Can the methodology of the Salaf and the methodology of the Khalaf be combined?
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The questioner : ... ؟
The Shaykh : I do not deny water or fire; I say that water is truth and fire is truth, but can I combine them? What is your opinion?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : It is not possible. How can you combine two statements, one of which says, "If you say that Allah has a real hand, you are a disbeliever?" The people of figurative interpretation say that whoever affirms a real hand for Allah is a disbeliever because he is one who ascribes a body to Allah, compares Him to creation, and denies the statement of the Exalted:[Ash-Shuraa 42:11] ... This is not possible except as some of them said: "We should reconcile communism with the Islamic economic methodology." Yes, and they went ... between them. I even saw the words of some of them, may Allah protect us from that, saying that the Islamic economic method is the Marxist communist method, with no difference between them. Yes, and he goes on to analyze and justify it with causes, a cause upon it. Yes, so it is absolutely impossible, my brother, for truth and falsehood to coexist. Rather, truth is the enemy of falsehood. [Al-Anbya 21:18] He strikes it
The student:
The Shaykh : What? Does he accept it and make peace with it, or not? A blow to the brain. And then, when He strikes it, it writhes and perhaps it heals. No, [Al-Anbya 21:18] and there is no life after a soul that is utterly destroyed. Yes, [Al-Anbya 21:18] So it is not possible for truth and falsehood to coexist, my brothers. Do not confuse the matter. It is absolutely impossible for truth and falsehood to coexist. Truth is truth and falsehood is falsehood, and both are opposites, enemies. Each one desires to destroy the other. But with whom is the victory? With the truth. He who is Able over all things, the Strong, the Firm, (Exalted and Majestic is He), casts the truth upon the falsehood, a casting, a throwing. And then it is
The student: utterly destroyed.
The Shaykh :[Al-Anbya 21:18], How beautiful is this blow to the brain! [Al-Anbya 21:18] So the suddenness does not allow even a moment until it is utterly destroyed and gone. So it is not possible, my brother, do not think about it. Those who say such a statement want us to be lenient with them. [Al-Qalam 68:9] Yes, or at least they want one of two things from us: either that we agree with them or that we be lenient with them. Both are impossible. It is absolutely impossible to be lenient in truth. It is obligatory for the believer to speak the truth and to say to the one who contradicts him, "You are in error, no matter who you are. Enter into the truth, and it is upon my eyes and head, and you are our brother and our companion. And even so, if your religious innovation does not take you out of faith, you are our brother. But we say, you are a brother who has contradicted the truth in this matter. Yes.
The questioner : Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : Their phrase at the beginning is that they say the methodology of the Salaf is safer.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : It means that they are not Muslims, meaning.
The Shaykh : Listen to this. Do you have a book with you now?
The Shaykh : I do not deny water or fire; I say that water is truth and fire is truth, but can I combine them? What is your opinion?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : It is not possible. How can you combine two statements, one of which says, "If you say that Allah has a real hand, you are a disbeliever?" The people of figurative interpretation say that whoever affirms a real hand for Allah is a disbeliever because he is one who ascribes a body to Allah, compares Him to creation, and denies the statement of the Exalted:
There is nothing like unto Him
ليس كمثله شيءRather, We dash the truth upon falsehood
بل نقذف بالحق على الباطلThe student:
and it smashes it
فيدمغهThe Shaykh : What? Does he accept it and make peace with it, or not?
and it smashes it
فيدمغهand it destroys it, and thereupon it departs
فيدمغه فإذا هو زاهقAnd for you is destruction from that which you describe.
ولكم الويل مما تصفونThe student: utterly destroyed.
The Shaykh :
and it destroys it, and thereupon it departs
فيدمغه فإذا هو زاهقand thereupon it departs
فإذا هو زاهقThey wish that you would soften [in your position], so they would soften [toward you].
ودوا لو تدهن فيدهنونThe questioner : Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : Their phrase at the beginning is that they say the methodology of the Salaf is safer.
The Shaykh : Yes
The questioner : It means that they are not Muslims, meaning.
The Shaykh : Listen to this. Do you have a book with you now?
