If we affirm an attribute such as direction, do we stop at the wording and judge its meaning with our minds?
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The questioner : We have established a principle previously: if we affirm an attribute, such as the attribute of side or body, do we stop at the wording, while judging the meaning with our minds?
The Shaykh : No, we do not delve into details. If a false meaning is intended, we reject the meaning. No, man, how can you employ reason? Employing reason now: does your reason indicate that Allah the Exalted is described with attributes of perfection in general and is free from attributes of deficiency in general? If so, anything that includes deficiency and is attributed to Allah is rejected. It is clear that the need to eat, for example, is a deficiency, not a perfection?
The student: A deficiency.
The Shaykh : If Allah is free from eating, even if we did not read the Qur'an, this is clear.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : The reason intended is the reason that contradicts what came in the Book and the Sunnah. For example, if it is said, "Your Lord has come," and one says, "It is not possible for Him to come; the meaning is His command has come," we ask: what prevents Him from coming? You do not affirm a coming like our coming, for example, to visit a person or something similar. Say it is a coming befitting His Majesty and Greatness, and we do not ask how. Anything that contradicts the Book and the Sunnah, from one who claims it is reason, is not reason. Take this as a rule, whether in matters of information or practice, because, praise be to Allah, the Book and the Sunnah only came with what agrees with the clear reason. The time is up.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. We are conducting a competition; do we proceed with it and not leave it? In the book we are reading now, there is a competition, yes, on what we understood of the rules or examples or divisions in the lesson.
The questioner : Do you mean questions or a competition?
The Shaykh : A competition. Yes, it is beneficial. Look, okay, read, O Abdullah.
The reader: The author (may Allah preserve him) said: "And thus, the interpretation of Allah's nearness to His creation by indwelling and mixing is false according to the Book, the Sunnah, reason, the innate disposition, and the consensus of the Salaf.
The third: that it entails false implications that are not befitting Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) .
The Shaykh : No, we do not delve into details. If a false meaning is intended, we reject the meaning. No, man, how can you employ reason? Employing reason now: does your reason indicate that Allah the Exalted is described with attributes of perfection in general and is free from attributes of deficiency in general? If so, anything that includes deficiency and is attributed to Allah is rejected. It is clear that the need to eat, for example, is a deficiency, not a perfection?
The student: A deficiency.
The Shaykh : If Allah is free from eating, even if we did not read the Qur'an, this is clear.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : The reason intended is the reason that contradicts what came in the Book and the Sunnah. For example, if it is said, "Your Lord has come," and one says, "It is not possible for Him to come; the meaning is His command has come," we ask: what prevents Him from coming? You do not affirm a coming like our coming, for example, to visit a person or something similar. Say it is a coming befitting His Majesty and Greatness, and we do not ask how. Anything that contradicts the Book and the Sunnah, from one who claims it is reason, is not reason. Take this as a rule, whether in matters of information or practice, because, praise be to Allah, the Book and the Sunnah only came with what agrees with the clear reason. The time is up.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. We are conducting a competition; do we proceed with it and not leave it? In the book we are reading now, there is a competition, yes, on what we understood of the rules or examples or divisions in the lesson.
The questioner : Do you mean questions or a competition?
The Shaykh : A competition. Yes, it is beneficial. Look, okay, read, O Abdullah.
The reader: The author (may Allah preserve him) said: "And thus, the interpretation of Allah's nearness to His creation by indwelling and mixing is false according to the Book, the Sunnah, reason, the innate disposition, and the consensus of the Salaf.
The third: that it entails false implications that are not befitting Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) .