If someone disagrees on a secondary issue in creed, does that take him out of the methodology of the people of the Sunnah and the community?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you. If a person disagrees on a secondary issue in creed?
The Shaykh : If, if.
The questioner : If someone disagrees on a secondary issue in creed, is he considered, O Shaykh, to be outside the methodology of the people of the Sunnah and the community?
The Shaykh : No. This person is asking: if a person disagrees with the people of the Sunnah on one of the issues of creed, is he called, for example, an Ash'ari? No, he is not called that absolutely. Rather, he is called an Ash'ari in such-and-such, and it is qualified. The evidence for this, which clarifies it, is that if one of the Hanbalis today chooses a position on one of the issues, do we say he is a Shafi'i? We do not say he is a Shafi'i absolutely; we say he is a Shafi'i in this issue.
The questioner : Does he thereby disagree with the methodology of the people of the Sunnah in this?
The Shaykh : No, no. This is the meaning intended by the Mu'tazilah.
The Shaykh : If, if.
The questioner : If someone disagrees on a secondary issue in creed, is he considered, O Shaykh, to be outside the methodology of the people of the Sunnah and the community?
The Shaykh : No. This person is asking: if a person disagrees with the people of the Sunnah on one of the issues of creed, is he called, for example, an Ash'ari? No, he is not called that absolutely. Rather, he is called an Ash'ari in such-and-such, and it is qualified. The evidence for this, which clarifies it, is that if one of the Hanbalis today chooses a position on one of the issues, do we say he is a Shafi'i? We do not say he is a Shafi'i absolutely; we say he is a Shafi'i in this issue.
The questioner : Does he thereby disagree with the methodology of the people of the Sunnah in this?
The Shaykh : No, no. This is the meaning intended by the Mu'tazilah.