They say that one must first know Allah through reason and make the science of theology the path to studying creed.
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Al-Halabi : He saysThe questioner : Is it better for us to agree on error than to disagree on truth? Is not every truth correct, and not every falsehood an error?
The Shaykh : This is poetic and imaginary talk. What is the benefit of agreeing on error? And what is the harm in disagreeing if some are on the truth and some are on error? Our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, says:[Yunus 10:32], and He says: [Hud 11:118-119]. The famous hadith, which in reality is, in my opinion, the breaking point for the Islamic sects that do not adhere to the Sunnah and Salafi methodology, is: . In another narration, he said: . This statement contradicts the Book, contradicts the Sunnah, and contradicts reason. How can agreeing on error be better than disagreeing on truth, when some are on the truth and some are on error? First, this is the cosmic will of Allah: . Second, this is the report of the Infallible Messenger that the Ummah will split into more sects than the Jews and Christians. One of these seventy-three sects is on the truth, and the rest are on falsehood. So this statement is said to its speaker, despite the clarity of its falsehood: [Al-Baqarah 2:111], and it does not need more than this brief word.
The Shaykh : This is poetic and imaginary talk. What is the benefit of agreeing on error? And what is the harm in disagreeing if some are on the truth and some are on error? Our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, says:
And what can be beyond truth except error?
فماذا بعد الحق إلا الضلال(118) And if your Lord had willed, He could have made mankind one community; but they will not cease to differ. (119) Except whom your Lord has given mercy, and for that He created them. But the word of your Lord is to be fulfilled that, "I will surely fill Hell with jinn and men all together."
ولو شاء ربك لجعل الناس أمة واحدة ولا يزالون مختلفين إلا من رحم ربكThe Jews split into seventy-one sects, and the Christians split into seventy-two sects, and my Ummah will split into seventy-three sects, all in the Fire except one. They said: Who are they, O Messenger of Allah? He said: It is the Jama'ah.
تفرقت اليهود على إحدى وسبعين فرقة ، وتفرقت النصارى على اثنتين وسبعين فرقة ، وستفرق أمتي على ثلاث وسبعين فرقة ، كلها في النار إلا واحدة ، قالوا من هي يا رسول الله قال هي الجماعةIt is the one that is upon what I and my Companions are upon.
هي التي على ما أنا عليه وأصحابيAnd if your Lord had willed, He would have made you one community.
ولو شاء ربك لجعلهم أمة واحدةProduce your proof, if you should be truthful."
هاتوا برهانكم إن كنتم صادقين
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