He clarified through it and through what was revealed to Him of the Book and the wisdom, everything that contains the well-being of the servants and the rectification of their conditions in their religion and their worldly affairs.
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The Shaykh :"He clarified through it" "He clarified through it and through what was revealed to Him of the Book and the wisdom, everything that contains the well-being of the servants and the rectification of their conditions in their religion and their worldly affairs" He clarified from
The student: Allah
The Shaykh : Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and this is a necessary consequence of the fact that He (the Exalted) made things clear by the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and by what He revealed to him of the Book, which is the Qur'an, and the Wisdom, which is the Sunnah. He made clear everything that brings well-being to the servants and rectifies their conditions in their religion and their worldly affairs, and so on. This is a matter known by anyone who follows the message of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): that everything people need for the well-being of their religion and their worldly affairs has been made clear by the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Abu Dharr said, "Listen to this phrase: So his saying Sahih Ibn Hibban 3:5 means that he made clear every thing. Then Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) recited to this polytheist man: Bulugh al-Maram 97 "And the Messenger taught us how to put on our clothes, how to take them off, how to stand, how to sit, and how to sleep? There is nothing we need that he did not make clear." Then, when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned something and it became clear that the benefit lay in the opposite, he changed his ruling. A man would climb up to the male date palm, which is the male tree, and bring down its tassels to place them in the tassels of the female palm, and then it would be pollinated and produce good dates. Sunan an-Nasa'i 4590Sahih (Darussalam) And he found that they were exerting themselves by climbing up and down twice, once for the male and once for the female. He said: His intention with this was to be kind and make things easy for them. And he permitted them to pollinate the dates. Did he retract what he said, or did he not retract what he said? He did not retract it, because he only makes clear to people what they need and what benefits them. Whatever people need, he informed them of it. And Allah the Exalted said in His Book: [An-Nahl 16:89] Everything is made clear in the Qur'an.
It was mentioned to me, or I read long ago, a translation of the famous Egyptian Shaykh Muhammad 'Abdu. He was in Paris, and there was a restaurant that included both Muslims and Christians, and everyone, because it is a land of disbelief. A man from the Christians came to him and said, "O Shaykh, your book contains this verse:[An-Nahl 16:89] If you are a believer in that, tell me how this food is made, which is a sandwich, rice, meat, and other things. Where is this found in the Qur'an? Is this present?" He said, "Yes, this is present in the Qur'an." This Christian wanted to say that the Qur'an is a cookbook that teaches people how to cook. He said, "It is present in the Qur'an." He said, "Where is it?" So he called the owner of the restaurant and said, "Come, how did you make this food?" He said, "I made it thus and thus," and he described the preparation of the ingredients and how to cook them and how to fix them. He said, "This is in the Qur'an." Muhammad 'Abdu said, "This is in the Qur'an." The Christian was astonished. He said, "Allah says: [An-Nahl 16:43]" And this is a rule in everything, specifically in religious knowledge. Whatever we do not know, we ask those who are specialists in it. So this is a direction: we directed the Qur'an to mean that if we do not know something, we ask the people of specialization in it. So we asked this man, and he informed us, and the disbeliever was confounded; he could not say anything.
So our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) taught people everything. Did he teach them what they should believe regarding Allah (Mighty and Majestic), His names, attributes, and actions? The answer is yes. There is no doubt that this is the most important thing he taught them and the most obligatory. How could he teach a man to sit on the toilet in a specific way and not teach them what the attributes of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) are? For this reason, the Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) said regarding the people of tafwid (delegation of meaning): the people of tafwid say: "When a verse or hadith regarding the attributes of Allah comes to you, delegate it; do not speak about it ever, and be with it like an unlettered person." He said (may Allah have mercy on him): "The saying of these people is among the worst of the sayings of the people of religious innovation and atheism." He even said that the philosophers did not gain control over the Muslims except through such a saying. When these people said, "We are unlettered regarding the meanings of the verses of attributes and their hadiths," they said, "Come on, you are unlettered." The meaning of unlettered is ignorant. They said, "We know more than you. So we will interpret the verses and hadiths as we wish, because we say that we know. We know that this is the meaning; we know that this is its meaning." And it is distorted, without doubt. But the one who says, "I know the meaning," is better than the one who says, "I do not know," because the one who says, "I do not know," has declared himself ignorant. And this person claims to be a scholar. So he says, "Therefore, knowledge is with me, since you are ignorant of the meanings of these texts. So knowledge is with me, and you cannot refute me, because the most you have is to say, 'I do not know.' And the one who does not know has no weapon. So if you do not know, then I know that the intended meaning is such and such." Do you understand, people? Yet, in the books of those who do not know the methodology of the Salaf in its true sense, it is found that the Salaf are the people of tafwid. And so it came in their speech that the people of the Sunnah are of two types: people of tafwid and people of ta'wil (interpretation). And by people of ta'wil, they mean the people of tahrif (distortion), who say: meaning "he took control," [Al-Ma'idah 5:64] "Indeed, your Lord is the Bestower of good," "The reward of your Lord," and the like. They say, "The people of the Sunnah are of two types: people of tafwid and people of ta'wil." And this is a lie. The people of the Sunnah are not people of tafwid, but people of knowledge and understanding. However, they delegate what they cannot reach knowledge of, which is the modality (kayfiyyah). They say, for example, "He established Himself over the Throne." We know that the meaning of "established" is "rose above" the Throne, but how that was, we do not know. And this is the limit of proper conduct with Allah (Mighty and Majestic): that what Allah does not inform you of regarding the matters of the unseen, you must delegate its knowledge to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). So the conclusion is that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) taught his Ummah everything they need in matters of their religion and their worldly affairs. Even if he spoke a word that he thought was appropriate, and then it became clear that it was not, he retracted it, as in the story of what? Pollination. But in this context, some scholars, especially the contemporary late scholars, took from his saying: what the text does not support. They said that this includes dealing with worldly affairs and includes legal rulings, meaning that we know how to make a door, how to build a building, how to construct the... yes, the... what we construct of palaces and the like. We know this, and we also know the ruling on these things. So they said, if riba (usury or interest) is the cause of raising the economy of the country, then it is permissible, falling under his saying: And this is a mistake, because the rulings refer to whom? To Allah and His Messenger. [Ash-Shuraa 42:10] But crafts, and how to make this, and how to turn from one aspect to another, yes, we are more knowledgeable about that. For this reason, you find a person who does not know the saying or the religious knowledge, but knows how to make this loudspeaker, and a scholar, one of the most prominent scholars in the East, who does not know how to operate this sound, this device. Is that not so? Good. The first is more knowledgeable about worldly affairs than the scholar, and the scholar is more knowledgeable about the Shari'ah than that. So the conclusion is that some people expand the implications of words until they attribute to the word what it does not support, either out of ignorance or out of desire. And Allah is the Helper. Yes.
