What is the defense for the people of ta'til (denial of the divine attributes) delving into matters in which the Companions and the earliest generations did not delve?
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The student: May Allah forgive you, O Shaykh. In the era of the Companions (may Allah be pleased with them), they did not enter into these matters, O Shaykh. How can we enter into them, given the shortness of our minds, the shortness of our understanding, and the shortness of our knowledge, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The student: And what is within our capacity?
The Shaykh : What can we do?
The student: The scholars of the people of the Sunnah, their arena is this arena. It is obligatory for them to defend the Sunnah to the best of their ability.
The Shaykh : Correct.
The student: But what about the others, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : It does not concern you, O men.
The student: The method that allows them to enter through this entrance.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: They are not following the Sunnah, nor are they following scholarly consensus.
The Shaykh : May Allah protect you, they follow their imams. They believe that these imams are more knowledgeable than others.
The student: The Companions are more knowledgeable than them. Do they know that the Companions are more knowledgeable than them...?
The Shaykh : Look, may Allah bless you, this taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence) is a problem now. You find many books of the muqallidun (those who follow without evidence) where you read several pages and do not find a single piece of evidence, neither from the Qur'an nor from the Sunnah, except that so-and-so said this and so-and-so said that. The problem with the muqallidun is that they do not think like the people of hadith. Whenever the people of hadith bring up an issue, they mention a hadith or a verse, not that so-and-so said this and so-and-so said that.
The student: Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: Did the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) come with this statement?
The Shaykh : But scholars mentioned to them that they are distinguished and that they are more knowledgeable than others, so they follow them. Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes, exactly.
The student: And what is within our capacity?
The Shaykh : What can we do?
The student: The scholars of the people of the Sunnah, their arena is this arena. It is obligatory for them to defend the Sunnah to the best of their ability.
The Shaykh : Correct.
The student: But what about the others, O Shaykh?
The Shaykh : It does not concern you, O men.
The student: The method that allows them to enter through this entrance.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: They are not following the Sunnah, nor are they following scholarly consensus.
The Shaykh : May Allah protect you, they follow their imams. They believe that these imams are more knowledgeable than others.
The student: The Companions are more knowledgeable than them. Do they know that the Companions are more knowledgeable than them...?
The Shaykh : Look, may Allah bless you, this taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence) is a problem now. You find many books of the muqallidun (those who follow without evidence) where you read several pages and do not find a single piece of evidence, neither from the Qur'an nor from the Sunnah, except that so-and-so said this and so-and-so said that. The problem with the muqallidun is that they do not think like the people of hadith. Whenever the people of hadith bring up an issue, they mention a hadith or a verse, not that so-and-so said this and so-and-so said that.
The student: Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, says:
And what the Messenger has given you, take it
وما آتاكم الرسول فخذوهThe Shaykh : Yes.
The student:
and from what He has forbidden you, refrain
وما نهاكم عنه فانتهواThe Shaykh : But scholars mentioned to them that they are distinguished and that they are more knowledgeable than others, so they follow them. Yes.