A critical analysis of the Modernists and the Hadeeth ... - Islam House
A critical analysis of the Modernists and the Hadeeth ... - Islam House
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An Important note on <strong>the</strong> harmony between<br />
<strong>and</strong><br />
“Contradiction between a clear text <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Book<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sunnah <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> sound Aql cannot be<br />
imagined <strong>and</strong> is in fact impossible. So if <strong>the</strong>re<br />
appears to be a contradiction between <strong>the</strong> two <strong>the</strong>n<br />
<strong>the</strong> Revelation is given precedence <strong>and</strong> is decisive<br />
since it comes from <strong>the</strong> One, Who is infallible,<br />
whereas <strong>the</strong> Aql (intellect) <strong>of</strong> a person is not<br />
infallible. Indeed, Aql is <strong>the</strong> deficient opinion <strong>of</strong><br />
humans that is open to misconception, error,<br />
forgetfulness, desires <strong>and</strong> ignorance.”<br />
[end quote from, 'The Principles <strong>of</strong> Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah in<br />
deriving Aqeedah' by Nasir al-Aql]<br />
Philosophical groups who assumed that religious texts contradict<br />
reason, tried to mediate between reason <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> transmitted reports.<br />
This led <strong>the</strong>m to force reason into fields where it had no place. So <strong>the</strong>y<br />
came up with false rulings that led <strong>the</strong>m to say that <strong>the</strong>y did not know<br />
what <strong>the</strong> texts meant <strong>and</strong> that only Allah knows <strong>the</strong>ir meaning, or to<br />
misinterpret <strong>the</strong>m altoge<strong>the</strong>r, like <strong>the</strong> philosophical groups who went<br />
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