Reading and commentary on the poet's sermon: When the denier of the attributes heard that from him, he held back
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The reader: "When the denier of the attributes heard that from him, he held back, then he kept it to himself and secluded himself with his devils and his kindred"
The Shaykh : Secluded...
The reader: "And he secluded himself with his devils"
The Shaykh : Secluded, secluded
The reader: And he secluded
The Shaykh : Secluded with the alif
The reader: "With his devils and his kindred, and some of them whispered to others the adornment of speech, delusion, and the varieties of disbelief and stratagem"
The Shaykh : Deceit, and the varieties of deceit and stratagem
The reader: "And the varieties of deceit and stratagem, and they sought a matter by which they would gain the approval of their counterparts"
The Shaykh : Gain the approval... or gain the approval by it, no
The reader: "From the people of religious innovation and misguidance, and they held a session in which they plotted during its evening what Allah does not approve of in speech, and Allah is encompassing of what they do" And they refused
The Shaykh : brought
The reader: "And they brought forth in that session of theirs what they were capable of in the way of nonsense" And error and confusion
The Shaykh : And clamor
The reader: And clamor
The Shaykh : Its qaf is ghayn, clamor
The reader: "And they brought forth in that session of theirs what they were capable of in the way of nonsense, clamor, and confusion, and they sought to summon the Affirmer to the session they had established so that they would make his reception upon his arrival at them what they had fabricated of deceit and what they had contrived. So Allah, the Exalted, restrained their hands and tongues from him, and they did not dare to act against him. Allah turned their plot back into their own throats, so they did not reach him with evil. The one who is obeyed abandoned them, so they tore up the minutes they had written, and Allah turned the hearts of His awliya (close friends of Allah) and His soldiers"
The Shaykh : And His soldiers
The reader: "And His soldiers against them, from every absentee and present, and He brought out the people"
The Shaykh : The people
The reader: "And He brought out for them from the hidden places their contents, and from the empty spaces and the transfer points their treasures, and Allah strengthened the resolve of the Affirmer's covenant and steadied his heart and his tongue, and he built his structure with the Muhammadan Sunnah, so he sought to establish a session between himself and his opponents before the ruler, and he judged himself by the books of the people's former sheikhs and their preceding imams".
The Shaykh : And he judged
The reader: And he judged himself
The Shaykh : And he referred the case of himself
The reader: "And he judged himself by the books of the people's former sheikhs and their preceding imams, and that he would not seek support from the people of his madhhab (school of jurisprudence) by a book or a person, and that he had placed between himself and you the sayings" Of the one you followed
The Shaykh : Who, of the one you followed
The reader: "And that he had placed between himself and you the sayings of the one you followed, and the texts of those other than him"
The Shaykh : Other than him
The reader: "Of those other than him among the imams whom you preferred, and the Affirmer cried out with that among them until it reached" Their nearest
The Shaykh : Their nearest
The reader: "Until it reached from their nearest to their farthest, so they did not submit to that and sought exemption from his covenant, so the Affirmer demanded of them one of three paths"
The Shaykh : Of paths
The reader: "Of three paths, a debate in the session of a scholar, on the condition of knowledge and fairness, in which the texts are present"
The Shaykh : Are present
The reader: "Are present in it the Prophetic texts, the athar (reports) of the Salaf, and the books" Of the preceding imams from the people of knowledge and religion
The student: Your imams
The Shaykh : Your imams, yes
The reader: "And the books of your preceding imams from the people of knowledge and religion, so it was said to them: You have no mounts by which to race in this arena, and you have no hands to resist its knights, so he called them to"
The Shaykh : Writing to him
The reader: Writing to him
The Shaykh : And what do you have, you? For example, al-Ash'ari does not agree with them, and he is an imam for them in that, yes.
The reader: "If it is truth, he will accept it and thank them for it, and if it is otherwise, they will hear the Affirmer's answer, and the reality of what he has will become clear to them"
The Shaykh : It will become clear to you
The reader: And the reality of what he has will become clear to you
The Shaykh : Reality, active participle
The reader: "And the reality of what he has will become clear to you, so they refused that with the strongest refusal and sought exemption to the utmost extent of seeking exemption, so he called them to stand between the Corner and the Station, standing in the places of supplication, with heads uncovered, we ask Allah to send down His wrath upon the people of religious innovation and misguidance.
