The Shaykh Al-Albani’s response to Brother Khalid al-Anbari’s remarks regarding the phrase: "they did not have comprehensive knowledge of it."
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The Shaykh : Excuse me, could we pause at the first type? It seemed to me that there was something in it, and you mentioned the meaning that they encompassed... did you mean to contradict your own words?
Khalid al-Anbari: I say that the majority of these people denied Islam by claiming that they did not have comprehensive knowledge of it...
The Shaykh : Okay, let us pause here. "They did not have comprehensive knowledge of it"?
Khalid al-Anbari: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is this a condition?
Khalid al-Anbari: I say that the majority [did so], based on the statement of our Lord.
The Shaykh : Comprehensiveness regarding Islam, Professor, means that it is barely possible to say that the Muslim scholars themselves [have it], let alone the disbelievers, who know only a little of Islam. I believe that using the word "comprehensiveness" here corrupts our creed!
Khalid al-Anbari: Yes.
The Shaykh : Because comprehensiveness has no limits, and as is clear to you all, it is sufficient for a person to fall into disbelief if the meaning of the statement of Allah the Exalted,[An-Naml 27:14], is realized in him: if he knows that a verse from the Book of Allah was revealed by Allah and then he denies it. Here, there is no comprehensiveness, but there is denial of what his knowledge encompassed in this particular detail. So it seems to me that placing the word "comprehensiveness" here helps in defining the creed.
Khalid al-Anbari: I say that the majority of these people denied Islam by claiming that they did not have comprehensive knowledge of it...
The Shaykh : Okay, let us pause here. "They did not have comprehensive knowledge of it"?
Khalid al-Anbari: Yes.
The Shaykh : Is this a condition?
Khalid al-Anbari: I say that the majority [did so], based on the statement of our Lord.
The Shaykh : Comprehensiveness regarding Islam, Professor, means that it is barely possible to say that the Muslim scholars themselves [have it], let alone the disbelievers, who know only a little of Islam. I believe that using the word "comprehensiveness" here corrupts our creed!
Khalid al-Anbari: Yes.
The Shaykh : Because comprehensiveness has no limits, and as is clear to you all, it is sufficient for a person to fall into disbelief if the meaning of the statement of Allah the Exalted,