The meaning of the poet's statement: "Know that their path is the opposite of the straight path for one who has two eyes. They made the words of their sheikhs a decisive text for them, a standard by which it is measured."
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The Shaykh : The texts are an army for the ruler.
"The removal and retention of rulings belongs to the ruler, not to the subjects of the ruler"
The removal and retention of rulings belongs to the ruler. Who is the ruler? The words of the sheikhs, not the subjects, which are the texts of the Book and the Sunnah.
"And so it is with the sayings of the sheikhs; they are the standard, not the text and the Qur'an"
This is the point of similarity.
"The removal and retention of rulings belongs to the ruler, not to the subjects of the ruler"
The removal and retention of rulings belongs to the ruler. Who is the ruler? The words of the sheikhs, not the subjects, which are the texts of the Book and the Sunnah.
"And so it is with the sayings of the sheikhs; they are the standard, not the text and the Qur'an"
This is the point of similarity.