al-Taliqat al-Mukhtasarah ala Matn al-Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah - Salih Al-Fawzan - (81)

realize that no one remains secure in his religion except the one who submits to Allah and to His Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him.

The Book and the Sunnah are the arbiters over minds and opinions (1).

To “submit” means to accept whatever has come from Allah and His Messenger ﷺ, to believe in it exactly as it has come, without meddling with distortion or forced interpretation. That is the essence of true submission.

Imām al-Shāfiʿī, may Allah have mercy on him, said: “I believe in Allah and in what is in the Book of Allah according to the intent of Allah; and I believe in the Messenger of Allah and in what has come from the Messenger of Allah according to the intent of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ”–that is, not according to caprice, distortion, or the utterances of men (2).

Whoever submits, yields, and refers whatever confuses him—whose meaning or modality he does not know—back to the One who knows it, namely Allah, then such a person

(1) Aisha reports that the Prophet said: “The most hateful of men to Allah is the obstinate, argumentative person.” Recorded by al-Bukhari, no. 2457, and Muslim, no. 2668. (2) Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Umar al-Razi said: The furthest reach of human intellect is but a shackle, And the utmost effort of all people ends in misguidance. Our souls remain estranged within our bodies, And the sum of our worldly share is hurt and affliction. From all the research we pursued throughout our lives We gained nothing but “he said” and “they said.” See: al-Subki, Tabaqat al-Shafiiyyah, 8:96.

فإنه ما سَلِمَ في دينه إلا من سلّم لله ﷿ ولرسوله صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وسلم: ــ الكتاب والسنة يحكمان على العقول والأفكار (١) . ومعنى (سلَّم) أي: قَبِلَ ما جاء عن الله، وعن رسوله ﷺ وآمن به على ما جاء، من غير أن يتدخل بتحريفه وتأويله، هذا معنى التسليم. قال الإمام الشافعي رحمه الله تعالى: "آمنت بالله وبما جاء في كتاب الله على مراد الله، وآمنت برسول الله وبما جاء عن رسول الله على مراد رسول الله ﷺ" أي: لا على الهوى والتحريف وأقوال الناس (٢) . من سَلَّم وانقاد وردّ ما اشتبه عليه، ولم يعرف معناه أول لم يعرف كيفيته، رده إلى عالمه، وهو الله، ﷾، فالذي

(١) فعن عائشة ﵂ عن النبي ﷺ قال: "إن أبغض الرجال إلى الله الألدُّ الخصم" ...أخرجه البخاري رقم (٢٤٥٧) ومسلم رقم (٢٦٦٨) . (٢) قال أبو عبد الله محمد بن عمر الرازي: ...نهاية إقدام العقول عقال *** وغاية سعي العالمين ضلالُ ...وأرواحنا في وحشة من جسومنا *** وحاصل دنيانا أذى ووبال ...ولم نستفد من بحثنا طول عمرنا *** سوى أن جمعنا فيه قيل وقالوا ...انظر: طبقات الشافعية للسبكي (٨/٩٦) .