The student: Allah
The Shaykh : Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and this is a necessary consequence of the fact that He (the Exalted) made things clear by the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) and by what He revealed to him of the Book, which is the Qur'an, and the Wisdom, which is the Sunnah. He made clear everything that brings well-being to the servants and rectifies their conditions in their religion and their worldly affairs, and so on. This is a matter known by anyone who follows the message of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): that everything people need for the well-being of their religion and their worldly affairs has been made clear by the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Abu Dharr said, "Listen to this phrase:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) has passed away, and there is no bird that flaps its wings in the sky except that knowledge of it was mentioned to us.
لقد توفي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم وما طائر يقلب جناحيه في السماء إلا ذكر لنا منه علماAnd there is no bird that flies with its wings in the sky.
وما طائر يطير بجناحيه في السماءAnd a man from among the polytheists said to Salman al-Farisi (may Allah be pleased with him), “Your Messenger has made things clear to you, even down to the act of relieving oneself.” He said, “Yes, he taught us everything.”
وقال رجل من المشركين لسلمان الفارسي رضي الله عنه لقد بين لكم رسولكم حتى الخراءة قال نعم كل شي علمناforbade us to face the Qiblah when defecating or urinating, or to clean ourselves using the right hand, or to clean ourselves with less than three stones, or to clean ourselves with dung or a bone
لقد نهانا أن نستقبل القبلة بغائط أو بول أو أن نستنجي باليمين أو أن نستنجي برجيع أو عظمHe arrived in al-Madinah and found the people pollinating the date palms.
قدم المدينة ووجد الناس يلقحون النخلWhen the Prophet (ﷺ) came to Al-Madinah
لما قدم النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم المدينةIf you had left this
لو أنكم تركتم هذاIf you left this off, thinking that it was a revelation from Allah, they left it off. When they left it off, the fruit became dry and spoiled. When this happened, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “You know best the affairs of your worldly life.”
لو تركتم هذا فظنوا أن هذا وحي من الله تركوه فلما تركوه صار الثمر شيصا يعني فسد فلما حصل هذا قال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أنتم أعلم بأمور دنياكمAnd We have sent down to you the Book as clarification for all things
ونزلنا عليك الكتاب تبيانا لكل شيءIt was mentioned to me, or I read long ago, a translation of the famous Egyptian Shaykh Muhammad 'Abdu. He was in Paris, and there was a restaurant that included both Muslims and Christians, and everyone, because it is a land of disbelief. A man from the Christians came to him and said, "O Shaykh, your book contains this verse:
And We have sent down to you the Book as clarification for all things
ونزلنا عليك الكتاب تبيانا لكل شيءSo ask the people of the message if you do not know.
فاسألوا أهل الذكر إن كنتم لا تعلمونSo our Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) taught people everything. Did he teach them what they should believe regarding Allah (Mighty and Majestic), His names, attributes, and actions? The answer is yes. There is no doubt that this is the most important thing he taught them and the most obligatory. How could he teach a man to sit on the toilet in a specific way and not teach them what the attributes of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) are? For this reason, the Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) said regarding the people of tafwid (delegation of meaning): the people of tafwid say: "When a verse or hadith regarding the attributes of Allah comes to you, delegate it; do not speak about it ever, and be with it like an unlettered person." He said (may Allah have mercy on him): "The saying of these people is among the worst of the sayings of the people of religious innovation and atheism." He even said that the philosophers did not gain control over the Muslims except through such a saying. When these people said, "We are unlettered regarding the meanings of the verses of attributes and their hadiths," they said, "Come on, you are unlettered." The meaning of unlettered is ignorant. They said, "We know more than you. So we will interpret the verses and hadiths as we wish, because we say that we know. We know that this is the meaning; we know that this is its meaning." And it is distorted, without doubt. But the one who says, "I know the meaning," is better than the one who says, "I do not know," because the one who says, "I do not know," has declared himself ignorant. And this person claims to be a scholar. So he says, "Therefore, knowledge is with me, since you are ignorant of the meanings of these texts. So knowledge is with me, and you cannot refute me, because the most you have is to say, 'I do not know.' And the one who does not know has no weapon. So if you do not know, then I know that the intended meaning is such and such." Do you understand, people? Yet, in the books of those who do not know the methodology of the Salaf in its true sense, it is found that the Salaf are the people of tafwid. And so it came in their speech that the people of the Sunnah are of two types: people of tafwid and people of ta'wil (interpretation). And by people of ta'wil, they mean the people of tahrif (distortion), who say:
