A discussion on the topic of strictness in the methodology of the Salaf.

The Shaykh: You don't know, I mean, you are still going around the issue. Creed does not need philosophy, nor does it need explanation. You are asking for something that is not possible. These are not legal rulings. The original state of all research is . And if it were not for the entry of the science of theology (kalam) and the necessity for people to speak about things the first generations did not speak about, all this talk would not have arisen, and it is not permissible to delve into it. Yes, you want us to delve into it now with an addition; this is a mistake.

The questioner: No, I do not want you to delve into it.

The Shaykh : So then?

The questioner: ... The way you are delving into it, you have delved and finished ... instead of the focus being on answering this and that and that and that, it should be more clarification, not that we intend it this way ... .

The Shaykh: This is what we are asking about. What is the clarification? Now, for example, what is the point that is hidden from you in these few sessions that ... .

The questioner: It is not hidden from me.

The Shaykh: Excuse me, be patient. Who do we want to clarify it for, my brother?

The questioner: The written content, if a common person comes to read it, I think he will feel that the intention in some things is that they want to do something, there is a kind of thing that it is not above its meaning that it is, I mean, if another person who says this, and who says about the Salafis that they assign a place to Allah, and brings this written text from the Salafis and reads it before people who do not know, they will say: these people intend by this speech that Allah is confined between this and that in the sky. Through the speech of the Salafis, he can find evidence to convince those with little knowledge of this. This is what I believe.

Another questioner: But I am here, on the other hand, any person can sneak into any theory or school of thought and the same thing happens.

The questioner: No, that is not it.

The Shaykh: No, no, I wanted to say more than that. The Qur'an and the Sunnah, this thing you are saying, the Qur'an and the Sunnah, yes, what do we do, I mean?

Another questioner: But, but let me, I mean, maybe I may have had a conflict with Adnan or some ... .

The Shaykh: Go ahead.

The questioner: It must be understood that we are now with ... and as a result of dialogue and practice, we have reached a set of matters in creed in which we differ with others, which is pure Salafi thought. But it is not within our reach, now, so let your self be with me, short or long or so, and I may accept from you the axioms ... my belief in this matter because ... with others, the others do not take from me as I mean, without ... take from you as a given, or perhaps in many matters your breath with me will not be short, so I accept from you so as not to contradict you, or I do not have the argument, proof, and logic certainly that I walk with you as is happening - for example - with Shaykh Ali. He and Shaykh Ali would sit for an hour and a half, I would discuss with him, we would remain in agreement. But if I enter with you into a discussion, not for the sake of argument, but so that in the future when I face research of this type, I have ... I have, of course, with my admission of my shortcoming and lack of knowledge and lack of specialization and knowledge, but I need to enter with you into a discussion ... terminological, even if ... even to come out with a result. This result, I say in it: I am a caller to Salafi thought among the others. Of course, you need to tell me that ... for me to be so, I must ... what is happening, yes, truly, but I, I am like this up to not ... I cannot say: Shaykh Nasser, and Shaykh Ali cannot say: Shaykh Nasser. This talk requires a gift, it requires age, it requires success from Allah, it requires Allah - Glorified and Exalted is He - to want to grant him ... but at the minimum, the minimum, for me to be ... Salafi and respond to the others, it must be made available to me, there must be an action from scholars, the matter is simplified and written in a very clear way so that if we want to respond, we respond, I mean ... these booklets on many of the doubts that ... Adnan, many of the other people find an entry ... as a result of the lack of abundance, availability, and simplicity in many of his defenses of himself, defenses of his existence. So from here, I mean, Adnan demands ... through people capable of abundance in all these doubts that are raised around this, that he is Salafi. All the people who ... Salafi means Wahhabi means this means that, and they describe this thinking as a school of thought contrary to what it is. Many people ... against the Sunnah; knowing that the core of the Salafi school, the meaning of Salafi, is that you follow the Book and the Sunnah and the righteous Salaf, and you are very surprised, I mean, he tells you: what is this school? It is known for this school in things that are important in it.

The Shaykh: I see, I see that there is no meeting in understanding on this specific point, and I am forced to speak frankly. I have not heard from him now a doubt he is throwing out to get the answer, nor am I ready to write a book on this topic. So what does he want? And what do you want? This is one thing. The second thing is that he entered into the topic of accusing the latest Salafi methodology of having strictness. So this person wants to claim a special claim that touches the creed of some people, old or new, he must bring evidence. So he spoke and spoke at length that this does not necessitate this, but we said: it is one of the axioms of the Salafi call. So if he was asking about a doubt or a problem he heard from the superstitious, these are from the innovators, from the atheists, and so on; then I ... with this question, if I have an answer, I present it, or not. But this was not his topic, so you cannot say: we need this and we need that, and I have no need for this and that.

Another questioner: He ... said ... he can correct it, and he said that among the things he mentioned, because you always speak of it, and the speech that is reported from you ... he told you: I have answers, I do not want them, I want them for others.

The Shaykh: What did he say - my brother - about the thing that reached him, what did he say? What is the doubt? What is the doubt he presented?

The questioner: For example, we told you that these people want to say: the interpreters, the people of the schools of thought, and the scholars of ... the school ... .

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner: They proceed with figurative interpretation regarding the attributes ... .

The questioner: They say that you ... because you say that it is above the seventh heaven, it means you are assigning a place to the Most Merciful, and this is not permissible.

The Shaykh: Okay; what do you want now? What do you want from us? Now, the thing you are talking about regarding these people, do you think we do not have knowledge of it? No, excuse me. So what is your intention with this story? If your intention is something, let us understand the reality. You do not admit to us that we know the reality. If your intention is something scientific, please ask about it?

The questioner: ... I spoke to you ... your enthusiasm for the topic in the issue of ... .

The Shaykh: Glory to Allah! May Allah forgive you! And you forgot?
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The Shaykh : May Allah forgive you!

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh: So perhaps this, perhaps this is our merchandise returned to us [The Shaykh laughs!].

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh: I forgot. What did I forget?

The questioner: ... What I am saying is that the Salafi implications focus more on the axiomatic points ... and ... the topic that ... and that ... and that and that ... clear and understandable ... but in this focus, it seems that they lose the placement of an easier and clearer division of matters ... the doubts; I mean, I hold a book like "Sharh al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah" which is ... you are surprised in a specific chapter in it ... that relates to the attributes and ... its application ... that the style and speech written in this ... and on this and on this, I believe ... it is written on it ... but you have done a tracing for it and done ... .

The Shaykh: May Allah guide you [The Shaykh laughs!], May Allah guide you, O ... yes.

Another questioner: I believe that this is it.

The Shaykh : I want to see this statement. Do you want me to explain "Al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah" in a new explanation? I am not capable of doing that. So, what is the intention behind this statement, my brother? This is not your statement; this is the statement of the opponents. First, you say: "They focus on such and such." This is not correct. Look at my writings and books; what are they focusing on? If you mean me, and if you mean others from the past or the present, , a person acts within the limits of his attributes and his capacity. So, I am telling you and Abu Yahya, who supported you, that I have not heard a doubt from our brother 'Adnan so that we could answer it.