And by Allah, these *** have never gathered for you, as you have declared with your tongues, when you said that sound reason contradicts the *** transmitted from reports and the Qur'an, so we prioritize the rational.
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The Shaykh :
"And by Allah, these *** have never gathered for you, as you have declared with your tongues"
For they have admitted that there is no recourse to the Book and the Sunnah in affirming or negating the attributes, but rather the recourse is to reason. If reason and transmission conflict, reason is prioritized over their speech. For this reason, the author said:
"When you said that sound reason contradicts the *** transmitted from reports and the Qur'an,
so we prioritize the rational" meaning that which is known by reason.
"Then we divert the *** transmitted by interpretation of various colors"
We divert it by interpretation in various ways; sometimes we compare it as metaphor, or hyperbole, or likening, or something similar to what they say. And the author's statement: "by interpretation" — the reality of this interpretation that the deniers of attributes have followed is distortion; its reality is distortion, because they have distorted the words from their places. For this reason, when the debate took place between the Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) and his opponents regarding the *Al-Wasitiyyah* creed, he stated that he expressed it as distortion without distortion or denial of attributes. He said: "Because interpretation is not possible when the words are diverted from what Allah intended; rather, this is called distortion." Yes.
"If we are unable to do so" Yes, note also that even Ibn al-Qayyim's context does not indicate that he agreed with them that it is interpretation, because he is narrating their speech.
"So we prioritize the rational, then we divert the *** transmitted by interpretation"
Who says this? It is the deniers of attributes.
"And by Allah, these *** have never gathered for you, as you have declared with your tongues"
For they have admitted that there is no recourse to the Book and the Sunnah in affirming or negating the attributes, but rather the recourse is to reason. If reason and transmission conflict, reason is prioritized over their speech. For this reason, the author said:
"When you said that sound reason contradicts the *** transmitted from reports and the Qur'an,
so we prioritize the rational" meaning that which is known by reason.
"Then we divert the *** transmitted by interpretation of various colors"
We divert it by interpretation in various ways; sometimes we compare it as metaphor, or hyperbole, or likening, or something similar to what they say. And the author's statement: "by interpretation" — the reality of this interpretation that the deniers of attributes have followed is distortion; its reality is distortion, because they have distorted the words from their places. For this reason, when the debate took place between the Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) and his opponents regarding the *Al-Wasitiyyah* creed, he stated that he expressed it as distortion without distortion or denial of attributes. He said: "Because interpretation is not possible when the words are diverted from what Allah intended; rather, this is called distortion." Yes.
"If we are unable to do so" Yes, note also that even Ibn al-Qayyim's context does not indicate that he agreed with them that it is interpretation, because he is narrating their speech.
"So we prioritize the rational, then we divert the *** transmitted by interpretation"
Who says this? It is the deniers of attributes.