The Meaning of the Poet's Saying: "So they covered this word with deception and *** concealment from the blind and the naked"
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The Shaykh :"So they covered this word with deception" This word means ta'wil (figurative interpretation). They called this tahrif (distortion of a text's meaning) and ilhad (deviation) ta'wil.
"deception and *** concealment from the blind and the naked
So every hypocrite and denier is astonished"
Pay attention now. The summary is that the author (may Allah have mercy on him) is refuting the Asha'irah, who denied the apparent meanings of the texts and distorted them to a meaning that contradicts the apparent meaning. They introduced a new meaning for ta'wil (figurative interpretation) that was not known before. In reality, for us, the people of the Sunnah, what is it? It is tahrif (distortion of a text's meaning), not ta'wil. Because ta'wil in this meaning is not found in the Book, nor in the Sunnah, nor in the speech of the Salaf (the earliest generations).
"deception and *** concealment from the blind and the naked
So every hypocrite and denier is astonished"
Pay attention now. The summary is that the author (may Allah have mercy on him) is refuting the Asha'irah, who denied the apparent meanings of the texts and distorted them to a meaning that contradicts the apparent meaning. They introduced a new meaning for ta'wil (figurative interpretation) that was not known before. In reality, for us, the people of the Sunnah, what is it? It is tahrif (distortion of a text's meaning), not ta'wil. Because ta'wil in this meaning is not found in the Book, nor in the Sunnah, nor in the speech of the Salaf (the earliest generations).