(The Foundation of the Denialists Regarding Reason and the Demonstration of Its Invalidity, Which Is the Multiplicity of Minds and Their Mutual Differences) You have made the opinions of men and their conjectures the foundation *** without any proof or authority
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The Shaykh :"You have made the opinions of men and their conjectures the foundation *** without any proof or authority"
Hm?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : In our view, "opinions" and "opinions" mean the same thing, meaning that you have made the foundation the opinions of men, which they claim is reason. These opinions are all conjecture, suspicion, and estimation; they have no reality. That is why he said, "without any proof or authority."
"And how many opinions they have, by which opinion of whom *** do we weigh the texts? So clarify with explanation".
This means that the people of rationalism have many opinions. So by which opinion do we weigh the Qur'an and the Sunnah? By the opinion of the first, or the second, or the third, or the fourth, or the fifth? By whose opinion? This is the meaning of what some of them said: "Oh, I wish I knew by what the Book and the Sunnah are weighed? By the opinion of so-and-so, or so-and-so, or so-and-so? Since you are disputing among yourselves regarding your opinions, to whom do we return?" Yes, he said, may Allah have mercy on him:
"Each one has an opinion and a rational argument for him" "Each one has an opinion and a rational argument for him *** he calls to it and forbids taking the opinion of so-and-so"
Glory be to Allah, the minds have become numerous. Each one has an opinion, each one has a rational argument, each one calls to his opinion and says, "Cast away the opinion of so-and-so." In fact, some of them contradict themselves; you find one writing a book today, then writing a book yesterday that refutes what he wrote the day before. This is well known, and that is because they did not build upon a foundation; rather, they built upon a crumbling slope, so it collapsed with them. Yes, he said:
"And the opponent" Yes, and what comes after it? What?
Hm?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : In our view, "opinions" and "opinions" mean the same thing, meaning that you have made the foundation the opinions of men, which they claim is reason. These opinions are all conjecture, suspicion, and estimation; they have no reality. That is why he said, "without any proof or authority."
"And how many opinions they have, by which opinion of whom *** do we weigh the texts? So clarify with explanation".
This means that the people of rationalism have many opinions. So by which opinion do we weigh the Qur'an and the Sunnah? By the opinion of the first, or the second, or the third, or the fourth, or the fifth? By whose opinion? This is the meaning of what some of them said: "Oh, I wish I knew by what the Book and the Sunnah are weighed? By the opinion of so-and-so, or so-and-so, or so-and-so? Since you are disputing among yourselves regarding your opinions, to whom do we return?" Yes, he said, may Allah have mercy on him:
"Each one has an opinion and a rational argument for him" "Each one has an opinion and a rational argument for him *** he calls to it and forbids taking the opinion of so-and-so"
Glory be to Allah, the minds have become numerous. Each one has an opinion, each one has a rational argument, each one calls to his opinion and says, "Cast away the opinion of so-and-so." In fact, some of them contradict themselves; you find one writing a book today, then writing a book yesterday that refutes what he wrote the day before. This is well known, and that is because they did not build upon a foundation; rather, they built upon a crumbling slope, so it collapsed with them. Yes, he said:
"And the opponent" Yes, and what comes after it? What?