The student’s reading from the author’s statement: “And the people of imagination do not require much in refuting them, because people’s aversion to them is known and apparent.
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The reader: “And people’s aversion to them is known and apparent.
As for the people of figurative interpretation: they are the theologians of the Jahmiyyah, the Mu’tazilah, and their followers. The reality of their doctrine is that the texts of the attributes brought by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) were not intended in their apparent meaning, but rather the intended meaning is meanings that contradict the apparent, which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) knew, but he left them for people to deduce with their minds, then they try to direct the apparent meanings of the texts to them. His purpose in this was to test their minds, and to increase the reward for the hardship they undergo in trying to divert speech from its apparent meaning and apply it to anomalies of language and strange expressions. These are the most disordered and contradictory of people, because they have no firm foundation that can be interpreted, and what cannot be .
The Shaykh : Because they, because they, because they have no.
The reader: “firm foundation that can be interpreted”.
The Shaykh : In what is possible, in what is possible.
The reader: “Because they have no firm foundation in what is possible to interpret and what is not, nor in determining the intended meaning.
Then, most of the meanings they claim are known from the state of the speaker and the context of his speech to be not what he intended in that specific address which he interpreted”.
The Shaykh : Which they interpreted.
The reader: “Which they interpreted, and these used to appear to be defending the Sunnah while concealing themselves with transcendence, but Allah the Exalted exposed their veils by refuting their doubts and refuting their arguments. Indeed, the Shaykh al-Islam and others”
The Shaykh : And others.
The reader: “and others engaged in refuting them more than others, because being deceived by them is more common than being deceived by others, for”
The Shaykh : For.
The reader: “for what they appear to be doing in defending the Sunnah”.
As for the people of figurative interpretation: they are the theologians of the Jahmiyyah, the Mu’tazilah, and their followers. The reality of their doctrine is that the texts of the attributes brought by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) were not intended in their apparent meaning, but rather the intended meaning is meanings that contradict the apparent, which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) knew, but he left them for people to deduce with their minds, then they try to direct the apparent meanings of the texts to them. His purpose in this was to test their minds, and to increase the reward for the hardship they undergo in trying to divert speech from its apparent meaning and apply it to anomalies of language and strange expressions. These are the most disordered and contradictory of people, because they have no firm foundation that can be interpreted, and what cannot be .
The Shaykh : Because they, because they, because they have no.
The reader: “firm foundation that can be interpreted”.
The Shaykh : In what is possible, in what is possible.
The reader: “Because they have no firm foundation in what is possible to interpret and what is not, nor in determining the intended meaning.
Then, most of the meanings they claim are known from the state of the speaker and the context of his speech to be not what he intended in that specific address which he interpreted”.
The Shaykh : Which they interpreted.
The reader: “Which they interpreted, and these used to appear to be defending the Sunnah while concealing themselves with transcendence, but Allah the Exalted exposed their veils by refuting their doubts and refuting their arguments. Indeed, the Shaykh al-Islam and others”
The Shaykh : And others.
The reader: “and others engaged in refuting them more than others, because being deceived by them is more common than being deceived by others, for”
The Shaykh : For.
The reader: “for what they appear to be doing in defending the Sunnah”.