The Affirmer thought, and Allah knows, that the people would respond to him to this, so he prepared himself for it to the utmost extent of preparation, and he spent the night reckoning with himself" And he would present what he affirms
The Shaykh : And he would present
The reader: "And he presents what he affirms and denies to the speech of the Lord of the Worlds, and to the Sunnah of the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers, and he strips himself of every desire that contradicts the clear revelation, which leads its owner to the lowest of the low. But they did not respond to that either, and they offered excuses that indicated that these people are not among those of strong hands and keen eyes. At that point, the Affirmer rolled up his sleeves with a resolve of determination and established a session with Allah between himself and his opponent, witnessed by the near and the far, and in which the intelligent and the dull would stand upon its content. He made it a session of arbitration between the Denier who denies the attributes and the Affirmer" accused of likening Allah to creation.
The Shaykh : The one accused
The reader: "between the Denier who denies the attributes and the Affirmer" the one
The Shaykh : accused of likening Allah to creation
The reader: "The one accused of likening Allah to creation, who contested in this session by Allah and made Him the judge, and disavowed before Allah of every desire, religious innovation, and misguidance, and aligned himself with the faction of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and what his Companions were upon"
The student: ...
The Shaykh : No...
The reader: "And Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) is the one to be asked not to leave him to himself or to anything he possesses, and to grant him success in all his states for what He loves and is pleased with, for the reins of affairs are in His hands"
The Shaykh : reins
The reader: For the reins of affairs are in His hands
The Shaykh : in His hands
The reader: "For the reins of affairs are in His hands, and He desires that whoever stands upon this judgment should stand for Allah in a state of purity from his own desires" seeking the pleasure
The Shaykh : seeking
The reader: "seeking the pleasure of his Lord, then he should read it reflecting, and repeat it and present it"
The Shaykh : repeat it
The reader: "and repeat it and present it with contemplation, then judge in it by what pleases Allah and His Messenger and His believing servants, and not oppose it with cursing and abuse as the ignorant and the defiant do,"
The Shaykh : and the defiant
The reader: "as the ignorant and the defiant do. If he sees truth, he follows it and gives thanks for it, and if he sees falsehood, he returns it to its speaker and guides him to the correct path, for the truth belongs to Allah and His Messenger, and the intention is that the word of the Sunnah be the highest, striving in the path of Allah and in His cause" and Allah is with
The Shaykh : and Allah
The reader: "and Allah is with the tongue of every speaker and his heart, and He is the One who sees" upon his
The Shaykh : intention
The reader: "and He is the One who sees his intention and his earnings, and the people of denial of the divine attributes were not His close friends" and that His
The Shaykh : indeed His
The reader: "indeed His close friends are none but the righteous, the believers who believe:[At-Tawbah 9:105] " .
The Shaykh : Secluded...
The reader: "And he secluded himself with his devils"
The Shaykh : Secluded, secluded
The reader: And he secluded
The Shaykh : Secluded with the alif
The reader: "With his devils and his kindred, and some of them whispered to others the adornment of speech, delusion, and the varieties of disbelief and stratagem"
The Shaykh : Deceit, and the varieties of deceit and stratagem
The reader: "And the varieties of deceit and stratagem, and they sought a matter by which they would gain the approval of their counterparts"
The Shaykh : Gain the approval... or gain the approval by it, no
The reader: "From the people of religious innovation and misguidance, and they held a session in which they plotted during its evening what Allah does not approve of in speech, and Allah is encompassing of what they do" And they refused
The Shaykh : brought
The reader: "And they brought forth in that session of theirs what they were capable of in the way of nonsense" And error and confusion
The Shaykh : And clamor
The reader: And clamor
The Shaykh : Its qaf is ghayn, clamor
The reader: "And they brought forth in that session of theirs what they were capable of in the way of nonsense, clamor, and confusion, and they sought to summon the Affirmer to the session they had established so that they would make his reception upon his arrival at them what they had fabricated of deceit and what they had contrived. So Allah, the Exalted, restrained their hands and tongues from him, and they did not dare to act against him. Allah turned their plot back into their own throats, so they did not reach him with evil. The one who is obeyed abandoned them, so they tore up the minutes they had written, and Allah turned the hearts of His awliya (close friends of Allah) and His soldiers"
The Shaykh : And His soldiers
The reader: "And His soldiers against them, from every absentee and present, and He brought out the people"
The Shaykh : The people
The reader: "And He brought out for them from the hidden places their contents, and from the empty spaces and the transfer points their treasures, and Allah strengthened the resolve of the Affirmer's covenant and steadied his heart and his tongue, and he built his structure with the Muhammadan Sunnah, so he sought to establish a session between himself and his opponents before the ruler, and he judged himself by the books of the people's former sheikhs and their preceding imams".
