(Clarification that the people of Kalam are the most afflicted with doubt at the time of death, and a mention of their sayings) And he says: "The paths have multiplied upon me, I do not know *** The greatest path, the Sultan's path, but rather"
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The Shaykh : He said: "And he says: 'The paths have multiplied upon me, I do not know *** The greatest path, the Sultan's path'"
What is the greatest path, the Sultan's path? It is the Book and the Sunnah, the path of the Imams and the people of guidance.
"But rather they are all terrifying paths, in which *** Calamities occur without calculation.
So doubt is his ultimate goal"
Doubt is his ultimate goal, such as the people of Kalam who say that the most afflicted with doubt at the time of death are the people of Kalam, in a state of bewilderment, until their Imams openly express their bewilderment. He says: "The end of the feet of the intellects is a halt, *** And the most of the striving of the world is misguidance.
And our souls are in loneliness from our bodies, *** And the end of our worldly life is harm and calamity.
And we did not benefit from our research throughout our lives *** except that we gathered therein "they say" and "they say"
"I have reflected upon the paths of Kalam and the philosophical methodologies, and I did not find them to cure the sick or quench the thirst. I found the closest of paths to be the path of the Qur'an. I read in affirmation:[Taha 20:5] [Fatir 35:10] And I read in negation: [Taha 20:110], and whoever has experienced what I have experienced will know what I know" This is said by one of their Imams, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, and this is his admission that all research in the science of Kalam is wasted and yields no benefit. And some of them said: "I have delved into the vast ocean" meaning that I found nothing to cure me, "And here I am, dying upon the creed of my mother" upon the creed of my mother, the creed of her mother, that she did not research in the science of Kalam, but was upon the fitrah. So these are people of doubt and bewilderment because they did not enter the houses from their doors.
"So doubt is his ultimate goal and his final state, *** Without any doubt on his part regarding the Most Merciful,
Or his religion, his Book, and his Messenger *** and his meeting and the resurrection of the bodies
Meaning he has no doubt regarding Allah, or regarding the religion, or regarding the Book, or regarding the Messenger, or regarding the Resurrection, but he is in a state of bewilderment. We ask Allah for well-being.
What is the greatest path, the Sultan's path? It is the Book and the Sunnah, the path of the Imams and the people of guidance.
"But rather they are all terrifying paths, in which *** Calamities occur without calculation.
So doubt is his ultimate goal"
Doubt is his ultimate goal, such as the people of Kalam who say that the most afflicted with doubt at the time of death are the people of Kalam, in a state of bewilderment, until their Imams openly express their bewilderment. He says: "The end of the feet of the intellects is a halt, *** And the most of the striving of the world is misguidance.
And our souls are in loneliness from our bodies, *** And the end of our worldly life is harm and calamity.
And we did not benefit from our research throughout our lives *** except that we gathered therein "they say" and "they say"
"I have reflected upon the paths of Kalam and the philosophical methodologies, and I did not find them to cure the sick or quench the thirst. I found the closest of paths to be the path of the Qur'an. I read in affirmation:
The Most Merciful [who is] above the Throne established.
الرحمن على العرش استوىTo Him ascends good speech
إليه يصعد الكلم الطيبbut they do not encompass it in knowledge.
ولا يحيطون به علما"So doubt is his ultimate goal and his final state, *** Without any doubt on his part regarding the Most Merciful,
Or his religion, his Book, and his Messenger *** and his meeting and the resurrection of the bodies
Meaning he has no doubt regarding Allah, or regarding the religion, or regarding the Book, or regarding the Messenger, or regarding the Resurrection, but he is in a state of bewilderment. We ask Allah for well-being.
