(Ibn al-Qayyim’s call to the people of innovation to look at the texts as they look at the books of their sheikhs) O my people, by Allah, look and reflect*** in these reports
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The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
In this passage, the author (may Allah have mercy on him) addresses these people who placed the texts of their imams and sheikhs above the Book and the Sunnah, saying:
"O my people, by Allah, look and reflect*** in these reports and the Qur'an
just as you reflect and contemplate on what*** he who has opinion and calculation has said"
He means that the least we ask of you is justice, by looking at the texts of the Book and the Sunnah as you look at the writings of your sheikhs.
Now, the author (may Allah have mercy on him) mentions the Sunnah before the Qur'an in several places for the sake of the rhyme and meter, just as Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) mentioned Harun before Musa for the sake of the correspondence of the beginnings of the verses in Surat Ta-Ha, where the magicians said, is that so?[Taha 20:70] So they placed Harun first so that the beginnings of the verses would correspond.
In this passage, the author (may Allah have mercy on him) addresses these people who placed the texts of their imams and sheikhs above the Book and the Sunnah, saying:
"O my people, by Allah, look and reflect*** in these reports and the Qur'an
just as you reflect and contemplate on what*** he who has opinion and calculation has said"
He means that the least we ask of you is justice, by looking at the texts of the Book and the Sunnah as you look at the writings of your sheikhs.
Now, the author (may Allah have mercy on him) mentions the Sunnah before the Qur'an in several places for the sake of the rhyme and meter, just as Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) mentioned Harun before Musa for the sake of the correspondence of the beginnings of the verses in Surat Ta-Ha, where the magicians said, is that so?