Manners regarding the Qur`an and Sunnah

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The Ocean of Difference between true Ahlus-Sunnah and Ahlul Bid’ah in their manners regarding the Qur`an and Sunnah
In refuting Ahlul Bid’ah who twist the text in distorting Allaah’s Attributes, Shaikh Saalih al-Fawzaan (hafidhahullaah) said in his highly beneficial explanation of Lum’atul I’tiqaad:
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It is obligatory for these misguided people to accuse their own intellects and understanding and not to accuse the Book and the Sunnah. For their intellects and understanding are the location of accusation and deficiency, whereas the Qur`an and Sunnah are but Wahy (revelation) from Allaah, the Hakeem (All-Wise), the Hameed (One deserving of all praise).
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The Qur`aan is not approached by falsehood from in front of it, nor from behind it; it is revelation sent down from Hakeem (One who is All Wise), the Hameed (One deserving of all praise). Soorah al Fussilat (41) aayah 42
It is obligatory upon the servant to submit to the Speech of Allaah and the Speech of His Messenger (salallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). And if something from it is a problem for him, then let him accuse his own intellect and understanding, and not accuse the texts of deficiency or lack of clarity, or any other accusation, stating that it is only through his false intellectual principles and principles of logic that Yaqin (certainty) will come about.
Shaikh Rabee’ ibn Hadde Al-Madkhalee (hafidhahullaah), in his highly beneficial book [url=http://sunnahpublishing.net/store/index.php?main_page=index]The Status of the Messenger and his Rights[/url], relayed this beautiful statement of Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (rahimahullaah) from his book Madaarijus-Saalikeen:
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As for the mannerisims that should be utilized with the Messenger of Allaah (salallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), then indeed the Qur`aan is filled with descriptions of it, and at the base of it is the obligation of fully submitting to him, obeying his orders, and accepting and believing what he has informed you of without weakening it with opposing false views so as to make it ‘understandable,’ and without weakening it with doubt and skepticism, and without preferring the opinions of men and the waste of their intellects over it. …
Shaikh Rabee’ also relayed this insightful advice from Ibnul Qayyim (rahimahullaah):
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…Nor should they stop observing his orders and believing in his reports because of their preference to the statements of their teacher or their Imaam or their madhhab or their group or whosoever they elevate. So if he is allowed to, he obeys his orders and accepts his reports. If this is not the case, then if he seeks blamelessness, he abandons his orders and his reports, and entrusts it to them (i.e/ his imaam, teacher, group), or he distorts it from its proper meaning, and then claims that it is interpretation and explanation; that they are interpreting and explaining it. 1
Indeed, if the slave was to meet his Lord with every sin, with the exclusion of nothing other than committing Shirk with Allaah, it would be better for him than to meet his Lord in this aforementioned condition.
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One day, I spoke to one of the leaders of these people and said to him:
‘I Ask you, by Allaah, if it was decreed that the Messenger of Allaah (salallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) was alive and with us, and we witnessed his speech and sermons, would it be obligated upon us to follow him, without referring it to the opinions, statements and madhhab of other than him, or do we not obey him until we refer what we heard from him to the opinions and intellects of others?’ He answered, ‘Rather it would be obligatory to hasten to obedience without returning to other than him.’
I said, ‘So what has removed this obligation from us today and what has replaced it?’
So he placed his finger upon his mouth and remained pale-faced and confused and did not utter a word.
1 Shaikh Rabee’s note: With great sorrow, this is what many sects do with many aspects of the ‘aqeedah and the Sharee’ah.