The Meaning of the Poet's Saying: "Can you produce an answer like this? Or do you turn to a second answer in which it is said, 'Allah said, His Messenger said,' but in it we said, 'We said like so-and-so said'?"
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The Shaykh : He says: "Can you produce" addressing the group mentioned previously.
"Can you produce an answer like this? Or do you turn to a second answer
in which it is said, 'Allah said, His Messenger said,' but in it we said, 'We said like so-and-so said'"
Correct, yes, that is how it is.
"And that is what our minds led to, when we weighed the revelation with the scale"
Meaning: We weighed the revelation against the intellect, and the intellect prevailed.
"Can you produce an answer like this? Or do you turn to a second answer
in which it is said, 'Allah said, His Messenger said,' but in it we said, 'We said like so-and-so said'"
Correct, yes, that is how it is.
"And that is what our minds led to, when we weighed the revelation with the scale"
Meaning: We weighed the revelation against the intellect, and the intellect prevailed.