessors did not understand the meaning of "Allah, the One, the Self-Sufficient, who begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none comparable to Him"?
Naturally, the answer will be: No, no one claims this claim. But I take this word as an introduction to say: Who is bold enough to say that the Predecessors did not investigate this Surah like you did, and passed over it as the noble ones pass, and did not stop at it, and did not build upon it a sincere and correct creed; and that is that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is One with no partner, and He is One in His essence, and One in His names, and One in His attributes, and in His worship (Blessed and Exalted is He). This Surah came in the Noble Qur'an explaining the terms of these verses, one by one. So the statement that the Rightly Guided Predecessors did not stop at these verses, if the intention is that they did not stop at them because of the clarity of their meaning and the clarity of what is intended from them, then this is a matter without doubt or doubt. And we say the same about all the verses in which there was disagreement in interpretation between those who belong to the Rightly Guided Predecessors, like us, and the others who belong to the Successors, and who say - with great regret, with complete frankness: "That the methodology of the Predecessors is safer, and the methodology of the Successors is more wise and more knowledgeable!!"
But there is another group who are not of these nor of those, and the followers of this group have increased in the present time, fleeing from the establishment of the argument against them. This group was named by the followers of the Predecessors as "the Standstillers." They are those who stand at the verses of attributes and the hadiths of attributes, and they explicitly state that they are with the Predecessors in interpreting them with a clear interpretation without figurative interpretation, with the transcendence of Allah, and they do not explicitly state that they are with the Successors in their method of figurative interpretation. As for their not standing with the Rightly Guided Predecessors, that is due to the prevalence of partisanship over them, and their arrogance in following the truth after its clarity, with those who call Muslims to follow the Rightly Guided Predecessors in everything; and especially what is related to the names of Allah and His attributes (Blessed and Exalted is He), and they do not go to what the Successors went to; because it has become clear to them that this word "that the methodology of the Successors is more knowledgeable and more wise" is a false and fabricated statement, which no one with intellect and sense would say; because we all know, Predecessors and Successors, that at the head of the list of the Rightly Guided Predecessors is the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); so how can a Muslim who knows what comes out of his mouth say: that the way of the Predecessors, and at its head is Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), is safer, but the way of the Successors is more knowledgeable and more wise?! In that is an explicit preference of what the Successors are upon over what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and their followers from the Rightly Guided Predecessors were upon; I mean the three generations attested to for their excellence.
Naturally, the answer will be: No, no one claims this claim. But I take this word as an introduction to say: Who is bold enough to say that the Predecessors did not investigate this Surah like you did, and passed over it as the noble ones pass, and did not stop at it, and did not build upon it a sincere and correct creed; and that is that Allah (Mighty and Majestic) is One with no partner, and He is One in His essence, and One in His names, and One in His attributes, and in His worship (Blessed and Exalted is He). This Surah came in the Noble Qur'an explaining the terms of these verses, one by one. So the statement that the Rightly Guided Predecessors did not stop at these verses, if the intention is that they did not stop at them because of the clarity of their meaning and the clarity of what is intended from them, then this is a matter without doubt or doubt. And we say the same about all the verses in which there was disagreement in interpretation between those who belong to the Rightly Guided Predecessors, like us, and the others who belong to the Successors, and who say - with great regret, with complete frankness: "That the methodology of the Predecessors is safer, and the methodology of the Successors is more wise and more knowledgeable!!"
But there is another group who are not of these nor of those, and the followers of this group have increased in the present time, fleeing from the establishment of the argument against them. This group was named by the followers of the Predecessors as "the Standstillers." They are those who stand at the verses of attributes and the hadiths of attributes, and they explicitly state that they are with the Predecessors in interpreting them with a clear interpretation without figurative interpretation, with the transcendence of Allah, and they do not explicitly state that they are with the Successors in their method of figurative interpretation. As for their not standing with the Rightly Guided Predecessors, that is due to the prevalence of partisanship over them, and their arrogance in following the truth after its clarity, with those who call Muslims to follow the Rightly Guided Predecessors in everything; and especially what is related to the names of Allah and His attributes (Blessed and Exalted is He), and they do not go to what the Successors went to; because it has become clear to them that this word "that the methodology of the Successors is more knowledgeable and more wise" is a false and fabricated statement, which no one with intellect and sense would say; because we all know, Predecessors and Successors, that at the head of the list of the Rightly Guided Predecessors is the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); so how can a Muslim who knows what comes out of his mouth say: that the way of the Predecessors, and at its head is Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), is safer, but the way of the Successors is more knowledgeable and more wise?! In that is an explicit preference of what the Successors are upon over what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and their followers from the Rightly Guided Predecessors were upon; I mean the three generations attested to for their excellence.
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