(The accusation of the people of innovation against the people of the Sunnah of violating the sanctity of scholars) They said to us when we called them to *** This is the statement of one full of desire, whose measures of the shaykhs have gone
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The Shaykh :"They said to us when we called them to *** this"
"They said to us when we called them to *** this is the statement of one full of desire"
When we called them to the Book and the Sunnah, they said to us: This is the statement of one full of desire, filled with desire.
"The measures of the shaykhs and the *** sanctity of the scholars have gone, rather, their eyes have passed over them"
Meaning, they said to us: You call to the Book and the Sunnah, and this is belittling the scholars. The scholars have no status with you, right? And no sanctity? How can you say, "Go to the Book and the Sunnah, and so-and-so the Shaykh says such and such"? He has no sanctity with you. And what do we say? We say: The sanctity of the Book and the Sunnah is greater with us than the sanctity of this man and his like. And every person—this is our answer. Well, he says:
"And you left their sayings neglected, and no *** two ears of yours listened to them"
Who says this?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : It is these mutakallimun (theologians) who return to the sayings of the shaykhs. They say to us:
"You left their sayings neglected, and no *** two ears of yours listened to them"
We say: We have never left this. Rather, we look at them. If they agree with the Book and the Sunnah, they are truth, and we accept them with head and eyes. If they contradict them, they are false, and we do not accept them.
"But we preserved their sanctity and did *** not count what they said as the measure of fingers"
Meaning, we are the ones who know the right of the shaykhs and their sanctity. We do not transgress their sayings, even if they contradict the Book and the Sunnah.
"They said to us when we called them to *** this is the statement of one full of desire"
When we called them to the Book and the Sunnah, they said to us: This is the statement of one full of desire, filled with desire.
"The measures of the shaykhs and the *** sanctity of the scholars have gone, rather, their eyes have passed over them"
Meaning, they said to us: You call to the Book and the Sunnah, and this is belittling the scholars. The scholars have no status with you, right? And no sanctity? How can you say, "Go to the Book and the Sunnah, and so-and-so the Shaykh says such and such"? He has no sanctity with you. And what do we say? We say: The sanctity of the Book and the Sunnah is greater with us than the sanctity of this man and his like. And every person—this is our answer. Well, he says:
"And you left their sayings neglected, and no *** two ears of yours listened to them"
Who says this?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : It is these mutakallimun (theologians) who return to the sayings of the shaykhs. They say to us:
"You left their sayings neglected, and no *** two ears of yours listened to them"
We say: We have never left this. Rather, we look at them. If they agree with the Book and the Sunnah, they are truth, and we accept them with head and eyes. If they contradict them, they are false, and we do not accept them.
"But we preserved their sanctity and did *** not count what they said as the measure of fingers"
Meaning, we are the ones who know the right of the shaykhs and their sanctity. We do not transgress their sayings, even if they contradict the Book and the Sunnah.