Fourth: All Muslims do not regard the muhallil (the non-staking competitor inserted into a racing wager) as something commendable; rather, many of them find that their natural disposition and their hearts reject it and deem it objectionable. Had it truly been good in Allah’s sight—indeed, a perfect expression of the justice that Allah has implanted in hearts to appreciate—then all of them would have found it good, their innate nature would have attested to it, and that same nature would have declared any contract lacking it to be repugnant, just as it testifies to the repulsiveness of oppression and gambling and to the beauty of justice and of taking wealth lawfully.

They therefore say, “We submit this matter to sound human nature, untainted by partisanship, by defending men’s opinions, or by blind imitation.”

As for your statement, “The position that dispenses with the muhallil is an aberrant view, and whoever deviates, Allah will cause him to deviate,”

its reply comes in several parts:

First: The truly aberrant view is the one whose proponent has no evidence (1) from the Book of Allah nor (2) from the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. That alone is the aberrant opinion, even if the majority of humanity were to adopt it. By contrast, any view that is substantiated by the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger ﷺ is not aberrant, even if only a single individual of the Ummah upholds it; for the mere number of those who hold a position—whether many or few—is not the standard or scale by which the truth is to be assessed (3) and weighed.