Fourth: The speech of Allah and His Messenger is not the reference for people regarding what they believe about their Lord and their God, whose knowledge is among the most important things the divine laws brought, but rather

The Shaykh :"Fourth: The speech of Allah and His Messenger is not the reference for people regarding what they believe about their Lord and their God, whose knowledge is among the most important things the divine laws brought, but rather it is" that is, knowledge of Allah "the essence of the messages. The reference is those agitated, contradictory minds, and whatever contradicts them. So their path is either denial, if they find a way to it, or distortion, which they call ta'wil (figurative interpretation), if they are unable to deny it" This is necessary and inevitable, because the reference for affirming or denying the attributes among the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) is the intellect. They agreed that whatever the intellect indicates to be contrary to is rejected and refuted, whatever it indicates to be affirmed is established, and whatever it does not indicate to be affirmed or denied, they divided into two groups: most of them rejected it and said there must be evidence affirming it, and some of them suspended judgment, saying that as long as there is no evidence from the intellect for rejection or affirmation, let us suspend judgment. So they became three groups, or rather, yes, or three states in reality:
The first state: If the intellect indicates the affirmation or denial of an attribute, what do they do? They affirm it or deny it.
The second: If the intellect indicates the denial of what is established in the Book and the Sunnah, they deny it. Then they have two paths in this: the first path is denial if possible, and the second is distortion if not possible. For example, in the Sunnah, they have room for denial, and for this reason they denied it.