The Shaykh : And he judged
The reader: And he judged himself
The Shaykh : And he referred the case of himself
The reader: "And he judged himself by the books of the people's former sheikhs and their preceding imams, and that he would not seek support from the people of his madhhab (school of jurisprudence) by a book or a person, and that he had placed between himself and you the sayings" Of the one you followed
The Shaykh : Who, of the one you followed
The reader: "And that he had placed between himself and you the sayings of the one you followed, and the texts of those other than him"
The Shaykh : Other than him
The reader: "Of those other than him among the imams whom you preferred, and the Affirmer cried out with that among them until it reached" Their nearest
The Shaykh : Their nearest
The reader: "Until it reached from their nearest to their farthest, so they did not submit to that and sought exemption from his covenant, so the Affirmer demanded of them one of three paths"
The Shaykh : Of paths
The reader: "Of three paths, a debate in the session of a scholar, on the condition of knowledge and fairness, in which the texts are present"
The Shaykh : Are present
The reader: "Are present in it the Prophetic texts, the athar (reports) of the Salaf, and the books" Of the preceding imams from the people of knowledge and religion
The student: Your imams
The Shaykh : Your imams, yes
The reader: "And the books of your preceding imams from the people of knowledge and religion, so it was said to them: You have no mounts by which to race in this arena, and you have no hands to resist its knights, so he called them to"
The Shaykh : Writing to him
The reader: Writing to him
The Shaykh : And what do you have, you? For example, al-Ash'ari does not agree with them, and he is an imam for them in that, yes.
The reader: "If it is truth, he will accept it and thank them for it, and if it is otherwise, they will hear the Affirmer's answer, and the reality of what he has will become clear to them"
The Shaykh : It will become clear to you
The reader: And the reality of what he has will become clear to you
The Shaykh : Reality, active participle
The reader: "And the reality of what he has will become clear to you, so they refused that with the strongest refusal and sought exemption to the utmost extent of seeking exemption, so he called them to stand between the Corner and the Station, standing in the places of supplication, with heads uncovered, we ask Allah to send down His wrath upon the people of religious innovation and misguidance.
The Affirmer thought, and Allah knows, that the people would respond to him to this, so he prepared himself for it to the utmost extent of preparation, and he spent the night reckoning with himself" And he would present what he affirms
The Shaykh : And he would present
The reader: "And he presents what he affirms and denies to the speech of the Lord of the Worlds, and to the Sunnah of the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers, and he strips himself of every desire that contradicts the clear revelation, which leads its owner to the lowest of the low. But they did not respond to that either, and they offered excuses that indicated that these people are not among those of strong hands and keen eyes. At that point, the Affirmer rolled up his sleeves with a resolve of determination and established a session with Allah between himself and his opponent, witnessed by the near and the far, and in which the intelligent and the dull would stand upon its content. He made it a session of arbitration between the Denier who denies the attributes and the Affirmer" accused of likening Allah to creation.
The Shaykh : The one accused
The reader: "between the Denier who denies the attributes and the Affirmer" the one
The Shaykh : accused of likening Allah to creation
The reader: "The one accused of likening Allah to creation, who contested in this session by Allah and made Him the judge, and disavowed before Allah of every desire, religious innovation, and misguidance, and aligned himself with the faction of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and what his Companions were upon"
The student: ...
The Shaykh : No...
The reader: "And Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) is the one to be asked not to leave him to himself or to anything he possesses, and to grant him success in all his states for what He loves and is pleased with, for the reins of affairs are in His hands"
The Shaykh : reins
The reader: For the reins of affairs are in His hands
The Shaykh : in His hands
The reader: "For the reins of affairs are in His hands, and He desires that whoever stands upon this judgment should stand for Allah in a state of purity from his own desires" seeking the pleasure
The Shaykh : seeking
The reader: "seeking the pleasure of his Lord, then he should read it reflecting, and repeat it and present it"
The Shaykh : repeat it
The reader: "and repeat it and present it with contemplation, then judge in it by what pleases Allah and His Messenger and His believing servants, and not oppose it with cursing and abuse as the ignorant and the defiant do,"
The Shaykh : and the defiant
The reader: "as the ignorant and the defiant do. If he sees truth, he follows it and gives thanks for it, and if he sees falsehood, he returns it to its speaker and guides him to the correct path, for the truth belongs to Allah and His Messenger, and the intention is that the word of the Sunnah be the highest, striving in the path of Allah and in His cause" and Allah is with
The Shaykh : and Allah
The reader: "and Allah is with the tongue of every speaker and his heart, and He is the One who sees" upon his
The Shaykh : intention
The reader: "and He is the One who sees his intention and his earnings, and the people of denial of the divine attributes were not His close friends" and that His
The Shaykh : indeed His
The reader: "indeed His close friends are none but the righteous, the believers who believe: