The meaning of the poet's statement: "By Allah, you have not brought a 'Allah said' or *** 'the Messenger said,' and we are in the field, except with clamor and noise and mumble *** mumble and clatter with every old banner"
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The Shaykh :"By Allah, you have not brought a 'Allah said' or *** 'the Messenger said,' and we are in the field"
This is correct; if you read their books and turn through the many pages, you will not find "Allah said" or "the Messenger of Allah said."
"except with clamor" — meaning you have not come except with clamor — "and noise and mumble *** mumble and clatter with every old banner"
(may Allah have mercy on him) all of this means that it does not benefit anything.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Yes?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : What?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : What is it all? Yes, and clatter with every old banner; shanan is the plural of shanah, there is no harm.
All these cries do not benefit; the clamor and noise are like clapping, and the mumble, yes, but do they benefit? They do not benefit. Good.
"and clatter with every old banner" means that they are clattering with old banners that are of no use.
"And that is fitting, and it is fitting for you, and you are its people" "It is fitting" means the clamor, noise, mumble, and clatter, and you are the people of it.
"... *** you, with what? You, by your outcome, are the ones with knowledge" means that you, according to what you believe and think, are the ones with knowledge, and yet you have nothing but clamor.
This is correct; if you read their books and turn through the many pages, you will not find "Allah said" or "the Messenger of Allah said."
"except with clamor" — meaning you have not come except with clamor — "and noise and mumble *** mumble and clatter with every old banner"
(may Allah have mercy on him) all of this means that it does not benefit anything.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Yes?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : What?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : What is it all? Yes, and clatter with every old banner; shanan is the plural of shanah, there is no harm.
All these cries do not benefit; the clamor and noise are like clapping, and the mumble, yes, but do they benefit? They do not benefit. Good.
"and clatter with every old banner" means that they are clattering with old banners that are of no use.
"And that is fitting, and it is fitting for you, and you are its people" "It is fitting" means the clamor, noise, mumble, and clatter, and you are the people of it.
"... *** you, with what? You, by your outcome, are the ones with knowledge" means that you, according to what you believe and think, are the ones with knowledge, and yet you have nothing but clamor.