Clarification that acting upon a general text in matters where no practice has been established is one of the grave errors into which some innovators and some distinguished people of the Sunnah have fallen?
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The Shaykh : Acting upon a general text in matters where no practice has been established is one of the grave errors into which many of the innovators before us have fallen, and some distinguished scholars may also fall into it if they do not realize that it is not permissible to act upon a general text in such cases.