(Clarifying that figurative interpretation corrupts all people's speech) If only, by Allah, you had dealt with this *** the scholars of knowledge and their books by this measure, all the writings of the world would have been corrupted ***
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The Shaykh :"If only, by Allah, you had dealt with this *** the scholars of knowledge and their books by this measure
all the writings of the world would have been corrupted *** and the knowledge of people would have become despised"
He means: If you had said about all people's speech, "This does not provide certainty, this is not according to its apparent meaning, this is interpreted figuratively," what would remain of the books? They would be corrupted; it would become impossible to derive speech and certainty from any book.
"All the writings of the world would have been corrupted *** and the knowledge of people would have become despised
This is the case, and they are not in explaining their knowledge *** like the Messenger and the revealed Qur'an"
Yes, by Allah, they are not like the speech of the Messenger or the speech of Allah, and yet they respect the speech of their scholars and take it by its apparent meaning, while they do not take the Qur'an and the Sunnah by their apparent meaning.
"And by Allah, if what has been [said] were true"
The student: Enough.
The Shaykh : Enough? Listen.
all the writings of the world would have been corrupted *** and the knowledge of people would have become despised"
He means: If you had said about all people's speech, "This does not provide certainty, this is not according to its apparent meaning, this is interpreted figuratively," what would remain of the books? They would be corrupted; it would become impossible to derive speech and certainty from any book.
"All the writings of the world would have been corrupted *** and the knowledge of people would have become despised
This is the case, and they are not in explaining their knowledge *** like the Messenger and the revealed Qur'an"
Yes, by Allah, they are not like the speech of the Messenger or the speech of Allah, and yet they respect the speech of their scholars and take it by its apparent meaning, while they do not take the Qur'an and the Sunnah by their apparent meaning.
"And by Allah, if what has been [said] were true"
The student: Enough.
The Shaykh : Enough? Listen.